Savion Glover
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Savion Glover is an American tap dance
r, actor
, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap. He wants to put tap back into the contemporary black context.
His grandmother, Anna Lundy Lewis, was the minister of music at Newpoint Baptists Church in Newark. She played for Whitney Houston when she was singing in the gospel choir. Anna Lundry Lewis was the one who first noticed Savion's musical talent. She once held him and hummed some rhythms to him, and he smiled and joined along.
Gregory Hines
, a tap legend, was once one of Glover's tap teachers. Hines states that, "Savion is possibly the best tap dancer that ever lived." Savion likes to start his pieces with some old school moves from famous tappers and then work his way into his own style. Hines says it’s like paying homage to those he respects, those he looks up to. When Honi Coles died, Savion performed at his memorial service. He finished his dance with a famous Coles move, a backflip into a split from standing position, then getting up without using one's hands. Savion rarely does this move because it wasn't his style, but he did it because it was Coles' style that Savion wanted to keep alive, "I feel like it's one of my responsibilities to keep the dance alive, to keep it out there, to keep the style."
Henry Le Tang calls Glover the Sponge because he learns very quickly with everything that is thrown at him. Le Tang taught the Hines brothers back in the 1950s and taught Glover for a little while before having him work for "Black and Blue," a tap revue in Paris in 1987. Glover is the future of tap. Many legendary tappers taught Glover such as Le Tang, the Hines brothers, Jimmy Slyde
, Chuck Green
, Lon Chaney
, Honi Coles, Sammy Davis, Jr.
, Buster Brown
, Howard Sims, and Arthur Duncan
. They all passed on their moves and talents to Savion after he went public with his career with the Broadway performance in, "The Tap Dance Kid
" at the age of ten.
Wants to bring back the real essence of tap. Savion claims he is on a mission to reclaim the rhythm that was lost when tap dancing was recycled after many generations. It started in Harlem with Sissle and Blake's 1921 musical "Shuffle Along," then to Broadway, and then in Hollywood. There in Hollywood, it lost its meaning amongst the entertainment and jazz hands. Savion wants to keep the tap real, keeping the rhythm below the waist without having to incorporate the jazz
smiles and jazz
hands. He wants to honor that authentic African-rooted sound.
In the pre-Civil War
South, slaves were forbidden to use drums because their owners feared of rebellion. Because drums were unattainable, the rhythm of the beat was relocated to their feet in the form of tap. There was a connection of the tap beat and the subversive liberation. Many tappers have played the drums in their lifetime. In addition to Savion, Harold Nicholas
, Fred Astaire
, Gregory Hines
, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson went from drums to tap. At the age of seven, Savion drummed in a group called Three Plus One. In the group, he demanded that he danced while he played the drum. Tap is like a drum solo where one may create many tones from the foot. The heel may be used as the bass drum, the ball as the snare, and the side of the foot as a rim shot. A regular tap dancer knows the typical ball and heel movement, but not many know about the side of the arch, the inside of the foot.
Glover has a heavy foot for tap. He dances hard and loud in every step. He teaches his mentees that one must learn how to hit. "Hitting" is a term related to one's ability to express oneself, to complete a tap sequence, to say something. One can't hit if he or she cannot express themselves. Savion claims that tap won't go anywhere if tap is kept within the classroom. One must reach that point where one can hit by incorporating all the classroom moves, but converting it into his or her own style. Savion likes to see what one has learned in the class, but he only likes to see one's true self behind the new moves, how one feels, how one hears the rhythms, without any restrictions.
Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk
ABC special, Savion Glover's Nu York
ABC opening to Monday Night Football
HBO movie, The Rat Pack
Created a dance company called NYOTs (Not Your Ordinary Tappers)
PBS for President Clinton in Savion Glover's Stomp, Slide, and Swing: In Performances in the Whitehouse
Savion Glover/Downtown: Live Communication
When Glover choreographs a piece, he improvises as he generates a dance sequence. As glover teaches his dancers for Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk during rehearsals, he frequently stops during his improvisation and asks his dancers, "Hear the beat?" Savion has a keen sense of music and rhythm. He can hear a lot more of what is going on than what his performs can. As he listens to every beat of the music, he can transmit it straight to his feet. Savion likes to stop and listen to the lighter sounds, in order to give his dancing a distinguished power and force created by his obsessive examination of rhythms. Glover doesn't know where his talent to find special dance moves comes from, but he doesn't question it. Anything can happen when he is in rehearsals because he creates his every move on the spot, never really thinking or worrying about what he doesn’t know beforehand.
As he finds rhythms, he listens for new sounds at many different points on the stage. "I'm feelin' the stage for sounds. You might find a spot on it that gives you that bass; you might find a spot on the floor that gives you that dead type tom-tom sound." Watching Glover build and organize the intricate wave of rhythms is like observing a mathematical equation being set up and factored out. "I think what makes Savion an incredible artist is his extraordinary joy in what he does. He is able to live in that state of joy and not compromise his emotional complexity like the earlier tap dancers had to," says George C. Wolfe. He is as much a composer as he is a choreographer.
The play celebrates the talents of black musicians, singers, and dancers. The tap dance sequences were specifically tied to the elegance of the class acts, insisting on stylish dignity. The dancers and choreography were raved with terrific work by restraining the remarkable and favoring a collective brilliance of sound. The opening scene sets the tone. The audiences were astonished with the capabilities and talents of tap dancers. Savion Glover and his teenage partners, Cyd Glover and Dormeshia Sumbry, were in charge of wooing their spectators in the staircase dance with foot shaking resilience. Black and Blue was a luxuriant show.
New York times claims that Glover nor his dancers can be faulted in their performance. This Broadway presentation showed the power of dance. Glover found ways to show an equivalence through tap of urban industrialization, the early days of plantaions, Harlem-Renaissance, and the race riots. "Mr. Glover meticulously and respectfully demonstrates the techniques made famous by each, then blends them all into an exultant stylistic brew that belongs to no one but him. As dance, as musical, as theater, as art, as history and entertainment, there's nothing Noise/Funk cannot and should not do." -New York Times.
"Dance in America: Tap!"
Black Film Makers Hall of Fame
The Kennedy Center Honors
Academy Awards Ceremony (1996) for Tom Hanks tribute
1989-1991- Black and Blue, Minskoff Theatre, New York City
1992-1993 - Jelly's Last Jam, as Young Jelly, Virginia Theatre, New York City
1996-1997 - Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, Ambassador Theatre, New York City
1998 - Savion Glover: Downtown, Variety Arts Theatre, New York City
1999 - Keep Bangin', Players Theatre, New York City
2001 - Foot Notes, Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles
2002 - Savion Glover with TiDii the Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
Also toured U.S. cities in Jelly's Last Jam
1998 - The Rat Pack, as the choreographer, HBO
2001 - Bojangles, as Newcomer, Showtime
1989 - Tap, as Louis, TriStar
2000 - Bamboozled, as Manray/Mantan, New Line
2001 - The Making of "Bamboozled,"
2000 - Barbra Streisand's "Timeless"
2006 - Happy Feet
1989 - 16th Annual Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, syndicated
1997 - Launching the Tonys, as the Presenter, Broadway `97, PBS
1997 - The 51st Annual Tony Awards, CBS
1997 - 39th Grammy Awards, CBS
1998 - The 13th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, syndicated
1998 - 12th Annual Soul Train Music Awards, syndicated
1999 - 30th NAACP Image Awards, Fox
2001 - The 32nd NAACP Image Awards, Fox
1998 - Sin City Spectacular (also known as Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular), FX
1999 - The Jamie Foxx Show, "Taps for Royal," The WB
1999 - Saturday Night Live, (Uncredited), NBC
2000 - Odyssey, America!
2003 - Cedric the Entertainer Presents, Bartholomew, Fox
Also appeared in the music video "Havana" by Kenny G.
Also appeared in the music video "All about the Benjamins" by Puff Daddy and the Family
1992 - Jelly's Last Jam (original cast recording), Mercury
1995 - Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule, Pacific Vista Productions
1996 - Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk (original cast recording), RCAVictor
1996 - Prince: "Joint 2 Joint" (tap dance breakdown), from the album "Emancipation"
2002 - Talib kweli-Stand 2 the side, from the album "Quality"
April 1996 - Dance Magazine
May 23, 1998 - TV Guide, p. 6
1991 - The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
1992 - Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC
1992 - Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway (documentary), PBS
1993 - Sesame Street Stays Up Late! (also known as Sesame Street Stays Up Late! A Monster New Year's Eve Party), as Savion, PBS
1994 - Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!, ABC
1994 - In a New Light `94, ABC
1995 - The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
1996 - Vanessa Williams & Friends: Christmas in New York, ABC
1997 - It Just Takes One, USA
1997 - 53rd Presidential Inaugural Gala, CBS
1998 - Slide and Swing with Savion Glover, Stomp, PBS
1998 - Savion Glover's Nu York, as the Host, ABC
1998 - Savion Glover's Nu York, Executive producer and choreographer, ABC
1998 - The First 50 Years, Quincy Jones, ABC
1998 - The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Opening Night Gala, PBS, Ads by Google
1999 - Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra in Concert, Disney Channel
2000 - The Steadfast Tin Soldier: An Animated Special from the "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child" Series (animated), the voice of toy dancer, HBO
2001 - Barbra Streisand-Timeless, Brother Time, Fox
2001 - Barbra Streisand-Timeless, as the choreographer, Fox
2002 - Olympic Winter Games, Closing ceremony, NBC
2002 - AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Tom Hanks, USA
Tap dance
Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...
r, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap. He wants to put tap back into the contemporary black context.
Biography
His great grandfather on his mother's side, Dick (King Richard) Lundy, was a short stop for the Negro Leagues. He managed eleven Negro League baseball teams, including the Newark Eagles. His grandfather, Bill Lewis, was a big band pianist and vocalist.His grandmother, Anna Lundy Lewis, was the minister of music at Newpoint Baptists Church in Newark. She played for Whitney Houston when she was singing in the gospel choir. Anna Lundry Lewis was the one who first noticed Savion's musical talent. She once held him and hummed some rhythms to him, and he smiled and joined along.
Prodigal Work
Savion claims his style is young and funk. When asked to describe what funk is, he says it is the bass line. Funk is anything that gets one's head on beat. It is riding with the rhythm. It is a pulse that keeps one rolling with the beat.Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines
Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
, a tap legend, was once one of Glover's tap teachers. Hines states that, "Savion is possibly the best tap dancer that ever lived." Savion likes to start his pieces with some old school moves from famous tappers and then work his way into his own style. Hines says it’s like paying homage to those he respects, those he looks up to. When Honi Coles died, Savion performed at his memorial service. He finished his dance with a famous Coles move, a backflip into a split from standing position, then getting up without using one's hands. Savion rarely does this move because it wasn't his style, but he did it because it was Coles' style that Savion wanted to keep alive, "I feel like it's one of my responsibilities to keep the dance alive, to keep it out there, to keep the style."
Henry Le Tang calls Glover the Sponge because he learns very quickly with everything that is thrown at him. Le Tang taught the Hines brothers back in the 1950s and taught Glover for a little while before having him work for "Black and Blue," a tap revue in Paris in 1987. Glover is the future of tap. Many legendary tappers taught Glover such as Le Tang, the Hines brothers, Jimmy Slyde
Jimmy Slyde
Jimmy Slyde known as the King of Slides, was a world-renowned tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz....
, Chuck Green
Chuck Green
Charles "Chuck" Green was a famous American tap dancer.Green was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. He would stick bottle caps on his bare feet as a child and tap dance on the sidewalk for money. He won third place in a dance contest in 1925 in which Noble Sissle was the bandleader...
, Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
Chaney is an American surname of French origin, and may refer to:* Charles "Bubba" Chaney , Louisiana politician* Chris Chaney, US musician* Darrel Chaney, US baseball player* Don Chaney, US basketballer* Esty Chaney , US baseballer...
, Honi Coles, Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities....
, Buster Brown
Buster Brown
Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault who was known for his association with the Brown Shoe Company. This mischievous young boy was loosely based on a boy near Outcault's home in Flushing, New York...
, Howard Sims, and Arthur Duncan
Arthur Duncan
Arthur Duncan is a tap dancer, known for his stint as a performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1964 to 1982; which made him the first African-American regular on a variety television program....
. They all passed on their moves and talents to Savion after he went public with his career with the Broadway performance in, "The Tap Dance Kid
The Tap Dance Kid
The Tap Dance Kid is a musical based on the novel Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh. It was written by Charles Blackwell with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics by Robert Lorick.-Productions:...
" at the age of ten.
Teaching
Taught tap since he was fourteen years old. Glover created Real Tap Skills. He started HooFeRzCLuB School for Tap Newark, New Jersey.Wants to bring back the real essence of tap. Savion claims he is on a mission to reclaim the rhythm that was lost when tap dancing was recycled after many generations. It started in Harlem with Sissle and Blake's 1921 musical "Shuffle Along," then to Broadway, and then in Hollywood. There in Hollywood, it lost its meaning amongst the entertainment and jazz hands. Savion wants to keep the tap real, keeping the rhythm below the waist without having to incorporate the jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
smiles and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
hands. He wants to honor that authentic African-rooted sound.
In the pre-Civil War
Civil war
A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly-united nation state....
South, slaves were forbidden to use drums because their owners feared of rebellion. Because drums were unattainable, the rhythm of the beat was relocated to their feet in the form of tap. There was a connection of the tap beat and the subversive liberation. Many tappers have played the drums in their lifetime. In addition to Savion, Harold Nicholas
Harold Nicholas
Harold Lloyd Nicholas was an American dancer specializing in tap. He was the younger half of the world famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas...
, Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
, Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines
Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson went from drums to tap. At the age of seven, Savion drummed in a group called Three Plus One. In the group, he demanded that he danced while he played the drum. Tap is like a drum solo where one may create many tones from the foot. The heel may be used as the bass drum, the ball as the snare, and the side of the foot as a rim shot. A regular tap dancer knows the typical ball and heel movement, but not many know about the side of the arch, the inside of the foot.
Glover has a heavy foot for tap. He dances hard and loud in every step. He teaches his mentees that one must learn how to hit. "Hitting" is a term related to one's ability to express oneself, to complete a tap sequence, to say something. One can't hit if he or she cannot express themselves. Savion claims that tap won't go anywhere if tap is kept within the classroom. One must reach that point where one can hit by incorporating all the classroom moves, but converting it into his or her own style. Savion likes to see what one has learned in the class, but he only likes to see one's true self behind the new moves, how one feels, how one hears the rhythms, without any restrictions.
Notable choreographed pieces
ABC special, Savion Glover's Nu York
ABC opening to Monday Night Football
HBO movie, The Rat Pack
Created a dance company called NYOTs (Not Your Ordinary Tappers)
PBS for President Clinton in Savion Glover's Stomp, Slide, and Swing: In Performances in the Whitehouse
Savion Glover/Downtown: Live Communication
When Glover choreographs a piece, he improvises as he generates a dance sequence. As glover teaches his dancers for Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk during rehearsals, he frequently stops during his improvisation and asks his dancers, "Hear the beat?" Savion has a keen sense of music and rhythm. He can hear a lot more of what is going on than what his performs can. As he listens to every beat of the music, he can transmit it straight to his feet. Savion likes to stop and listen to the lighter sounds, in order to give his dancing a distinguished power and force created by his obsessive examination of rhythms. Glover doesn't know where his talent to find special dance moves comes from, but he doesn't question it. Anything can happen when he is in rehearsals because he creates his every move on the spot, never really thinking or worrying about what he doesn’t know beforehand.
As he finds rhythms, he listens for new sounds at many different points on the stage. "I'm feelin' the stage for sounds. You might find a spot on it that gives you that bass; you might find a spot on the floor that gives you that dead type tom-tom sound." Watching Glover build and organize the intricate wave of rhythms is like observing a mathematical equation being set up and factored out. "I think what makes Savion an incredible artist is his extraordinary joy in what he does. He is able to live in that state of joy and not compromise his emotional complexity like the earlier tap dancers had to," says George C. Wolfe. He is as much a composer as he is a choreographer.
"The Tap Dance Kid" (1985)
This play was based on the novel "Nobody's Family is Going to Change" by Louise Fitzhugh. Savion's Broadway debut started at the age of ten with this show. He was directed and choreographed by Danny Daniels. Glover has been captivating audiences ever since this play for almost thirty years now. Reviews of this show were given mediocre ratings. The New York Times claimed it was a traditional story to give children a dream to look forward to, but it wasn't anything exceptional. The lyrics by Robert Lorick were generally too conventional to strengthen the script. The music was led by Henry Krieger, a brilliant orchestrator who failed this time to keep his audiences singing proceeding the show. The design aspect was given good reviews because it portrayed a life like collage of a bright Broadway."Black and Blue" (1989)
Performed at the age of fifteen. After this performance, he was nominated as one of the youngest performers nominated for a Tony at the time.The play celebrates the talents of black musicians, singers, and dancers. The tap dance sequences were specifically tied to the elegance of the class acts, insisting on stylish dignity. The dancers and choreography were raved with terrific work by restraining the remarkable and favoring a collective brilliance of sound. The opening scene sets the tone. The audiences were astonished with the capabilities and talents of tap dancers. Savion Glover and his teenage partners, Cyd Glover and Dormeshia Sumbry, were in charge of wooing their spectators in the staircase dance with foot shaking resilience. Black and Blue was a luxuriant show.
"Jelly's Last Jam" (1992)
It was said that this play was a predecessor to the uprising of jazz music. The dancing was choreographed by Ted Levy and Mr. Hines. Every step as well as every hand and head motion was rehearsed to the very inch. Savion played as Jelly. It was the story of a man who rose to fame. He came of age playing piano in a brothel then later took to travel among the railroad after his caretaker, his great grandmother, disowned him. He scavenged to survive. Jelly made his unique genre of music, jazz, known to the world and captivating his spectators in his travels."Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk" (1996)
Won a Tony award for his Broadway show.New York times claims that Glover nor his dancers can be faulted in their performance. This Broadway presentation showed the power of dance. Glover found ways to show an equivalence through tap of urban industrialization, the early days of plantaions, Harlem-Renaissance, and the race riots. "Mr. Glover meticulously and respectfully demonstrates the techniques made famous by each, then blends them all into an exultant stylistic brew that belongs to no one but him. As dance, as musical, as theater, as art, as history and entertainment, there's nothing Noise/Funk cannot and should not do." -New York Times.
Television Programs
Sesame Street (1991–1995)"Dance in America: Tap!"
Black Film Makers Hall of Fame
The Kennedy Center Honors
Academy Awards Ceremony (1996) for Tom Hanks tribute
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1992 - for choreography, making him the youngest recipient in N.E.A. history.Stage Appearances
1984 - The Tap Dance Kid, (Broadway debut) Title character1989-1991- Black and Blue, Minskoff Theatre, New York City
1992-1993 - Jelly's Last Jam, as Young Jelly, Virginia Theatre, New York City
1996-1997 - Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, Ambassador Theatre, New York City
1998 - Savion Glover: Downtown, Variety Arts Theatre, New York City
1999 - Keep Bangin', Players Theatre, New York City
2001 - Foot Notes, Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles
2002 - Savion Glover with TiDii the Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
Major Tours
2002 - Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, U.S. cities/international citiesAlso toured U.S. cities in Jelly's Last Jam
Stage Work
1996-1997 - Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, as the choreographer, Ambassador Theatre, New York CityTelevision Appearances
1990-1995 - Sesame Street (also known as Les amis de Sesame, Canadian Sesame Street, The New Sesame Street, Open Sesame, and Sesame Park), as Savion, on PBSTelevision Movies
1998 - The Wall, as Bracey Mitchell, Showtime1998 - The Rat Pack, as the choreographer, HBO
2001 - Bojangles, as Newcomer, Showtime
Film Appearances
1988 - Driving Me Crazy, Audition artist, First Run1989 - Tap, as Louis, TriStar
2000 - Bamboozled, as Manray/Mantan, New Line
2001 - The Making of "Bamboozled,"
2000 - Barbra Streisand's "Timeless"
2006 - Happy Feet
Awards Presentations
1989 - The 61st Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC1989 - 16th Annual Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, syndicated
1997 - Launching the Tonys, as the Presenter, Broadway `97, PBS
1997 - The 51st Annual Tony Awards, CBS
1997 - 39th Grammy Awards, CBS
1998 - The 13th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, syndicated
1998 - 12th Annual Soul Train Music Awards, syndicated
1999 - 30th NAACP Image Awards, Fox
2001 - The 32nd NAACP Image Awards, Fox
Episodic
1987 - Super Dave1998 - Sin City Spectacular (also known as Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular), FX
1999 - The Jamie Foxx Show, "Taps for Royal," The WB
1999 - Saturday Night Live, (Uncredited), NBC
2000 - Odyssey, America!
2003 - Cedric the Entertainer Presents, Bartholomew, Fox
Music Videos
2001 - Timeless: Live in Concert, Brother TimeAlso appeared in the music video "Havana" by Kenny G.
Also appeared in the music video "All about the Benjamins" by Puff Daddy and the Family
Albums
1989 - Black and Blue (original cast recording), DRG1992 - Jelly's Last Jam (original cast recording), Mercury
1995 - Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule, Pacific Vista Productions
1996 - Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk (original cast recording), RCAVictor
1996 - Prince: "Joint 2 Joint" (tap dance breakdown), from the album "Emancipation"
2002 - Talib kweli-Stand 2 the side, from the album "Quality"
Periodicals
November 1994 - Dance MagazineApril 1996 - Dance Magazine
May 23, 1998 - TV Guide, p. 6
Specials
1989 - Tap Dance in America (also known as Gregory Hines' Tap Dance in America), PBS1991 - The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
1992 - Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC
1992 - Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway (documentary), PBS
1993 - Sesame Street Stays Up Late! (also known as Sesame Street Stays Up Late! A Monster New Year's Eve Party), as Savion, PBS
1994 - Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!, ABC
1994 - In a New Light `94, ABC
1995 - The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS
1996 - Vanessa Williams & Friends: Christmas in New York, ABC
1997 - It Just Takes One, USA
1997 - 53rd Presidential Inaugural Gala, CBS
1998 - Slide and Swing with Savion Glover, Stomp, PBS
1998 - Savion Glover's Nu York, as the Host, ABC
1998 - Savion Glover's Nu York, Executive producer and choreographer, ABC
1998 - The First 50 Years, Quincy Jones, ABC
1998 - The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Opening Night Gala, PBS, Ads by Google
1999 - Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra in Concert, Disney Channel
2000 - The Steadfast Tin Soldier: An Animated Special from the "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child" Series (animated), the voice of toy dancer, HBO
2001 - Barbra Streisand-Timeless, Brother Time, Fox
2001 - Barbra Streisand-Timeless, as the choreographer, Fox
2002 - Olympic Winter Games, Closing ceremony, NBC
2002 - AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Tom Hanks, USA
Works Cited
- Brantley, Ben. "THEATER REVIEW;Story of Tap as the Story of Blacks." Rev. of Broadway. New York TImes,16 Nov. 1995. The New York Times. 16 Nov. 1995. Web. 13 Feb. 2011.
- Filmbug. "Savion Glover." Filmbug Movie Stars. New Line Cinema, 01 Jan. 2000. Web. 13 Feb. 2011.
- Hill, Constance Valis. "Oxford University Press: Tap Dancing America: Constance Valis Hill." Oxford University Press: OUP.COM Home Page. Web. 10 Feb. 2011.
- Kisselgoff, Anna. "DANCE VIEW; Elegant Ghosts Haunt 'Black and Blue' - New York Times." Review. Arts, 21 May 1989. New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 21 May 1989. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.
- Lahr, JohnJohn LahrJohn Lahr is an American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...
. Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre. New York: Dial, 1996. Print. - NetIndustries, LLC. "Savion Glover Biography (1973-)." Film Reference. 01 Jan. 2010. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.
- Rich, Frank. "STAGE: A BOY AND HIS DREAMS IN 'TAP DANCE KID'" Rev. of Broadway. New York Times, 22 Dec. 1983. The New York Times. 22 Dec. 1983. Web. 12 Feb. 2011.