GO FROM CANVAS TO STAGE WITH GARTH FAGAN DANCE.(U)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: October 21, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Vicki Smith Paluch Correspondent

Modern dance choreographer Garth Fagan has no time for angst. He's too busy celebrating.

Fagan, 64, lives by the adage, ``Find the good and praise it,'' written by the late novelist Alex Haley, who was the choreographer's friend and supporter.

During a telephone conversation from his office in Rochester, N.Y., Fagan used the word ``celebrate'' at least eight times while describing various aspects of his dances and his process of creating the dance works. As a black artist coming of age in the early 1970s, he knows about ...

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