Talent’s something you know and you feel and the gods tell you…

What I look for in an artist, in a dancer, in a musician, is invention,” Fagan said. “Wynton plays notes I can’t find anywhere else. My dancers go a bit slower, a bit faster and they jump a bit higher. When I go to a gallery, it has to call me, pull me in. I am not going to go searching.

- Wynton Marsalis

Learn more about the production, Lighthouse/Lightning rod created by dancer Garth Fagan, and musician Wynton Marsalis, and how they were inspired by Alison Saar here.

Tour dates in case you are lucky enough to live in a city where the show is traveling:

• Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, November 16, 2012
• Home Season: Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, NY, November 27 - December 2, 2012
• Benefit Night: Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, NY, November 30, 2012
• Civic Center of Greater Des Moine, Des Moine, IA, February 9, 2013
• University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO, February 12, 2013
• Grand Opera House, Wilmington, DE, April 20, 2012