A jam for the ages!
Savion Glover, hailed by The Telegraph as “the world’s greatest tap dancer,” has wowed audiences around the world with his masterful dancing and choreography. He began lessons at age 7 and at just 12 was on Broadway, performing The Tap Dance Kid and utilizing his signature percussive “hitting” style of tap that “blew away any preconceptions that tap had to revolve around spangles and smiley faces.” (The Telegraph) He has since spent five years on Sesame Street, toured extensively, received Tony nominations, performed with P. Diddy, and even provided the footwork for the penguin Mumble in the movie Happy Feet. Glover idolizes the early heroes of tap, and is quick to credit those “cats” who laid their legacy beneath his feet. “I don’t know where I’d be without them,” (The Telegraph) he says. The “soaring” Mr. Glover (The New Yorker) is also a celebrated dance educator, and maintains a mission to inspire as many young dancers as possible.
A tremendous jazz fan, Glover will collaborate with legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette and his quartet. Headed by a “long-time jazz hero” (The Guardian) whose solos are described as “extraordinary, flowing and nonschematic, and full of tone color,” he has collaborated with just about every famous jazz musician over the past 50 years. Come for a foot-tapping bonanza of mastery old and new!
SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM
- Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
- Tickets $27-$100; Order tickets through PerformanceSantaFe.org or TicketsSantaFe.org
For interviews/information/images: Please contact Sandra Noë, sandra@performancesantafe.org, 505 984 8759.
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Performance Santa Fe’s 79th season in 2015-16 is funded by the City of Santa Fe and the 1% Lodgers Tax; New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs; the McCune Charitable Foundation; and donors, patrons, and sponsors from New Mexico and across the world.