A Hip-Hop Artist Turns to Classical

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'CLASSICAL SAVION'

Joyce Theater

Tuesday through Jan. 23.

Bring In da Bach, Bring In da Mendelssohn (Keep the Fresh Energy)

By SYLVIANE GOLD

Published: January 2, 2005

The most admired feet in showbiz are clad in big - very big - tan work shoes, and the famous dreads are hidden under the hood of a black sweatshirt. Slouched on a metal folding chair in a rented studio to talk about his new show, Savion Glover has the look of a wary, languid teenager, not a 31-year-old dynamo whose walloping tap dance revivified an American art form and opened it to the hip-hop generation.

But as he explains why he's returning to the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, not with an encore of last winter's hugely successful song-and-dance turn, "Improvography," but with "Classical Savion," an entirely new show set to classical music, a burst of soft, filigreed tapping erupts from the floor.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/arts/dan...sylv.html?8hpib