Garth Fagan Dance’s 2021 Rochester Fringe performance features new-ish choreography and some even newer dancers for its 50th anniversary season.
Norwood Pennewell
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Dance review: Garth Fagan debuts new works at Nazareth College
Garth Fagan and his dancers are pushing their own boundaries by pioneering new works that encourage audiences to look at cultural and societal issues through the lens of movement.
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Dance review: Garth Fagan home season
Garth Fagan Dance premiered two pieces to an appreciative audience Wednesday night at Nazareth College’s Arts Center during the opening of its 2016 home season. Both pieces — Fagan’s “In Conflict” and Norwood Pennewell’s “A Moderate Cease” — were well-received, albeit different in sensibility. Pennewell’s “A Moderate Cease,” the sixth piece he has choreographed for […]
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Casey reviews Garth Fagan Dance
Garth Fagan Dance performed in its Chestnut Street studio on Friday night as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival, showcasing Fagan’s latest work and premiering Norwood Pennewell’s fifth piece for the company. Watching the Rochester-based, internationally-acclaimed company dance in the same place its members rehearse, create, and sweat intensifies and personalizes the performance. It’s also […]
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Dance Review: Garth Fagan’s home season opener
Garth Fagan Dance again had Rochester on its feet, applauding in unabashed awe and appreciation, during the opening night of the company’s home season at Nazareth College Performing Arts Center, Wednesday evening. Celebration seemed to be a strong tenet in several of the pieces performed — that Fagan-esque shout-out to the deep currents of physical, […]
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Casey reviews “Garth Fagan Dance: Up Close & Personal”
Experiencing Garth Fagan Dance perform is a little bit like coming home, especially when you live in Rochester where the cutting edge contemporary dance company (now in its 44th year) also resides and works. Familiar dancers, familiar pieces, familiar Fagan — both wise and jocular in his comments and anecdotes. Seeing the company dance in […]
