On tap: Savion Glover
Updated on 13 June 2007
The world's greatest tap dancer opens his first UK show at Sadlers Wells tonight.
He calls himself a hoofer. Others call him the greatest tap dancer there is.
From the shuffle to the "shim sham shimmy" - name a step and Glover can dance them all.
And he has managed to take tap dancing beyond its old fashioned image, adapting his cutting-edge style to the rhythms of modern jazz and hiphop.
Savion Glover interview
Nicholas Glass talks with the dance legend Savion Glover as he prepares for his first ever UK performance.
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