American - Dancer | November 19, 1973 -
What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.
Savion Glover
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Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through.
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If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.
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I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.
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I actually wanted to be a fireman when I was younger.
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The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me.
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There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.'
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I grew up watching Gregory Hines banging out rhythms like drum beats, and Jimmy Slyde dancing these melodies, you know, bop-bah-be-do-bap, not just tap-tap-tap. Everyone else was dancing in monotone, but I could hear the hoofers in stereo, and they influenced me to have this musical approach towards tap.
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Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.
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I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.
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I love riding my ATV 450.
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Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.
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