Tapworkz
Tap Dance-ImPuls

Over the course of our three days spent with the students and participants, we will concentrate on the history and some certain specific traditions surrounding the art form of Tap Dancing and The Hooferz. While exploring the theory / musicality in one's approach to tap dance, it is also a part of our mission to help the students be able to identify with the creative process that can revise and refine their own approach to Tap Dancing. 
 
I am honored at this opportunity to be sharing with you a taste of the knowledge on Tap Dancing that has been so graciously handed down to us from some of the greatest performing Hooferz to date.
 
Thank you for your interest and we look forward on spending time with all of you as we prepare to continue on spreading the joy through Tap Dance entering a realm beyond the combination. 




Savion Glover
Savion Glover (hoofer, father, husband) Broadway and film credits include The Tap Dance Kid, Black and Blue, Jelly’s Last Jam, Bring in ‘Da Noise Bring in ‘Da Funk, the movie Tap starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr., Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, and tap choreographer of the acclaimed Academy Award Winning 2006 Warner Brothers release of Happy Feet. Mr. Glover is thankful and enjoys being able to tour around the world performing with some of the greatest entertainers to date. Praise Almighty God.

Marshall Davis Jr.
Marshall Davis Jr. (hoofer) was born in Miami Beach, Florida. He began tap dancing at the age of 10 at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center. By the age of 11, he was a finalist in the Philip Michael Thomas Rising Star Competition and was the 1989 Florida winner for the Tri-Star Pictures Tap Day contest, a promotion for the movie Tap starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr.

At age of 13, he accepted a check from Ed McMahon for winning the coveted 1991 Star Search Teen Dance Champion. Since winning, he has performed in Europe, Japan and throughout the United States. Marshall's dancing is most heavily influenced by his mentor, the late Steve Condos of the CONDOS BROTHERS. He has also received training from Buster Brown, Edwin Holland, Paul Kennedy, Ted Levy, Lavaughn Robinson and Sam Weber. He performed in the Tony award-winning Broadway and touring production of Bring in Da' Noise Bring in Da' Funk starring and choreographed by Savion Glover. Prior to that he performed at the Guthrie Theater as Pocket in Babes in Arms directed by Garland Wright.

Named "Most Unusual Dance Soloist" by The Miami Herald for his rendition of the Morton Gould Tap Concerto, Marshall is also the recipient of Isaac Hayes' Breaking the Barrier Award for his achievements at such an early age. He was most recently honored by Savion Glover "for giving tirelessly to the Spirit and Legacy of Tap Dancing." He performed at the Joyce Theater and is touring with Savion Glover.