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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Savion Glover
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Savion Glover.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 5 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Tap dancer and choreographer Savion Glover was born on November 19, 1973 in Newark, New Jersey. Glover first appeared on Broadway at ten years old in The Tap Dance Kid. He danced in Black and Blue in 1988, and made his film debut dancing with Gregory Hines in Tap (1989). In 1991, Glover portrayed a young Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam, and, in 1996, choreographed and starred in Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk. He would also appear in Spike Lee's Bamboozled in 2000. Glover, who first taught tap when he was fourteen years old, opened his tap school, the HooFeRzCLuB School for TaP, in Newark in 2009. Glover choreographed the 2016 Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and received numerous honors, including a Tony Award for best choreography and a Tony nomination for best actor. He was the youngest recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Savion Glover
Savion Glover
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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