$48.50–$68.50
MIM is hosting a special Meet and Greet with Savion Glover following the 8:00 p.m. concert. To purchase tickets to this event, click here.
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A supreme meeting of rhythm masters occurs with this inspired duet. The Tony Award–winning Savion Glover, an artist called “the greatest tap virtuoso of our time, perhaps of all time” (New Yorker), joins forces with drummer Marcus Gilmore, an heir to jazz royalty as the grandson of iconic drummer Roy Haynes and a dynamic musician known widely for his work with Vijay Iyer, Chick Corea, Steve Coleman, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and Ravi Coltrane. Gilmore’s ongoing work as part of Iyer’s incisive and award-laden trio, which blends slippery rhythmic sophistication with virtuoso contrasts in dynamics and texture, is the ultimate preparation to work with Glover, where rhythm and melody converge.
Savion Glover Beginning as a prodigious student of the great Honi Coles and the late Gregory Hines, who called him “possibly the best tap dancer that ever lived,” Savion Glover has been boldly breaking new ground for twenty-five years. Only twelve when he appeared on Broadway in The Tap Dance Kid, Glover made his film debut alongside Hines and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1989’s Tap. He received a 1992 Drama Desk nomination for his appearance in Jelly’s Last Jam on Broadway and became a cultural phenomenon in 1996 when George C. Wolfe showcased his dazzling rhythmic dexterity in Bring in ’Da Noise / Bring in ’Da Funk (which earned Glover a Tony Award for Best Choreography). There are few artists who embody, redefine, and radically expand their art form, but Glover stands tall as an elemental creative force who has returned tap to its roots while opening up vast expanses for fresh exploration.
Marcus Gilmore Already one of New York’s most in-demand young drummers at age twenty-three, Marcus Gilmore has performed around the world with some of today’s best known contemporary artists, including Chick Corea, Natalie Cole, Cassandra Wilson, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Roy Hargrove, Raul Midón, and many others. Gilmore has been repeatedly featured in world-renowned publications such as the New York Times, DownBeat magazine, and Modern Drummer.
Glover is the greatest tap virtuoso of our time, perhaps of all time.
—New Yorker