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Savion Glover

American Dancer

Born: Nov 19, 1973

Art Dance Me Music People Think

Related authors: Alvin Ailey JoJo Siwa Katherine Dunham Martha Graham Merce Cunningham Mikhail Baryshnikov Misty Copeland Twyla Tharp

I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all. Savion Glover

Hope Me Learning Think Enough Earth More Open Reach Know Learned Vulnerable Still Pinnacle Taught Where Much Growing

When you think about John Coltrane, in my opinion - and I think I share this opinion with a lot of people - his approach to music changed other people's approach to music. Savion Glover

Music You People Think Changed Other Approach John John Coltrane About Coltrane Share Opinion His Lot In My Opinion

I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life. Savion Glover

Life Wake Up My Life Performance Continuation Wake Up Zone

Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything. Savion Glover

Conversation Joy Meditation Everything

I've come to realize that people dance for reasons of their own. Savion Glover

People Dance Own Come Realize Reasons

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only. Savion Glover

Time You Theatre Long Live One Time About Only Long Process Take Over Although Making Times Movie Movie Making Process Use

Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it. Savion Glover

You Whatever About Learn Doing Get Just

Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step. Savion Glover

Will Joke Jazz Dancer Musician Crowd Step Like Comedian Know Always Tap Get Just Certain Jazz Musician Riff

I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music. Savion Glover

Music People Mind Dance Other Harmonica Type Harp Melody Purity Piano Allow Mission Instrument Audience Sound Hear Up Tuba Any May Against Produce Imagine

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain. Savion Glover

Exactly New Go Grain Against Create Who Figures Need

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. Savion Glover

Me You Else Approach Everyone Everyone Else Dancing Jimmy Musical Melodies Out Could Beats Towards Stereo Like Drum Know Hear Tap Up Banging Just Influenced Grew Rhythms Watching

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings. Savion Glover

Feelings Range Entertain Want Interested Whole

Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing. Savion Glover

Other Changing Dances Steps Like French Always Spanish Languages Slang

I'm a basketball freak. Savion Glover

Freak Basketball

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music. Savion Glover

Music People Dance Accept Continuing Educational Getting Process

La Cave was a great platform for me to learn and be able to listen in on conversations and just get a lot of notes and teachings from those older guys. Savion Glover

Great Me Older Those Able Guys Learn Cave Lot La Get Listen Just Conversations Notes Teachings Platform Older Guys

Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form. Savion Glover

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I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces. Savion Glover

Great Bach Some Classical Pieces Did Where Production

When I'm on TV or whatever, I'm able to bring my instruments, my board, and my sound is intact. But other kids who are on TV, when they're doing tap, sometimes they're just on the regular floor. It's not as safe; it's not as sound-worthy as it should be. Savion Glover

I am realizing and accepting my role as a tap dancer in this world is not only to tap dance for the sake of performance, but through tap dance be able to share and spread a message and congregate with people I would not necessarily be with had it not been for dance. Savion Glover

I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move. Savion Glover

Until Continue Tap Going Move

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