“My funk is a groove that you can ride — but it’s got to be a deep groove,” says Savion Glover

Excerpt from The New York Times on 1996 run of “Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk:”

"Nor is Mr. [Savion] Glover alone on stage with the beat: in the course of his career he has wooed away other young converts from "show tap" to "rhythm tap," four of whom appear with him in "Bring in da Noise."

…The reserved and rubber-jointed Baakari Wilder and the cheeky Vincent Bingham were the local whiz kids in a Washington tap show that Mr. Glover starred in four years ago; the drop-dead nonchalant Jimmy Tate and Mr. Eager All-American Dule Hill were child stars with Mr. Glover in "The Tap Dance Kid." Mr. Glover found the young drummers in the show, Jared Crawford and Raymond King, during the run of "Black and Blue": they were performing on the sidewalk outside the theater. "I want everybody, all my friends," Mr. Crawford recalled Mr. Glover saying when "Bring in da Noise" was proposed.

As he made up the fiendish steps, the other young tappers waded in bravely. "I'm sure Einstein was surprised by not everybody knowing how to split an atom," said Jimmy Tate, at 26 the oldest of the bunch (and chief of his own funk rock band called Lapdog). The very maleness of the dancing left the field open for the concept of "woman." As the show came together, the lone female in the cast, the green-eyed Ms. Duquesnay, she of the "ripe rich voice and the sexy purple gown" (in the words of the Los Angeles Times), turned into its oracle, witness, girlfriend, maid, mother and goddess.

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The New York Times: Bring in Da Noise Steps Uptown, Feet First (1996)