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GARTH FAGAN DANCE, now in its 38th season, is at the top of its profession. The company’s dancers are renowned for their individuality, unmannered approach, and virtuosity. Their distinctive movement quality comes from years of training in Fagan Technique, the teaching method developed by Garth Fagan, along with his own dance vocabulary. Throughout its 37-year history the company has had five winners of 'Bessie' Awards in its ranks: Garth Fagan, Norwood Pennewell, Steve Humphrey, Natalie Rogers and Sharon Skepple The troupe has performed throughout the world and celebrated its 15th anniversary in Harare, Zimbabwe. Foreign tours have included, a 13-city tour of the Netherlands, and appearances at France's Maison de la Danse, Turkey's Istanbul Festival, the New Zealand International Arts Festival, Germany's Internationales Tanzfest N.R.W., Switzerland's Basel Tanz, the Israel Festival in Jerusalem, the Vienna Festival-Tanz, and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. In 1993, Garth Fagan Dance went on a national tour with the Wynton Marsalis Septet performing Fagan's critically acclaimed full-evening length work Griot New York, which aired worldwide on the PBS Great Performances/Dance in America series in the spring of 1995. They have performed at Jacob’s Pillow, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, American Dance Festival and Spoleto USA, with yearly seasons at The Joyce Theater in New York City. In 2004 Garth Fagan Dance was one of four dance companies performing in Jazz in Motion, part of the opening celebratory events at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center; they returned in the fall of 2005 for their 35th Anniversary season.
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