Financial Aid

All GFDS students are eligible to apply for need-based financial assistance.

**For Spring Semester 2012, the due date for the financial aid application is APRIL 10, 2012.**

Failure to submit a complete application prior to this deadline will result in removal from the applicant pool.

A complete application includes a Financial Aid Application AND a pay stub verifying income. If unemployed, a bank statement or a certified letter verifying unemployment status is required.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage early submission of materials. All applicants will be notified via e-mail prior to the beginning of the semester.

Forms may be submitted by email to leona@garthfagandance.org or mailed to Garth Fagan Dance, 50 Chestnut St., Rochester, NY 14604.

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

Robert Johnson, The Star-Ledger

"This is a brilliant company."

Clive Barnes, New York Post

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

Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times

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Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times

"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 ..."

Garth Fagan

"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 ..."

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

"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 ..."

Deborah Jowitt

"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 ..."

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

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