Dance; Uniquely Fagan The Choreographer's Innovations at Columbia From: The Washington Post | Date: July 8, 1991| Author: Alan M. Kriegsman | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

"Originality" in choreography may be difficult (impossible?) to define, but it's relatively easy to spot. Sometimes it smacks you so hard in the face that the sting of it never leaves.

A case in point is the work of Garth Fagan, whose Rochester, N.Y.-based troupe, Garth Fagan Dance, performed this past weekend at Wilde Lake High School at the tail end of the third annual Columbia Festival of the Arts.

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Fagan's troupe has undergone numero...