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It was fasten your seatbelt as Savion Glover took off flying on opening night of his three-week season at The Joyce Theater in New York. He used his voice as another musical instrument, and rather than trying to "sell" a song, laughed through the tunes. He even notated the rhythms of his music out loud, something all tap dancers do in their heads. He joked and quoted old hoofers, dead and alive. He trance-danced, staring into some far off space, and took us through four decades of style: swing, bop, cool, and hip hop. In the middle of every set, he would suddenly slow down the time, and become a lounge lizard crooning and shim shamming along a diagonal to "I've got the routine ... so …