SAVION GLOVER
SAVION GLOVER is a world-renown dance sensation, Tony Award-winning choreogra- pher, teacher, producer, and the very de nition of cool. In 2013, The New York Post said "The former Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk star can happily disappear into the group, but he's still a virtuoso. At 39, he can ll a room with sound while barely moving, or create intricate rhythms without breaking a sweat. You watch and wonder exactly how he does it."
Glover, known for combining traditional tap moves with his own edgy routines, describes his style as "young and funk," which has proven to be the recipe for his extraordinary success, time and time again. World-class dancer, the late Gregory Hines once said of Glover, "We're not talking about a good tap dancer. We've got to establish that right away. He could arguably be the best tap dancer that ever lived. He's a genius."
At the age of 10, Glover made his Broadway debut in The Tap Dance Kid (1984). At the age of 15, he became one of the youngest Tony Award nominees for his role in Black and Blue (1989). In 1992, Glover starred as young Jelly Roll Morton alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a role for which he made history as the youngest ever recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. The success didn't stop there. In 1996, he won a Tony Award for Best Choreography with Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. The New York Times wrote, "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."
Broadway is not the only place where Glover has made a name for himself. His lm reper- toire includes Tap (1989), Bamboozled (2000), Barbara Streisand's Timeless (2000) and most recently, Academy-Award winning Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet 2 (2011) for which Glover served as co-choreographer and the feet behind Elijah Wood's character Mumble.
Glover has graced the small screen too, with countless television specials such as Gregory Hines' Tap Dance in America (1989), Slide and Swing with Savion Glover (1998), Savion Glover's Nu York (1998) and appearances including Saturday Night Live and a recurring role as Savion on Sesame Street from 1990-95, among others.
In order to keep the legacy of tap alive for future generations, Glover founded The Hooferz Club School for Tap in Newark, New Jersey. The school's students are not only encouraged to learn tap history and theory, but also to identify with the creative process that can revise and re ne their own approach to tap dancing.
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With his extraordinary talent for tap paired with his desire to uphold its history, Glover's legacy is from an end. He is currently working as a choreographer with six-time Tony Award-win- ner Audra McDonald, director George C. Wolfe and producer Scott Rudin to retell the story of a 1921 historically black musical Shu e Along. Shu e Along or the Making of the Musical Sensa- tion of 1921 and All That Followed is set to make its debut on April 21, 2016 at the Music Box Theater in New York City.
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