DANCERS' ENERGY MATCHES HARD-DRIVING SCORE IN 'GRIOT'

From: Rocky Mountain News | Date: April 16, 2004| Author: Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News | Copyright information

In West Africa, a griot is a folklorist, storyteller and guardian of tradition. Garth Fagan's full-evening dance piece Griot New York may suggest a series of folk tales from the Big Apple - but it's much more than that.

And, in a positive sense, much less.

In the final Artist Series event at Macky Auditorium on Thursday, Garth Fagan Dance performed this multifaceted, multilayered work that bubbled with an energy that perfectly matched the hard-driving jazz- blues score by Wynton ...

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