Savion Glover may be the greatest tap dancer who ever lived but to most people he's only the model for cartoon penguin Mumble in Happy Feet. Tap-dancing has been fighting for its life since the great Broadway and Hollywood musicals, productions a million miles from tap's origins on the street corners of black America. Superb black hoofers starved while inferior white performers stole their artform and buffed away its personality, but Glover is the dazzling leader of a new pack of US soloists lighting flames of excitement in tap.
Sere New York ballet critics have called him a genius, tap-dance's Nureyev, the best they've seen. His dancing has been likened to bursts of firecrackers; he stamps his footprints on music from classical to funk. Glover makes his long-awaited British debut at Sadler's Wells - how can you stay away? 
Ismene Brown
Savion Glover, Sadler's Wells, Wed June 13 - Sat June 16.
FIRST POSTED JUNE 8, 2007
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