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Monty Alexander with Garth Fagan Dance at CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival at Kodak Hall At Eastman Theatre

Courtesy of Jean Dalmath | Posted on February 27, 2020

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Monty Alexander with Garth Fagan Dance at CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival at Kodak Hall At Eastman Theatre

When

Wed, June 24, 2020
8:00 pm

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This special performance is a coming together of two magnificent Jamaicans and friends-who've known each other a very very long time to celebrate music and dance at the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival!

Garth Fagan Dance is an internationally acclaimed contemporary American dance company, a bustling school of dance with an enrollment of 400 students, and a community-based resource of broad and growing influence, whose home has remained in Rochester for almost five decades.

The company’s start began in the ‘70s when the country was just beginning to emerge from a tumultuous decade of riots and widespread unrest. As part of his recent appointment to the faculty at the State University of New York in Brockport, Garth Fagan began teaching dance classes at the SUNY Educational Opportunity Center in downtown Rochester. Many of his students had no previous training. Most came from inner city, economically disadvantaged backgrounds. But Fagan was so inspired by their raw talent and tenacity that he decided to transform this highly unconventional group of dancers into a professional company, based not in one of the world’s cultural capitals but in upstate New York....

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