In a unique blending of cultures and art forms, Savion Glover becomes one of the musicians when his expert tapping explodes into a live visual interpretation of both classical and jazz music. He launches into a new rhythmic world where hidden sights and sounds surprise and delight, exploring counterpoint, melody and phrasing in the music. A spontaneous final segment electrifies audiences!
About the Artist
Savion Glover has a long list of credentials including performer, choreographer, director, actor and dance company founder. His resume boasts the 1996 Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award (choreography), two Obie Awards and two Fred Astaire Awards for his choreography and performance in Broadway’s Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funkas well as the 1996 Dance Magazine Choreographer of the Year Award. He has been featured in popular music videos, starred in Spike Lee’s feature film, “Bamboozled,” choreographed the award-winning Nike spots: “Free Style,” and performed for President Clinton in “Savion Glover’s Stomp, Slide and Swing: In Performance at the White House” for PBS. In 2000, he toured the nation with “Footnotes: the Concert” featuring tap legends Jimmy Slyde, Buster Brown, and Diane Walker.
Performances at Northrop
Savion Glover performed at Northrop with America on Tap in 1992.
Critic's Comments
“…the physical potency of his performing seems to sweep one into a vortex of visceral excitement that has no parallel elsewhere.”
- the danceview times
“…artistically, the most dazzling achievements of the year arguably came from tap phenomenon Savion Glover…”
- Los Angeles Times (2005)
“Savion Glover is as comfortable with Bach and other classical artists as he is with Ellington.”
- New York Post
Evening's Program
Classical Savion
Choreography: Savion Glover
Music: “Summer from The Four Seasons,” Antonio Vivaldi, 3rd movement.
“Autumn from The Four Seasons,” Antonio Vivaldi, 1st movement.
“Winter from The Four Seasons,” Antonio Vivaldi, 1st movement.
“The American Quartet,” Antonin Dvorak, 4th movement.
Pause
“Brandenburg Concerto No. 3,” Johann Sebastian Bach, 1st movement.
“Orchestral Suite in b minor,” J.S. Bach, Badinerie movement.
“Rumanian Folk Dances,” Bela Bartok, Pe Loc movement.
“Quartet no. 8 in c minor,” Dmitri Shostakovich, 2nd & 3rd movements.
“Octet in E flat Major,” Felix Mendelssohn, 3rd & 4th movements.
Pause
Finale: “Stars and Stripes Forever, For Now,” arr. Tommy James
Taking tap to a whole new dimension, Savion Glover shines with a magnificent musical interaction of tap dance choreographed to classical music as well as jazz riffs and extrapolations.
Classical Savion is a one hour and fourty five minute show with two "pauses" between movements. There is no intermission.
*Subject to change.