Garth Fagan
Gawain Garth Fagan ( May 3, 1940 in Kingston, Jamaica ) is a Jamaican dancer and choreographer, among other things, the Tony Award received for best choreography for his choreography in the Broadway musical The Lion King in 1998.
Life
Fagan took as a teenager on a tour of Latin America with the Jamaican National Dance under the direction of Ivy Baxter and Rex Nettleford. Later, he studied dance at various colleges in the U.S. and was thereafter dancer and later choreographer with various dance companies based in Detroit.
In 1970 he became a lecturer at the State University of New York at Brockport, and soon began with the training of untrained urban youth near Rochester. The resulting therefrom The Bottom of the Bucket But ... Dance Theatre was renamed in the early 1980s in Bucket Dance Theatre, before it assumed its present name Garth Fagan Dance.
He developed from the youth a disciplined, professional dance ensemble, which was characterized by its " Fagan - style ", a mix of modern dance and jazz dance with other influences Afro-Caribbean dances and classical ballet. In addition, he was at times also a choreographer and stage director for other dance companies.
For his choreography in the musical The Lion King, he received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Choreography. In addition, he received the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography and the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer.
In 2008 he took part with his Garth Fagan Dance Ensemble at the Movimentos, an annual that takes place in Wolfsburg major international festival for contemporary dance and culture in Europe.
External links and sources
- Garth Fagan Dance ( Official Website )
- Garth Fagan at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0 550 10051 2, p 509
- Choreographer ( modern dance )
- Ballet Dancers
- Dance teacher
- Dance Theatre
- University teachers ( State University of New York)
- Jamaican
- Born in 1940
- Man