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Currently, Garth Fagan is 83 years, 11 months and 22 days old. Garth Fagan will celebrate 84rd birthday on a Friday 3rd of May 2024. Below we countdown to Garth Fagan upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Garth Fagan |
| Occupation | Dancer |
| Age | 83 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 3, 1940 (Jamaica) |
| Birthday | May 3 |
| Town/City | Jamaica |
| Nationality | Jamaica |
Garth Fagan’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Garth Fagan was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Famous for founding Rochester, New York's Garth Fagan Dance company, this Jamaican-born Choreographer is known for his highly personal work in the Afro-Caribbean dance; modern dance; social dance; and ballet genres. He received a 1998 Tony Award for his choreography for The Lion King.
After performing during his early years with the Jamaica National Dance Company, he earned a psychology degree from Wayne State University in Michigan, U.S.A. He founded Garth Fagan Dance in the early 1970s, originally naming the company Bottom of the Bucket BUT ... Dance Theatre.
He taught for many years at the State University of New York, Brockport.
A native of Kingston, Jamaica, he grew up 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 ultimate end of his marriage.
Named one of the Dance Heritage Coalition's "American Irreplaceable Dance Treasures," Fagan choreographed work for such renowned companies as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
