... Hoggett (American Idiot [2010], [2012]; Once [2012]; The Last Ship [2014]) onto Broadway and assess the diminishment of systems created by de Mille and Robbins. I also analyze Broadway insiders Savion Glover (Bring In Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk [1996], Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Sensation...

...], Once [2012], The Last Ship [2014]) onto Broadway and assess the diminishment of systems created by de Mille and Robbins. I also analyze Broadway insiders Savion Glover (Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk [1996], Shuffle Along, The Making...

...This chapter begins with a tap challenge between Colin Dunn and Savion Glover on the 39th Annual Grammy Awards and the percussive dance traditions—Irish step dancing and African American rhythm tap—to which each belonged. While the Afro-Irish challenge came from an old tradition, the 1990s burst...

... festival circuit. Despite tap’s continued segregation from mainstream modern American dance forms, and its ingrained misunderstanding by critics, such productions as Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap! and Savion Glover’s Classical Savion!, along with tap’s international...