He is the author of Merce Cunningham: 50 Years (Aperture, 1997; as an app for iPad, as Merce Cunningham: 65 Years ) and of Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (revised edition, Dance Books, 1999). He was a member of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Dance(Oxford, 1998). At the Dancing in the Millennium Conference in Washington DC in July 2000, he received the 2000 CORD (Congress on Research in Dance) Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research; in September 2001 he received a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for sustained achievement; in December 2015 a Dance Magazine Award. He returned to the stage in 2015, whenCo.Venture, his collaboration with Pepper Fajans, won prizes at the Montreal Fringe Festival.

As director of BkSD he partnered with Cadman Congregational Church in 2015 to renovate their 1920's era gymnasium into a burgeoning dance studio offering classes, performances, and community events. Fajans has performed as a dancer and puppeteer in Hagoromo at Brooklyn Acadamy of Music, The Windup Bird Chronicle at the Ohio Theater, and other productions at La Mama, Danspace Project, and the 92nd Street Y. His solo work has appeared at St. Ann’s Warehouse and Judson Church. He has been featured in the New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, and Culturebot. Fajans is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, a resident of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and a 10-year member of the Seattle’s Royal Famile Ducaniveaux.