The crowd has gone and I'm still clapping for Savion Glover's
SoLe Sanctuary. Rhythm-rhythm-rhythm is smack-dab center spotlight in Glover's show - but, there is the conscious balance of stillness too. No Busby Berkeley pretty girls, no glitz and dazzle - or musical shenanigans to pad the performance... because here - with Savion Glover - are the feet and the legs and the heartbeat, ears and memory of a tap-dancing hoofer who knows his art - the art of pure rhythm pouring forth from his soul to his soles.
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| Savion Glover SoLe Sanctuary program flyer - with addition of blue. |
Reading the program flyer, prior to the show - there was promise the performance would be good - for the text itself was full of rhythm and thought: "Entering the Monastery of His Out'ness, Gee Oh Dee, Tranes Tribute, Holy Strings, The High Priest of Gone, Improvography, Directed and Choreographed by Spirits Known, Meditation on the Art of Tap" - and listen to these rhythmic names... "Little Nuk Nuk, Cat Daddy".
And the performance overview: "Savion Glover's Reverence for the Art of Tap is Put to the Stage Literally in the Form of a Living Altar... ."
If you are a fan of tap, rhythm, percussion, drum, bass - You just have to see SoLe Sanctuary for yourself. The miraculous, glorious racket Glover - and hoofer Marshall Davis Jr. - make with their feet, I can only aspire to create with my typewriter.
As a Bravo-Encore-Shout-Out, here is my ode to SoLe Sanctuary:
Savion Glover, Sound Your Shoes
Shiva Nataraj of Clackety-Clack
Train on Track
Percussive Locomotion
Mediatation of a Hoofer's Soul
Circle and Slide
on Life's Rhythm-Ride
Tic Toc
Clip Clop
Drum Staccato
Pizzicato
Whisper-Crash and Clatter
pitter-patter-Morse Code
Ode
to the Universe Pulse
Om
All Sounds
Yin-and-Yang-of-Still-and-Quick
Quick and Still, Yang and Yin
Song Stepper
Hands Together
