Garth Fagan Dance to Bring Experimental Hybrid of Afro-Caribbean Movement, Ballet to BMC

Tony Award-winning choreographer Garth Fagan's eponymously-named dance company brings its distinctive style, which blends Afro-Caribbean movement and energy with the speed and precision of ballet and the experimentation of the post-moderns, to Bryn Mawr College's Goodhart Theater at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 15, opening the 2006-07 Performing Arts Series.

Single tickets are $18; senior tickets $15; student tickets, $10; children 12 and under, $5. Admission is free for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students, faculty and staff. Subscription packages offer discounts, mix-and-match ticket flexibility and priority seating. For tickets and information, call the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.

Garth Fagan Dance is among the world's most acclaimed modern dance companies and has been featured on PBS'“Great Performances – Dance in America” and in performances worldwide.

"The ... Fagan dancers move as if they were born speaking Fagan's language and they love the feel of it in their bodies," wrote Elizabeth Kendall in Vogue. Fagan's dances "share with jazz a spacious ease and rhythmic verve," said Newsday.

Founder and Artistic Director Garth Fagan may be best known for his choreography of Broadway's “The Lion King,” for which he received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Choreography. He is widely recognized by dance critics as an original. Based in Rochester, N.Y., Garth Fagan Dance is celebrating its 35th anniversary, having won acclaim over the years in major festivals worldwide and in frequent seasons at New York's Joyce Theater. For their individuality, unmannered approach and virtuosity, the performers have earned top honors, including five "Bessies" (New York Performance Awards) and the New York Governor's Arts Award.

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