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" I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died. "

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" The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create. "

Savion Glover

Youth

Blessing

Create

" I love riding my ATV 450. "

" When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins! "

Savion Glover

Yes

About

" I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them. "

" My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.' "

Savion Glover

Dance

Mom

" It wasn't until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called 'Black and Blue,' and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began. "

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

" I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon. "

" I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new. "

" I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye. "

" There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on. "

Savion Glover

Dance

Class

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

" I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet. "

" 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

Know

Will

" I don't like being too serious. I'm the type of person that, if the mike isn't in the right place when I go on, I just move it. Other people, they'll be all frantic. I'm more relaxed. "

" For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself. "

" My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and more musicality. But because of my upbringing, my fabulous mentors and teachers that I've had throughout my dance journey or career, I also possess a style that is of the past. It was just a matter of me reaching back. "

Savion Glover

Past

Style

" It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor. "

" I can hold a note, but that's about it. "

" I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet. "

Savion Glover

Think

Genius

" There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.' "

" I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms. "

" If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me. "

Savion Glover

Just

Ownership

" I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer. "

" The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can. "

" A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form. "

" Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it. "

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

" I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics. "

" Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through. "

Savion Glover

Jimmy

Dance