![]() ![]() ![]() A year later, inspired by the raw talent and perseverance of the inner-city students he met while teaching at a SUNY-run extension program in Rochester, he founded his first dance company. In 1969, he was invited to join the faculty of the State University of New York at Brockport. In Detroit, he directed the All-City Dance Company and choreographed and danced as a principal soloist with two other companies. Over the course of a decade, he studied with Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Mary Hinkson and José Limon, and performed with Pearl Primus and Lavania Williams in New York. He had almost completed the master’s program before concluding that dance was his true calling. In 1960, he came to the United States to earn an undergraduate degree in psychology at Detroit’s Wayne State University but continued dancing. The son of an Oxford-educated father and Jamaica’s chief education officer, he began performing with Ivy Baxter’s Jamaican National Dance Company while he was still in high school. ![]() Garth Fagan was born in Jamaica, West Indies in 1940. Known around the world for his groundbreaking choreography of Broadway’s The Lion King, Garth Fagan is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic and original artists working in the field today - architect of a distinct new movement style, creator of over 75 works for theater and the concert stage, inspired teacher, and the man who transformed Rochester, NY into an incubator for world-class contemporary dance. ![]()
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