Tony Award winner Savion Glover brings SoLo in TiME to Philadelphia on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. Best known for his gravity defying tap dancing percussive techniques on stage, Glover's new program is a continuation of the HooFeRzCLuB tap dancing percussiveness-exploring tap as sound, and sound as dance. Joining Glover on stage for a live, rhythmic flamenco performance is Latino band La Conja & The Saintz and Bare Soundz, dance members of Glover's HooFeRzCLuB.
"The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into the earth and giving energy back to the earth," says Glover. "It's a cry and a celebration. That's what music, sound, vibration should do. It should spark energy in someone."Tickets for Savion Glover are available from $33 to $65, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.)A Newark, New Jersey native, Savion Glover is best known for his work on Broadway and the Obie award-winning smash hit Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, which solidified his name as one of the greatest and innovative dancers of all time. Glover made his Broadway debut at the age of 12 in The Tap Dance Kid, and has been electrifying audiences with his percussive tap dance performances for close to thirty years. Glover's dedication to tap has reached plateaus far and wide: from Tony nominated Broadway musical Black and Blue (1989) to children's television series Sesame Street (1990 to 1995), to films such as Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000) and the animated film Happy Feet (2006).
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