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Jimmy Tate talks improvisation
2007 interview: “Improvisational work helped me to discover motivation and purpose in every moment that I am dancing.”

“My funk is a groove that you can ride — but it’s got to be a deep groove,” says Savion Glover
A 1996 profile from The New York Times of “Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk”

Story of Tap as the Story of Blacks (1995)

‘Tap Dance Kid’ settles into role
The New York Times interview of Jimmy Tate (1984): “I like them to like me because I’m me, not just because I’m the Tap Dance Kid.”