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GARTH FAGAN
GARTH FAGAN (Choreographer) is the recipient of the 1998 Tony® Award as well as the Drama Desk Award, the Astaire Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award (London, UK) for his work with The Lion King. Mr. Fagan was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and for more than 35 years has toured the world with Garth Fagan Dance. On television the company has appeared on “Great Performances,” “The Tonight Show” and the Academy Awards. Mr. Fagan forged his own dance language and technique, drawing from modern dance, Afro-Caribbean and ballet. He has choreographed for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Jose Limon Company and others. He directed and choreographed Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie at the Kennedy Center. A distinguished professor emeritus at SUNY Brockport, he has received honors including the 2001 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, a Bessie Award, a George Eastman Medal and a Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow.