Garth Fagan Dance To Perform at Vanderbilt

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Tennessee TRIBUNE, The

01-05-2000

Garth Fagan Dance To Perform At Vanderbilt

Garth Fagan Dance, one of the country's most unconventional concert
troupes, will perform at Vanderbilt University as a part of Great
Performances at Vanderbilt at 8 p.m. Thursday, January 20, in the Langford
Auditorium. The concert is co-sponsored by Vanderbilt's Martin Luther King
Jr. Commerative Series.

Garth Fagan Dance was founded in 1970 by Garth Fagan, t...

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