Today is Savion Glover’s 50th birthday. Thinking of that great dancer\/choreographer always reminds me of one of my odder cinematic experiences.<\/p>\n
In 2006 I went out to the movies with some friends to see Happy Feet<\/i>, an animated film about dancing penguins (although not the first — Mary Poppins got there first). I enjoyed the movie ok, but the thing I really loved about the movie was the tap dancing.<\/p>\n
Now here is the weird part. Every time the lead penguin danced, it was obvious to me that I was watching the tap dancing of Savion Glover. It was as though I was watching the man himself — visualized as a penguin, but still inimitably himself.<\/p>\n
Sure enough, his name was listed in small print buried somewhere in the end credits. He had not only choreographed the dances, but they had motion-captured the man himself.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed it, but there was something odd about it. The one thing that delighted me about that movie — the dancing — was only credited in a kind of “blink and you’ve missed it” way.<\/p>\n
And don’t even get me started on Being John Malkovich<\/i> and Phil Huber…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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