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Savion Glover

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Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973) is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. [1]

62 relations: Academy Awards, Actor, Arthur Duncan, Attack Me with Your Love, Bamboozled, Barbra Streisand, Black and Blue (musical), Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Bojangles (film), Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk, Buster Brown (musician), Cameo (band), Charles Coles, Choreography, Chuck Green, Dance, Danny Daniels, Dianne Walker, Dick Lundy (baseball), Drama Desk Award, Grammy Award, Gregory Hines, Happy Feet, Happy Feet Two, Henry Krieger, Henry LeTang, Howard Sims, Jelly Roll Morton, Jelly's Last Jam, Jimmy Slyde, John Lahr, Kenny G, Louise Fitzhugh, Music Box Theatre, NAACP Image Awards, Negro league baseball, Newark Eagles, Newark, New Jersey, Playbill, Sammy Davis Jr., Saturday Night Live, Sean Combs, Sesame Street, Sheryl Underwood, Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, Soul Train Music Awards, Tap (film), Tap dance, Ted Louis Levy, The Jamie Foxx Show, ..., The New York Times, The Talk (talk show), The Wall (1998 American film), Timeless (Barbra Streisand), Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Choreography, Trabbi Goes to Hollywood, TV Guide, United States, Vivian Matalon, Whitney Houston, YouTube. Expand index (12 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Arthur Duncan

Arthur Duncan (born September 25, 1933) is an American tap dancer, known for his stint as a performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1964 to 1982, which made him the first African-American regular on a variety television program.

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Attack Me with Your Love

"Attack Me With Your Love" is a song by Cameo.

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Bamboozled

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.

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Black and Blue (musical)

Black and Blue is a musical revue celebrating the black culture of dance and music in Paris between World War I and World War II.

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Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1974, in Oakland, California.

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Bojangles (film)

Bojangles is an American biographical drama that chronicles the life of entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949).

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Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk

Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk is a musical that debuted Off-Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater in 1995 and moved to Broadway in 1996.

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Buster Brown (musician)

Buster Brown (August 15, 1911 – January 31, 1976) was an American blues and R&B singer best known for his hit, "Fannie Mae".

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Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s.

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Charles Coles

Charles “Honi” Coles (April 2, 1911 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor and tap dancer.

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.

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Chuck Green

Charles "Chuck" Green (November 6, 1919 – March 7, 1997) was an American tap dancer.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Danny Daniels

Daniel Giagni Jr., (October 25, 1924 – July 7, 2017), known as Danny Daniels, was an American choreographer, tap dancer, and teacher.

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Dianne Walker

Dianne Walker (born March 8, 1951), also known as Lady Di, is a tap dancer Her thirty-year career spans Broadway, television, film, and international dance concerts.

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Dick Lundy (baseball)

Richard Benjamin Lundy (July 10, 1898 – January 5, 1962) was an African American shortstop in the Negro Leagues for numerous teams.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually and were first awarded in 1955 to recognize excellence in New York theatre productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gregory Hines

Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer.

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Happy Feet

Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-American computer-animated musical family comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller.

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Happy Feet Two

Happy Feet Two is a 2011 3D computer-animated family comedy film directed, produced and co-written by George Miller.

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Henry Krieger

Henry Krieger (born February 9, 1945 in New York City) is an American musical theatre composer.

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Henry LeTang

Henry LeTang (June 19, 1915April 26, 2007) was an American theatre, film, and television choreographer and a dance instructor.

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Howard Sims

Howard "Sandman" Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003) was an African-American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville.

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Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam is a musical with a book by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and music by Jelly Roll Morton and Luther Henderson.

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Jimmy Slyde

James Titus Godbolt (October 2, 1927 – May 16, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Slyde and also as the "King of Slides", was a world-renowned tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz.

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John Lahr

John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr.

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Kenny G

Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5, 1956), better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American saxophonist.

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Louise Fitzhugh

Louise Fitzhugh (October 5, 1928 – November 19, 1974) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books, known best for the novel Harriet the Spy.

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Music Box Theatre

The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in Midtown Manhattan, NY.

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Award is an annual awards ceremony presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.

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Negro league baseball

The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans.

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Newark Eagles

The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.

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Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers.

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Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor and comedian.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Sean Combs

Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love and Brother Love is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Sheryl Underwood

Sheryl Patrice Underwood (born) is an American comedian, actress and television host.

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Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed is a musical with a score by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle and a libretto by George C. Wolfe, based on the original book of the 1921 musical revue Shuffle Along, by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles.

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Soul Train Music Awards

The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication, and honors the best in Black music and entertainment.

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Tap (film)

Tap is a 1989 dance drama film written and directed by Nick Castle.

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Tap dance

Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion.

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Ted Louis Levy

Ted Louis Levy (born April 25, 1960) is an American tap dancer, singer, choreographer, and director.

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The Jamie Foxx Show

The Jamie Foxx Show is an American television sitcom that aired on The WB from August 28, 1996, to January 14, 2001.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Talk (talk show)

The Talk is an American talk show that debuted on October 18, 2010, as part of CBS's daytime programming block.

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The Wall (1998 American film)

The Wall is a 1998 made for TV anthology film that first aired on Showtime on May 24, 1998.

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Timeless (Barbra Streisand)

Timeless was a concert tour by entertainer Barbra Streisand.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Choreography

The Tony Award for Best Choreography is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of choreographers in both musicals and plays.

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Trabbi Goes to Hollywood

Trabbi Goes to Hollywood (English title: Driving Me Crazy) is a 1991 US comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub, starring Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Dom DeLuise, and James Tolkan.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vivian Matalon

Vivian Matalon (born 11 October 1929) is a British theatre director.

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Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savion_Glover

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