Article: Draft of Shadows. (Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York)

Garth Fagan Dance Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York September 23-25,1994 Reviewed by Herbert M. Simpson

Homeboys Garth Fagan, David Diamond, and Steve Greene, as well as the twenty-four-year-old Garth Fagan Dance, all feel unrecognized in Rochester, yet Fagan's Draft of Shadows, set to the first two movements of Diamond's Symphony no. 3, and the revival of Sojoum (1984) to Greene's original score, got an ecstatic reception at these performances. I find Fagan's familiar, Orwellian Sojourn an evolutionary event more than a milestone, but Draft of Shadows (1993) is a real achievement.

It's deliberately incomplete, avoiding the wholeness of Diamond's big, ...

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