Savion Glover

Savion Glover stormed the dance world in the late 1980's with his hard-hitting tap and improvisational choreography using elements from jazz, hip-hop, be-bop, and world music. He is one of the youngest men to be nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in "Black and Blue.

Glover made his Broadway debut as the title character in "The Tap Dance Kid" at the age of 12. He appeared on Broadway opposite Gregory Hines in "Jelly's Last Jam" and toured with that show. In 1988, Glover co-starred in the film Tap with Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr. He has also appeared in Dance in America: Tap! with Hines and Tommy Tune for PBS and Nickelodeon, The Academy Awards, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, and is currently a series regular on Sesame Street. Glover has also danced in a tribute to the Nicholas Brothers on The Kennedy Center Honors for CBS.

In 1996, Glover won the Tony award for his dancing and choreography of the Broadway smash-hit, "Bring In Da Noize, Bring In Da Funk," which had a successful international tour in 2002. Glover has danced on concert stages throughout the world, including the Moulin Rouge, Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institution, Carnegie Hall, and the White House. He choreographed a work for the Washington Society for the Performing Arts in association with the NEA and has received an Endowment Grant for Choreography, making him the youngest person in NEA history to receive this honor.

Additional Broadway credits include "Black and Blue." He appeared in an ABC TV special, Savion Glover's Nu York. Other film credits include Bamboozled, by Spike Lee. In 1997, he created a dance company, NYOTs (Not Your Ordinary Tappers), with which he performed on the 1997 ABC opening to Monday Night Football and on a PBS special at the White House, Savion Glover's Stomp, Slide and Swing: In Performance.