{"id":15166,"date":"2015-12-03T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=15166"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:02:38","slug":"playing-to-the-back-row-with-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=15166","title":{"rendered":"Playing to the Back Row, with Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15170\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gfagan-longview1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15170\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15170\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gfagan-longview1.jpg\" alt=\"Garth Fagan Dance: Homecoming\" width=\"526\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gfagan-longview1.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gfagan-longview1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garth Fagan Dance: Homecoming<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you get the chance, venture over to Rochester and check out Garth Fagan Dance\u00a0this weekend. \u00a0Last night&#8217;s\u00a0soul-busting season premiere, held at Nazareth College, included lively numbers such as &#8220;Alumni Reunion Romp,&#8221; featuring dancers who were members back in the day, and classic pieces, like &#8220;Come&#8230;Celebrate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 2-hour show on Wednesday was accented with shoulder shimmies and full-bodied, bouncing back slides that are a GFD trademarks, but the real party began when former company members such as Valentina Alexander-Efejuku, Chris Morrison, Bill Ferguson, and Bit Knighton graced the stage. \u00a0The GFD alumni have movement for days (or in some cases, for decades)!<\/p>\n<p>Another of our favorites was a visual poem and kinetic montage\/home going celebration for artist Geoffrey Holder. This colorful and deeply Caribbean number was enough to wipe away any winter\u00a0melancholia. \u00a0This is the kind of modern dance true fans deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Rochester, you should be proud of your adopted son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get the chance, venture over to Rochester and check out Garth Fagan Dance\u00a0this weekend. \u00a0Last night&#8217;s\u00a0soul-busting season premiere, held at Nazareth College, included lively numbers such as &#8220;Alumni Reunion Romp,&#8221; featuring dancers who were members back in the day, and classic pieces, like &#8220;Come&#8230;Celebrate.&#8221; The nearly 2-hour show on Wednesday was accented with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[4229,153,152,4844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22992,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions\/22992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}