Dance artist Garth Fagan

Garth Fagan

Living place: Jamaica

Birthday: 3-5-1940 (84 years old)

Global rank: #72665

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Who is Dance artist Garth Fagan?
Best known for founding Rochester, New York's Garth Fagan Dance company, this Jamaican-born choreographer is known for his very personal work in Afro-Caribbean dance; modern dancing; communicative dance; and ballet genres. He received the 1998 Tony Award for his choreography for The Lion King.
He taught for many years at the State University of New York, Brockport.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After performing in his early years with the Jamaica National Dance Company, he earned a degree in psychology from Wayne State University in Michigan, USA. He founded Garth Fagan Dance in the early 1970s, initially. named under Bucket's company BUT... Dance Theater .

Family life info

A native of Kingston, Jamaica, he was raised as the son of S. W. Fagan and Louise Walker. In the late 1970s, he choreographed a work that told, through dance, the story of the decline and eventual end of his marriage.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Dance artist Garth Fagan?
Named after one of the Dance Heritage Alliance's "American Treasure Irreplaceable Dance" Fagan choreographed working for such well-known companies as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Harlem Dance Theatre.

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When was Dance artist Garth Fagan born?
Garth Fagan birthday 3-5-1940 (at the age of 84).
Where is Dance artist Garth Fagan's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Garth Fagan was born in . is a Dance artist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Garth Fagan's global rank is 72665 and whose rank is 765 in list of famous Dance artist.
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Events in 1940 and 3-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Garth Fagan

  • Winston Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister.
  • Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico.
  • Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania annexed by U.S.S.R.
  • Hitler invades Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.
  • Lascaux caves with Cro-Magnon art discovered by French schoolboy.

Birthday Garth Fagan (3-5) in history

  • Day 3-5 year 1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.
  • Day 3-5 year 1948: The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property.
  • Day 3-5 year 1979: Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.
  • Day 3-5 year 1986: At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.
  • Day 3-5 year 1999: Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.
  • Day 3-5 year 2001: The United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year.
  • Day 3-5 year 2003: New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.
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