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).
"In SoLo in TiME Mr. Glover riffs on famed compositions, including
Chick Corea's "Spain" and Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue," lending them tenderness and funk. But in his duets with La Conja there is the start of something new: Mr. Glover has found a potent meeting point between unadorned, musical approach to tap and flamenco's raw passion."-New York Times (2009)
KIMMEL CENTER, INC., a charitable, not-for-profit organization, owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center. Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the University of the Arts' Merriam Theater. Our mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience which includes providing arts in education, community outreach and a rich diversity of programming. The 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Citi, and the Broadway 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Verizon, and American Airlines. For additional information, visit kimmelcenter.org.
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