Concert Festival "Africa-America" American tap dancer Sevion Glover. Project BARE SOUNDZ Moscow International Musical Arts Center. Grand Hall
Schedule for Festival "Africa-America" American tap dancer Sevion Glover. Project BARE SOUNDZ 2022
Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973) is an American tap dancer, 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.
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, 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.
Schedule for Festival "Africa-America" American tap dancer Sevion Glover. Project BARE SOUNDZ 2022
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