BRUNSWICK — Garth Fagan, the acclaimed Tony Award-winning choreographer of Broadway’s “The Lion King,” will present a lecture demonstration at Bowdoin College Friday, Oct. 2, in Pickard Theater.

Garth Fagan’s singular dance language draws on many sources: the sense of weight in modern dance, the torso-centered movement and energy of Afro-Caribbean, the speed and precision of ballet, and the rule-breaking experimentation of the post-moderns.
His presentation, which will introduce the audience to his revelatory technique, will include a lecture combined with dance excerpts from his works.

Fagan has been called “one of the great reformers of American dance.” His achievements – the creation of the internationally acclaimed Garth Fagan Dance and work as choreographer, most recently and notably for Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” – have been recognized by a host of awards and honors.

Fagan’s work in the theater also includes the first fully staged production of the Duke Ellington street opera, “Queenie Pie,” at the Kennedy Center in 1986, and the opening production of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival’s “Shakespeare Marathon: A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1988), set in Brazil and directed by A.J. Antoon.

Fagan began his career when he toured Latin America with Ivy Baxter and her national dance company from Jamaica. He was director of Detroit’s All-City Dance Company, and principal soloist and choreographer for Detroit Contemporary Dance Company and Dance Theatre of Detroit.

The event at 7:30 p.m. is open to the public. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk on campus weekdays between 8:45 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. For ticket information, call 725-3375.