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I'm a basketball freak.
I love riding my ATV 450.
I can hold a note, but that's about it.
When I wake up in the morning, I just go.
I'm committed to the purity of my art form.
I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.
My style is ever evolving. My style is tomorrow.
I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move.
I actually wanted to be a fireman when I was younger.
I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.
I'm inspired by breath, by the human body - by so many things.
I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.
I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.
My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.
Dancing is like life. The lessons of one are the lessons of the other.
Every performance is different because I'm different; my mood is different.
Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.
My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.
I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life.
There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.'
When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!
I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.
I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings.
They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.
We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.
A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form.
I'm just blessed, man. I'm just happy to share my art form with everyone. That's cool.
Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.
Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer.
I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.
I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.
Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.
Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused.
What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.
I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.
Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.
If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.
I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.
Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.
I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.
There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple.
I like to be around dancers who are totally committed to the art form, totally committed to the men and women around them.
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.
Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through.
I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.
I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.
I'm always inspired by music, things of that nature. Just life in general. I'm happy to be waking up and having another chance at it.
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.