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Dancer

The Beat Beneath Us opens the 2026 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival with a celebration of rhythm, movement, and Black creative power — placing the body itself at the center of the music.

The evening begins with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company, performing dances made in tribute to Max Roach, the iconic drummer, composer, and activist whose music reshaped jazz and whose artistic voice was deeply engaged with the civil rights movement. Drawing on Roach’s rhythmic innovation and political urgency, Brown’s choreography translates sound into movement — honoring Roach’s legacy through ensemble motion that is grounded, propulsive, and alive with history.

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The Flynn: Burlington Discover Jazz Festival

The Flynn

Songs of Black Folk returns to McCaw Hall, bringing a dynamic and immersive experience to the stage.

This year’s production will continue to honor the rich musical traditions that originated on the African continent, endured the horrors of slavery, and became a source of strength and resistance. From the rise of Negro Spirituals to the evolution of blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, hip-hop, and spoken word, Songs of Black Folk showcases how Black music has shaped and influenced culture worldwide.

Songs of Black Folk

Seattle Center

Savion Glover’s performance honors the legends of tap who mentored him and showcases his mastery. Additionally, it explores the intersection of self-expression and mental health. Glover stages the action in an asylum to emphasize the show’s mental health theme. There, he receives treatment for the transgressions that put him there.

Savion Glover Presents: SoUNDz.SaCRoSaNCt

Dakota

Savion Glover began as a prodigious student of the great Honi Coles and the late Gregory Hines. It was Hines who called him “possibly the best tap dancer that ever lived.” Glover has been boldly breaking new ground for over a quarter century.

Savion Glover Presents: Project 9

Two-time Tony winner Savion Glover returns to Joe’s Pub with SoUNdZ.SaCRoSaNCt, his latest creation of dance and theater mastery honoring the legends of “The Dance” who mentored him while exploring the intersection of self-expression and mental health.

Tap dancer, choreographer and actor Savion Glover is the epitome of a living legend. The tapping marvel has graced the stage since childhood. He set a record as the youngest person ever to receive a scholarship in the Newark Community School of the Arts. Before he was a teenager, Savion made his mark starring in the leading role in the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid.

Savion Glover’s SoUNdZ.SaCRoSaNCt

Joe's Pub

The most innovative and influential tap dancer of his generation returns with a new program. As always, the legendary hoofer’s show honors his mentors while exploring fresh territory on the tap floor with unmatched improvisational skills and explosive energy, all accompanied by live music.

Savion Glover

Empire State Plaza

In this brand-new adaptation, directed by Savion Glover" class="css-u850">Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn, Joey Evans is a Black jazz singer in the 1940s struggling to make it big his way, with his sound, on Chicago’s vibrant nightclub circuit. This Rodgers and Hart classic incorporates additional beloved tunes from the duo’s songbook, as well as an updated book by Richard LaGravenese and Daniel “Koa” Beaty.

Pal Joey

New York City Center

The Tony-winning phenomenon Savion Glover is “the greatest tap virtuoso of our time, perhaps of all time” (The New Yorker). For the final two nights of his residency, he honors the music and spirit of afro-futurist pioneer and avant-garde giant Sun Ra and his Arkestra, infusing these evenings of inspiring performances with meditative sound and dance intended to take the audience on an interstellar journey into Sun Ra’s heliocentric worlds.

SFJAZZ Center

The Tony-winning phenomenon Savion Glover is “the greatest tap virtuoso of our time, perhaps of all time” (The New Yorker). For the first two nights of his residency, he presents his new project SoUNDz’ SaCRoSaNcT— a heartfelt tribute to his mentor, friend, and teacher, the legendary Gregory Hines, as well as the legacy of the iconic dancers who pioneered and advanced the art form in the 1920s and 1930s.


Savion Glover: Soundz’ Sacrosanct

In If Trane Wuz Here, Savion Glover and reg e gaines (Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk) make a much-anticipated return to The Public Theater. Celebrating Coltrane’s genius, Glover and gaines with a special guest saxophonist use his magical melodies as suggestions for improvisation. Both homage to Coltrane and celebration of his music, If Trane Wuz Here is an inspirational and educational evening of music, dance and text.

Actor, Dancer

Savion Glover

Events

Past events

Jun 3, 2026

The Flynn: Burlington Discover Jazz Festival · Evidence Dance Company

Jun 22, 2025

Songs of Black Folk · McCaw Hall

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