Savion Glover, Listening to the Sound of His Own Searching

Many years ago I met him in SOHO -- and he was very happy I was familiar with his work!

I'm not an expert on Tap, but my experience watching and listening to it through the years always left me wondering why there weren't a few who broke entirely new ground. Tap has always been associated with jazz music and in the jazz community there are forward looking voices/thinkers and those who want the art form frozen in some past time, usually the 1930s and 40s. Modern dance has evolved. Alvin Ailey pushed dance forward in numerous ways that had not been seen before. Is there a tap dancer out there who has worked with the Cecil Taylors, Matthew Shipps, Joe Morris's etc. and tapped in a free rhythm-no time or tempo manner? Just curious.

Lol. "'Do you hear what you see? Or do you see what you hear?'" Who knew dancing is so confusing? P.S. Save the oxymorons for people who know how to think, Mr. Glover. Or else painters will start saying things like, "Do you hear the colors, or do you just taste them?"

When I listen intently, I see nothing, just black.

Noise/Funk still the most creative and emotionally powerful show I've ever seen. CA just too far away from NYC.

I saw the new show at the Joyce last night. Bold, beautiful filled with black excellence. The combination of tap with the lady’s gorgeous interpretive dances, and Darrell Moultrie’s solos, oh my! Congratulations to Savion Glover for taking the art form to new places. It was a joy to witness and to hear!

It's so heartening to me to read that Stevie Wonder is among the artists currently stoking Mr. Glover's genius. I'll repeat what I wrote in a NYT comment after witnessing Mr. Glover's galvanic choreography and direction of a revived "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" at City Center. I wish he'd oversee a full-fledged, Broadway-bound music/dance interpretation of songs from the immense Stevie Wonder catalog. Whether the result is called a "jukebox musical" or something entirely different won't matter. What will provoke and enchant is how powerful a joint undertaking by these two seminal artists could be.

Mr. Hines to Mr. Glover in "Jelly's Last Jam": "The whole world's waiting. Make your song." Thank you for answering the call, Mr. Glover!

The Tap Dance Kid is the only Broadway show I ever saw twice with the original cast, and I have been following Savion Glover's career ever since. I would love to see him perform with a small ensemble at a club like the Blue Note! I'll have to keep an eye on those listings.

I've been thinking about Savion Glover off and on for weeks. Not quite sure why he's on my mind, but how nice to read about him today!

Mr. Glover is an awe-inspiring talent. Thank you for this article about his latest work. Oh to be in NYC this week!