Savion Glover News

MSG Entertainment and the Garden of Dreams Foundation will celebrate the Garden of Dreams Talent Show, "Dare to Dream," on the Great Stage at Radio City Music Hall. Hosted by MSG Network Knicks reporter Jill Martin and Fuse News anchor Matte Babel,this year's talent show will showcase more than 20 different performances from 14 Garden of Dreams Foundation partner organizations.

As someone who grew up constantly involved in the arts, it is astonishing to me when I hear people say that they've never seen a(n) [basically, insert art form-opera, ballet, symphony, puppet show, etc.-HERE]. Not only have I been performing since I can remember, but I've been attending performances since long before that. Call me an old soul, but I'm a sucker for the several-hundred-year-old art forms, those means of communication that draw on the visceral needs of the human being. The way babies cry is pretty close to perfect vocal technique, dance-emotion in motion-is what we had before words, and music is a means of expression when speech just won't suffice. These things existed long before we imposed prescribed techniques and defined structures on them.

The Royal Conservatory closes out the 2012-13 season with concerts from stirring jazz to orchestral performances, explosive dance to impressive vocal fireworks, as well as solo and orchestral string showpieces.

The Little Orchestra Society (LOS) presents TUBBY THE TUBA narrated by Patti Smith, the iconic National Book Award-winner, rock musician and poet, today, March 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation presents SAVION GLOVER in SoLe Sanctuary in the Fred Kavli Theatre at 8:00 pm tonight, March 15, 2013.

Critically acclaimed Rufus Wainwright has been added to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) 2013 line-up performing a special program, Prima! Rufus! Judy! on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 8 p.m. The festival performance collaborates with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia under the baton of Broadway conductor Stephen Oremus for the two part concert. Wainwright explores PIFA's If You Had a Time Machine theme, taking audiences back in time with a performance of selections from his opera Prima Donna, featuring sopranos Melody Moore and Kathryn Guthrie. The opera tells the story of an aging opera singer attempting to confront her past and a reprisal of her infamous role as Alienor d'Aquitaine, Queen of both England and France. After intermission, Wainwright recreates excerpts from Judy Garland's famous 1961 Carnegie Hall program, considered one of the greatest nights in showbiz history.

Innovative composer and violinist Daniel Roumain comes to Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts today, Feb. 22 for residency activities and a concert. The classically trained musician crosses genres and cultures; and is perhaps the only artist whose collaborations span the worlds of Philip Glass, Cassandra Wilson, Bill T. Jones, Savion Glover and Lady Gaga.

Miro Magloire presents his New Chamber Ballet in a program of two, as yet untitled, premieres, one by Magloire and one by guest dancer/choreographer Constantine Baecher, formerly with the Royal Danish Ballet, along with Lace and Moments, both by Magloire. Tonight, February 15 & the 16th, 8 PM in the City Center Studio 5, 130 West 56 Street.

Muhlenberg College will showcase world premiere dance works created by five of the region's most accomplished choreographers and two restagings by internationally acclaimed choreographers, in the College's annual 'Master Choreographers' dance concert, tonight, Feb. 7-9.

The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation presents SAVION GLOVER in SoLe SANCTUARY in the Fred Kavli Theatre at 8:00 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013.

Innovative composer and violinist Daniel Roumain comes to Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on Friday, Feb. 22 for residency activities and a concert. The classically trained musician crosses genres and cultures; and is perhaps the only artist whose collaborations span the worlds of Philip Glass, Cassandra Wilson, Bill T. Jones, Savion Glover and Lady Gaga.

The Joyce Theater announced the programming for its 2013 Spring/Summer Season featuring extraordinary international companies, including two festivals, one focusing on Nordic dance and the other on American ballet choreographers.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts today announces additional local, national and international performers, adding to the 35 partners listed below already announced in September 2013, as part of the program line-up for Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) 2013, March 28 to April 27, sponsored by TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank. With more than 50 festival performances and events taking place throughout Philadelphia, 50 regional arts and cultural partners, and 32 new works, PIFA 2013's If You Had a Time Machine….now includes the star talents of tap dance sensation and choreographer Savion Glover, jazz pianist and record producer Robert Glasper and Special Guests, Panamanian global jazz artist Danilo Pérez and Panama 500 Band, Instrumentalist and composer DJ Dan Deacon, Choir of King's College Cambridge, and more. Tickets go on sale to the public for all PIFA 2013 performances and events beginning Wednesday, January 23 at 10 a.m.

Miro Magloire presents his New Chamber Ballet in a program of two, as yet untitled, premieres, one by Magloire and one by guest dancer/choreographer Constantine Baecher, formerly with the Royal Danish Ballet, along with Lace and Moments, both by Magloire. February 15 & 16, 8 PM in the City Center Studio 5, 130 West 56 Street.

Muhlenberg College will showcase world premiere dance works created by five of the region's most accomplished choreographers and two restagings by internationally acclaimed choreographers, in the College's annual 'Master Choreographers' dance concert, Feb. 7-9.

Celebrity Series of Boston and World Music/CRASHarts collaborate to present Boston premiere of Savion Glover's homage to the late, great tap dance masters who came before him.

Celebrity Series of Boston and World Music/CRASHarts will present Savion Glover performing the Boston premiere of SoLe Sanctuary tonight, January 12, 8pm at The Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street, Boston.

The Little Orchestra Society (LOS) presents TUBBY THE TUBA narrated by Patti Smith, the iconic National Book Award-winner, rock musician and poet, on Saturday, March 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

For nearly four decades (1957-1994), Martha Swope was America's pre-eminent photographer of theater and dance, her discerning eye chronicling hundreds of classical ballets, modern dance, and Broadway performances and performers. But she also went behind-the-scenes, documenting what audiences never get to experience-the creative collaborations that make the magic on stage possible: rehearsals.

Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap. He wants to put tap back into the contemporary black context. In June of 2012, Glover appeared on the Eric Andre show and rejuvenated America's passion for tap dancing. Savion states his style is young and funk. When asked to describe what funk is, he says it is the bass line. Funk is anything that gets one's head on beat. It is riding with the rhythm. It is a pulse that keeps one rolling with the beat.