What if leaders in today's workplaces found creative ways to tap into talent when problems arise? Most dance choreographers would tell a pregnant dancer to take a leave, but not Garth Fagan. Garth retained dancer, Nicolette Depass, though six months pregnant, and featured her in "Phone Tag," to break old paradigms. Along with Norwood Pennewell, who's danced for a startling 30 years, Nicolette "danced vigorously and beautifully as ever" to premier this dance at Joyce Theater in New York on election night and again in the Rochester, NY premier."The special radiance of a pregnant dancer of Nicolette's quality," Garth muses, "brings new shape and dimension to dance steps old and new and celebrates my and the company's joy at the union of her and husband Bill Ferguson's superb gene pools."
The dance language of Garth Fagan draws on many sources: torso centered-movement, weight sense of modern dance, Afro-Caribbean energy, precision and speed of ballet and rule breaking precision of post-moderns.
Garth primes his working memory, plus digs from past experiences in his basal ganglia for creative approaches that lead to new possibilities.
How have you recently used a personal capability to develop a unique creation where you work?
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