A child prodigy at tap dance in his native America, Savion Glover rubbed shoulders with the top performers. Bringing radical changes to his art, he was a triumphant success in Broadway. This is his first appearance at the Théâtre de la Ville.
Bolting steps accelerating madly peck and tap, strike and click in a feverishly swinging cadence… Tap dance, according to Savion Glover, precipitates one’s rhythmic patterns and jolts one’s whole body. This virtuoso dancer moves his feet as a jazz drummer his sticks. He brings a fresh inspiration to the genre by blending in elements from be-bop and hip-hop and leaving behind the quaint glitter of the music hall. In Bare Soundz his musical choreography is organized around successive trios. Perched on three resonant wooden platforms, swathed in different shades of lighting, light being their only scenery, the threesome engages in a lively stichomythia. Whenever Savion Glover, with his dreadlocks and short beard, starts an undulating riff, which then turns into exuberant clinking, Marshall L. Davis and Maurice Chestnut take up the same sequence either in counterpoint or in unison. In this show, the art of tap dance displays the most stunning of polyphonies.
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