Garth Fagan
Gawain Garth Fagan , CD , (* 3. May 1940 in Kingston , Jamaica ) is a Jamaican dancer and choreographer known for his choreography in the Broadway - Musical The Lion King in 1998 including the Tony Award for best choreography received.
Life
As a teenager, Garth Fagan toured Latin America with the Jamaican National Dance under the direction of Ivy Baxter and Rex Nettleford . He later studied dance at various colleges in the USA and was then a dancer and later a choreographer with various Detroit- based dance companies .
In 1970 he became a lecturer at the State University of New York at Brockport and soon after began training untrained urban youth near Rochester . The resulting The Bottom of the Bucket But ... Dance Theater was renamed Bucket Dance Theater in the early 1980s , before it took its current name Garth Fagan Dance .
He developed a disciplined, professional dance ensemble from the young people, which was particularly characterized by his "Fagan style", a mixture of modern dance and jazz dance with further influences from Afro-Caribbean dances and classical ballet . In addition, he was at times choreographer and stage director for other dance companies.
In 1998 he received the Tony Award for best choreography for his choreography in the musical The Lion King . He also received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography in 1998 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theater Choreographer in 2000 .
In 2008 he and his Garth Fagan Dance Ensemble took part in the Movimentos , an important international festival for contemporary dance and culture in Europe that takes place annually in Wolfsburg .
literature
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary , Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0550 10051 2 , p. 509
Web links and sources
- Garth Fagan Dance (Official Website) (English)
- Garth Fagan in theInternet Movie Database(English)
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SURNAME | Fagan, Garth |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fagan, Gawain Garth (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jamaican dancer, choreographer and dance teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kingston , Jamaica |