Gwen Verdon dances on Nursery tunes dedicated by D.Kaye to newborn Nicole Fosse (Danny Kaye Show 63)

[@amyralls6218]

Truly timless and absolutely beautiful! In 1963, I was 2 years old. It is now 2024, and I am 62 years old. It is still extraordinary!!

[@wildfireintexas]

Right there with you girlfriend.

[@lynnelovesroses4485]

Thank goodness for KZbin so I can see gems like this for the first time....just fabulous.

[@amyralls6218]

I agree 100%!!

[@silky0439]

Lord, I remember this! My baby brother was just born and I was 5 years old! Holy Cow!

[@lynn69jackson]

My big brother would have been around 2 months old when this was made.

[@donnariley2831]

I loved Danny Kaye and his TV show when I was a kid. Such wholesome entertainment. I miss it.

[@g2bk]

Gwen Verdon was among the best and too often not mentioned. Plus she endured marriage to Bob Fosse. One of my favorite MASH episodes is the one with her.. Sherm.

[@bluemountainmornings2544]

I came here to say that!

[@kmm2442]

Endured? Was he hard to live with?

[@sassymess7111]

Never seen the MASH episode but for some reason I was never a big fan. She was and will always be amazing. I LOVED her on the episode of FAME dancing with Debbie Allen!

[@sassymess7111]

​@@kmm2442 Yes. Professionally he was an absolute perfectionist. Privately he was a womanizer. Anne Reinking ( another talented dancer IMO) was his longtime mistress and there were others besides her. Basically watch ALL THAT JAZZ. Roy Scheider's character is based off of Bob Fosse down to the ginger haired wife who was a former dancer and Anne Reinking herself starring as the mistress.

[@kmm2442]

Thank you so much. Everything I wanted to know.

[@nonosays]

The artistry of Gwen Verdon is awe-inspiring.

[@pam0626]

This is beautiful -- the choreography, the arrangement, the staging. Truly the Golden Age of television. I wish Netflix, with its huge budget, could produce an hour long variety special like this.

[@melissaferguson5892]

How could anyone not like Danny Kaye. Look at that face!

[@marytheresejacksonlutz2533]

I can hear my mother singing these nursery rhymes to me. Mom loved this type of dance, music and choreography. Miss Verdon is marvelous

[@AussieKim42]

Not bad for a woman who had ricketts as a tiny child & spent her early years in calipers. ❤️ Dance classes were/are so important. 💙

[@anniejuan1817]

I agree. I think swimming lessons are a top priority, because that can save a child's life. But dance classes are a close second. Dance is a life skill!

[@songindarkness]

That’s amazing!

[@cherylrichards8951]

I hope Nicole has been able to share this with her children. What a family treasure.

[@juliedepaolo9971]

Wish they would still produce shows like this.

[@bonnizajac8916]

She was beyond talented and a wonderful person 💕

[@Bubblesrv81]

What?

[@libertygiveme1987]

That was quite LOVELY Gwen. I'm sure your daughter appreciated it when she got older.

[@mottawa1]

So talented and charming. When I was young in the ‘60’s I saw her in Sweet Charity in NYC.

[@Jettypilelegs]

So jealous!

[@mottawa1]

So playful and talented.

[@maryrosekent8223]

YOWZA!!!

[@Texaslawhorn]

That must have been amazing!

[@sheilapasquini6232]

What a marvelous talent she was. I hope she knew how much we will loved her and appreciated her. RIP, Gwen.

[@figmo397]

She's in such good form, it's hard to believe that she'd just popped out a baby six months earlier.

[@Elizabeth-rq1vi]

She’s a dancer who didn’t stop dancing or moving. She probably only gained a little over the baby, amniotic fluid & placenta.

[@Bubblesrv81]

How is it hard to believe. The lady was basically walking and moving her hands.

[@irmar]

@@Bubblesrv81 There was running and jumping too. And it needed rehearsals, doing the same routine many times, which needs stamina.

[@rejoyce318]

I came here after Fosse/Verdon. Thanks for posting. Clever movement canon during "3 Blind Mice."

[@LauraS1]

She did this 6 months post-birth. That's amazing by any standards, you know.

[@gullwingstorm857]

And now little Nicole is nearly sixty. Wow.

[@cynthiad4443]

Nobody moves like Verdon💙

[@libertygiveme1987]

Cynthia, with the exception of Donald O'Conner, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, etc,etc....

[@firefly5571]

@@libertygiveme1987 How about the Nicolas Brothers???

[@JudgeJulieLit]

None of the male dancers here commented on had Gwen's sylphine feminine body, early ballet training, nor exquisite grace. Every dancer is a unique terpsichorean instrument.

[@desireea.thomas2419]

How Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰 What a Blessed little girl to whom was going to receive this video.

[@johntucker7063]

Nicole Fosse grew up to be an actress and a dancer.

[@annic7995]

I really enjoyed this beautiful video! Nighty night everybody! 🥱😴

[@rutheliz75]

Beautiful choreography ! Thanks for posting.

[@abbatrouble]

Her ballet training really shows!

[@cherylmcnutt9905]

Beautiful, graceful, enchanting!

[@antonmarino6568]

Saw her in Sweet.Charity. fantastic

[@AvalonMorley]

Thank you so much for the chance to see more artistry from this marvelous woman. They really had some great stuff on TV back then. (There's some good stuff now too, but different.)

[@Gualtinho]

Imagine dancing like that six months after giving birth!

[@RedRooster123]

She was already a dancer, it wasn't hard. Runners keep running when pregnant and get back quickly as well.

[@originalredneckgirl]

They didn't do heart surgery or anything.. she just had a baby.. women are amazing like that ,

[@abigailwrigley6462]

@@originalredneckgirl the last Relaxin would be leaving her body after six months so this dance should be done with extreme care. For an elite athlete this is acceptable, for an average, healthy, fit woman, not yet. There is a huge amount of background knowledge and experience necessary to make this possible, never mind safe. These days hernias, piles, prolapses of more than just discs are much less common, because we know what all the processes are.

[@RedRooster123]

@@originalredneckgirl right?!

[@carolinemodenbach]

6 months is a very long time to heal after birth. Most women jump right back into their normal duties in very little time.

[@elizabethmurphy9384]

Imagine dancers this great with a great choreographer on staff week after week to creat dances this good.... every week.

[@pam0626]

It’s amazing, isn’t it? I love watching these variety shows on YT.

[@ggrother539]

gorgeous dancing!- the choreography feels fresh. Another one not to miss is ' What Lola wants '. funniest thing! genius. Thanks for this great post.

[@inketc.presents5584]

I love her work. It's no wonder Bob Fosse worked with her.

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

She did that barefoot in tights on a glossy surface. I used to fence, in shoes, on a floor like that, a basketball court. It took years not to slip around. She’s way more amazing than you think.

[@googlyeyedcat]

She has shoes on you can't tell very much because they match her tights. They kind of look like what male ballet dancers would have on.

[@marygoodson4920]

She has ballet slippers on.

[@nicolajaynehodson9223]

looks like she's got black canvas ballet flats on

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

@@googlyeyedcatAm familiar. Effectively barefoot. No traction.

[@amystephenson4719]

What a lovely gift to Nicole.

[@Twinzma]

Nicole was in the movie A Chorus Line. Bob Fosse is her dad 🥹 What a legendary family!

[@teijaflink2226]

Quite amazing to be the daughter of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse.

[@rrreverb]

I love Danny Kaye so much.

[@Sincere8250]

Loved Gwen Verdon!

[@patriciamartinez5836]

Love her. A great talent

[@susie2366]

What a sweet gift to children everywhere.

[@kathleengillespie5983]

What a talent this woman!

[@heidifluteatl]

That was really wonderful!!!!!

[@jmb5924]

Geesh…six months postpartum and she looks like that! Amazing dancer.

[@augustgirl]

Oh my God!!! That was phenomenal. Damn. And just precious af.

[@anaflaviapincernopouza9218]

Wonderful !

[@wildflowerwind6941]

Dancing and music was magical.

[@leandroseoane3791]

She was amazing!

[@JamesBrown-ij1px]

Magic.

[@xfhghe]

A mothers love expressed in the best way she knew how.

[@mycatisabastard2361]

I adore Gwen Verdon

[@EyeLean5280]

Aw this is sweet!

[@CarrienotScary]

This is sweet.

[@mariaruiz-ed2hy]

Maravillosa bailarina!!!

[@meglocklear]

So classy!

[@leeboriack8054]

Six months after having a baby, wow!

[@beverlybarnes3122]

Very ethereal Perfect

[@mickiegaffke929]

xxxoxoxoxo GWEN, WE LOVE YOU!

[@lisastuart7093]

Classic!

[@smokechub]

SMOOTH! 🤗

[@RIXRADvidz]

no wonder my mom had a crush on her. such grace and elegance

[@mizkel4604]

This is so precious!!!!! ❤❤❤

[@hanssolos3699]

the origin of twerking cos she woke up like this 🤣🤣🤣

[@erixxxblue2698]

that is art

[@m.theresacarozza8173]

Good choreography

[@aileencummins]

SHOW OFF!!! YEAH!!! YOU GO MAMA!

[@slothsluethe177]

Wow!!

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Fosse had to have choregraphed this ; it has signature moves .. 👌

[@cherylmcnutt9905]

She collaborated with the shows choreographer. She could have put those moves in.

[@elizabethmurphy9384]

Didn’t Tony Charmoli work as Assistant to Fosse?

[@kellyalves756]

@@elizabethmurphy9384Gwen was a talented choreographer in her own right- and handed the credit off to Fosse a lot of the time. I guarantee you nobody’s shortchanging Fosse by crediting the other two.

[@esmeephillips5888]

In its youth TV knew it could never compete with the cast-of-thousands spectacle, fancy settings and costumes of Broadway or Hollywood, and why try on small b&w screens? Economics and aesthetics both conduced to the unadorned chiaroscuro of studio floors such as this. It was the right environment in which to mainstream modern dance as interpreted by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, as well as the world-music fusions of Jack Cole. Back to basics: focus on the figures, not their trappings. The big Middle American audience ate up the likes of Fonteyn and Nureyev on Sullivan. Why not introduce them to post-classical movement? And so, courtesy of Fosse and Verdon, another phase in the eternal melding of the avant garde and sssshowtime! was achieved, to their mutual benefit. Some folks wanted high and low culture to keep their distance, and today many would like the artistic inheritances of different races to dwell under separate bell jars. But naughty old traditions keep escaping and mating. Promiscuity breeds novelty.

[@honeyjbc1]

Fabulos

[@phileasfoxx2006]

Спасибо!! Какая пластика...!!

[@MarkMastrocinque]

Not bad for a kid that had rickets.

[@cherylmcnutt9905]

Really?

[@MarkMastrocinque]

@@cherylmcnutt9905 Yes. As a child Gwen Verdon suffered from rickets.

[@cherylmcnutt9905]

@@MarkMastrocinque Oh! Poor thing! She certainly overcame that adversity!

[@JoanneTarhan]

Love this... just want to mention Danny Kaye's family was from Ukraine. I don't know where Gwen's family is from but she was so talented also!

[@sylviacueva7367]

Hoorayyyyyyyy!!!

[@AuntyM66]

Wow.

[@glomacari3306]

The Best x

[@oliviastar3812]

Is her little girl around now and did she ever comment on this performance done especially for her?

[@wookinooki9023]

music arranged by Aaron Copland?

[@johnpjones182]

Gwen had gams!

[@lynnmiller3937]

Go to 1:13

[@brianmcmillan7426]

childhood crush since Damn Yankees

[@mikenoble7005]

Bob Fosse choreography?

[@leeanneyoungman8028]

I’m guessing her daughter has seen by now.. 😁✨

[@TheBOG3]

Danny Kaye pronounces Gwen’s daughter, Nicole(‘s), name as “Neecole.” I’ve never heard anyone pronounce the name Nicole that way.

[@suzannerossiter1682]

Nice post

[@cvet_nastroeniya]

Сейчас даже как-то смешно на это смотреть))) ещё так талия неестественно утянута...

[@thebiscuitrose]

11 million dollars??

[@paulashe61]

Imagine being a professional dancer.

[@henrimatisse7481]

soo Gwen just gave birth?!

[@AdeleRafael-uc8ve]

Someone, ANYONE.... please HURRY and tell BEYONCE to WATCH this VIDEO....will TOTALLY go GREAT with her "country" (as real as her blonde hair) "music".....🤥🤥🤥....🤠

[@haroldgodwinson5981]

A different time

[@marktombazian6490]

I always wonder who the miserable, disenchanted people are who don't like this? ...and everything else that is about joy, happiness and love....who are they in their miserable lives of nothingness? Frankly, who cares?

[@bobtaylor170]

I have a cousin like that. 66. Humorless. Lifeless. Vicious.

[@bobtaylor170]

Mark, we have to keep trying to introduce people to the great things.

[@marktombazian6490]

Remember, we all become more or less of who we are. More? then happier, fulfilled, joyous, etc etc...Less? Sadder, angry, unfulfilled, etc etc. We become the way we are by choice. Regardless of what takes place, we choose how we will react, respond, respect, process and conclude and then carry-on. Our life is based on our choices. Choose the life you want. Live the results.

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[@critchley999]

Bizarre .. lol.

[@andycahill900]

Verdon is the perfect Fosse dancer. The dancers with her are very good but not Fosse-trained.

[@paules3437]

Ya know.. watching these three figures in black against a spare background reminds of Beyonce and All the Single Ladies. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ap6UdnmDpLd5rLs

[@Lola-Blue]

Wait....what? No twerking!?!?

[@janeflip1]

All she does is shake her hips and run in place!

[@aonickel]

I'm sorry you didn't like this clip. Unfortunately though (for you), your comment only shows your ignorance of dance. First of all, even if it was true that "All she does is shake her hips and run in place", you have no idea how difficult it is for a performer to do those things with such musicality, precision, grace, style and ease. Secondly I guess you didn't notice all the battements (kicks), pirouettes (turns), attitudes and arabesques (positions of the legs), elegant port de bras (arm movements) that she expertly did.

[@Agent.99]

What is wrong with her hips? Her waist is cinched in so weirdly just above giving a square shape to her hips. 3:21 Looks extremely uncomfortable

[@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd]

Bending over and looking through the legs at the camera isn't so nice dancewise.

[@andrewbeattie5637]

are we suppose to know who gwen verdon is?...i dont