Quotes

• "Fagan’s premiere, Thanks Forty, is a celebratory suite... to highly contrasting pieces of music (only a man of daring and astute musicality would attempt this)...He unleashes his most carefree blend of form and exuberant physicality. "

  Deborah Jowitt

• "My duets express the complexity of human relationships, in whatever form they may take - male/female, female/female, male/male, same race/interracial, or gay/straight. Each tells a different story of generation, culture, or class - embracing both the similarities and differences between all relationships and all mankind."

  Garth Fagan

• "Mudan moves like a wind chimes on a mercurial day. Pennewell and Benton merely anchor that blustery, then tranquil, spirit to human experience so it stays with us after the curtain falls."

  Apollinaire Scherr, The Financial Times

• "MUDAN 175/39, quite possibly one of the finest works Mr. Fagan has created, remains etched clearly in the mind"

  Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times

• "The lyric and the exuberant are not mutually exclusive in Mr. Fagan's choreography. He channels energy into his splendid dancers but also knows how to keep them standing on one leg with contemplative calm. There is a more formal dimension to his work. It may look plotless for the most part, but it is shot through with a humanist streak."

  Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times

• "Consider the Fagan program a prime example of the versatility and sophistication of concert dance in this new century."

  Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times

• "This is a brilliant company."

  Clive Barnes, New York Post

• "Here is a choreographer whose gift for abstraction is matched by a subtle and powerful ability to suggest relationships in pure dance terms. Fagan's...dancers feature all sizes, shapes and types...wholly unified in their virtuosic interpretation of his work."

  Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

• "Fagan's dances are perhaps the most profound and original in contemporary dance today."

  Robert Johnson, The Star-Ledger

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