| Summary: | Tap dancer and choreographer Savion Glover was born on November 19, 1973 in Newark, New Jersey. Glover first appeared on Broadway at ten years old in The Tap Dance Kid. He danced in Black and Blue in 1988, and made his film debut dancing with Gregory Hines in Tap (1989). In 1991, Glover portrayed a young Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam, and, in 1996, choreographed and starred in Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk. He would also appear in Spike Lee's Bamboozled in 2000. Glover, who first taught tap when he was fourteen years old, opened his tap school, the HooFeRzCLuB School for TaP, in Newark in 2009. Glover choreographed the 2016 Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and received numerous honors, including a Tony Award for best choreography and a Tony nomination for best actor. He was the youngest recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
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