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‘Lion King’ choreographer comes to Austin
For more than three decades, Jamaica-born dancer has been crafting a singular style of dance sourced in many origins: the torso-centered movement and energy of Afro-Caribbean dance, the speed and precision of ballet and the rule-breaking experimentation of the social and street dance.
That singularity netted Fagan a Tony Award for his choreography in Disney’s “The Lion King.”
Now, his Rochester, NY-based company comes to Austin.
Garth Fagan Dance performs at the Long Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18. Go to www.TheLongCenter.org for tix and info.
“The dancers he has trained,” writes Ballet Review, “are virtuosi, no doubt about it, and fearless too, able to sustain long adagio balances, to change direction in mid-air, to vary the dynamic of a turn, to stop on a dime.”
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