“As the film’s endless credits crawl past, one finds Mr. Glover listed way down the line, as Mumble’s dancer and choreographer. In a recent full-page Happy Feet advertisement in The New York Times there is a giant picture of Mumble, his feet obscured by more credit boilerplate. The film’s multiple award nominations are trumpeted. The stars who provide the characters’ voices (Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Hugo Weaving) are listed twice, once in the middle of the page above the title and again down below with still more voice-over actors, in the credits proper, those that cover those happily tapping feet. There is a special oval boasting about the presence of Prince and Gia Farrell on the soundtrack. There are the four writers and the one composer and four executive producers and three producers.

“But no mention whatsoever of Savion Glover, the artist without whom Mr. Miller felt the picture could not have been made.”

Savion Glover