Bob Fosse's Iconic Choreography from Sweet Charity | TUNE

[@MicaFarrierRheayan]

The girl looks so sassy and so precise. You can see that even her eyes are so enigmatic. The camera angle are so on point and the oversimplified set (specially the color palette) are insanely hypnotizing!

[@roguejester4986]

Suzanne Charney was excellent.

[@lilth501]

Wow she's as old as my mum. Still here today

[@robbedontuesday]

@@roguejester4986 incredibly (and criminally) overlooked... I am happy she is now fully focused on her sculptures.

[@bassdivamtm]

@@roguejester4986wondered who she was!

[@dozeyrosie645]

The video shows just how timeless "the little black dress" is.

[@daanisch]

it looks like she's playing an actress pretending to be an actress from the sixties

[@HeatherValentineMsFoodie]

😂😂😂😂

[@cv1909]

Its not timeless it started in the 20th century post 1st war when women bodies started to become exposed by men in the media. You can see the before and after really well. Women started to use small clothes while men could keep their dignity. Its sexist. Its disguised as ok and timeless but its not its part of a huge trap in a package that bear many things degrading for women.

[@WuWei7]

​@@daanischIt was definitely the 1960s. Originally choreographed for the Broadway show in 1966 then updated for the movie in 1969.

[@beth12svist]

​@@WuWei7 Fairly sure they were just making a humorous point about the timelessness.

[@WereMike]

I know that professional dancers are in tremendous physical shape and have great coordination and stamina but these routines look like a brutal core workout...and the precision and postures throughout it all, sheesh.

[@CortexNewsService]

That's what always gets me about this scene. The way they move bodies almost doesn't seem real.

[@tamagotchiocean]

Yes it is brutal. I learned some of fosse’s choreography in my jazz class and let me tell you… it was like bootcamp. That class was the best shape I’ve ever been in my life and i probably lost 20lbs. It’s the entire reason I’m still so muscular now. My teachers were super militant.

[@sweetspirit_peg419]

Isolations are not as easy as they appear to be when done with Fosse technique.

[@lilth501]

Like a movie the entire scene is broken up into a set of individual parts, shot over many hours or likely over many days. This dance sequence has been meticulously crafted!, It's total mod...

[@Glittersword]

I just realized where I saw that wavy motion with the hands and arms before. The fake female alien in Mars Attacks

[@GregginHOU]

The musical numbers in "Sweet Charity" are peak late 60s. If I knew nothing whatsoever about this movie and you showed me any of the musical numbers and asked me "when was this movie made?" I would have said 1967. 😁

[@ReesorPark]

Very close. 1969

[@jeffkile5015]

That is largely because Fosse's art so completely defined this era.

[@thedabara2477]

Also, only men actually living in the late 1960's would get the sideburns right. If you hired men from the 21st century to recreate this, they wouldn't have it exactly. Of course, in order to make this comment sound at all authoritative, that means I must also be from 1969, as indeed I am. (Just a side note, the other difficult thing to recreate, with any degree of verisimilitude, is a world that is just discovering blue jeans. Not surprisingly, Quentin Tarantino did a good job in Once Upon A Time . . . because that's the sort of detail he excels at reproducing.)

[@eschwarz1003]

awesome powerful time

[@dr.medieval1131]

This number is so stylishly unreal, it almost feels like animation.

[@jkg5215]

Yes, feels like old hand drawn caricatures, like old mickey mouse animation style.

[@nekograce7914]

Ahhh the 60s. A technicolor fever dream of fabulous choreography.

[@texasgigi3684]

Exactly! I totally agree!

[@RichardBarnett-hs1qy]

Let's hear it for the dancers!

[@Gee-xb7rt]

This has always been my favorite musical, and so many people think I'm weird for it, its big mad campy genius.

[@AT1972ASDF]

This choreography is utterly bizarre, and I can't stop watching

[@casper7319]

Something that i love about oldfilms is that they dont take out the steps sounds. A lot of modern musicals take it out and just play the audio which takes away the impact of a lot of the moves

[@itscarolinequeen]

I think the foley artist actually put the step sounds back in

[@TopHatNat]

It's ASMR before ASMR was a thing.

[@ptonpc]

From what I can tell, based on other videos of this sequence, the step sounds have been put back in. When I do not know.

[@НАТАЛЬЯ-к9э3ь]

Вы не в курсе, что такое степ?

[@ValeriePallaoro]

There's a particular class of film employee called the foley artist. In this case the dancers danced, and the music and any ambient sound was added later. The composer in charge of the music, and the foley artist in charge of the steps, the bing noises, anything else. It was complex and a skilled job. One that this film could not do with out.

[@MLA0686]

Omg the male dancers were also phenomenal

[@thedezimichele]

Yes that slayed, and this was before White Nights!

[@hamsterdiving7593]

You know a choreographer is brilliant when you first watched this as an 8 year old and haven't seen it since, but you remember it even after 56 years because of the quirky hand/wrist movements... ❤

[@janieroberts8895]

Same here. I'm 59 and watched this as a little girl. I remember the girl slinging her ponytail around. Very memorable.

[@zoezwar9911]

@@janieroberts8895me too😅

[@dagenesskum]

had a similar experience, when i was seven and watched Liza with a Z - Fosse makes an impact, clearly

[@drot13]

I found it a month ago and I can't stop thinking about those hand/wrist movements and ponytail...

[@robertjohnston8690]

@@janieroberts8895 I was 5, remember my mum and dad watching it, we tried to do some of the moves.

[@Ciclopea2]

I unironically love it, not only Fosse's brilliance as a choreographer, it's that 60's swagger infused in their movements, and how Bob painted these pictures that became a cornucopia of intricate shapes the human body can create and how everything flowed and looked harmonious, like kinetic art. If i was a dancer it would be the thrill of a lifetime to perform a Bob Fosse choreo.

[@PrimoLife2]

What you said!!!

[@hellyan35867]

It's amazing. But also, I thought it was a modern parody of 60's dancing at first, which shows you how iconic and timeless the actual performance is.

[@quentinduplooy9868]

I've seen some fantastic contemporary versions of this choreography. They seem sanitised. To tight, these dancers have a fabulous hippy era individuality about them, which kinda sorta makes it so typical of it's time

[@arturocostantino623]

Much more mod than hippie but yeah

[@marytheresejacksonlutz2533]

I never get tired of watching this. So much fun and they throw in Ben Vereen too

[@mst3kpimp]

I don't think that's Ben, he shorter than that.

[@doloresbriseno2567]

That is Ben Vereen. He posted the dance on his IG. Plus I know his voice and those moves anywhere.

[@marytheresejacksonlutz2533]

@@doloresbriseno2567 I knew it was Ben Vereen too

[@maxoreilly2698]

Ben Vereen😍

[@aimee-lynndonovan6077]

Have to watch again. Really great choreography. Love the diversity and brown skin makeup.🙌🏾

[@StephenLagan-m4v]

I just can't get over Lead Dancer Suzanne Charney here. It's a performance that by all rights should be iconic- perfectly aloof countenance, a body made of rubber, technique for days, wearing a pony tail so heavy it hurt and pull-burned her scalp and shoes that were a size too small! And she's perfection here!!!

[@thomasdequincey5811]

It's strange, stupid and brilliant at the same time. Fosse was a maverick.

[@carolcox302]

He was bloody brilliant.

[@amialal4510]

@@carolcox302 A genius! I was 20 when I saw All That Jazz in 1982 in communist Hungary. I didn't even know what it was but I was mesmerized. It's just grown over the years! Never get tired of his work. I've watched ATJ a zillion times! 😂

[@mhm8922]

You could not have said it better.

[@Walkerwitchyworld]

Yes, it is all those things rolled into one 😊

[@CommieBukkakie]

we here in the homosexual world call that "camp"

[@emacias1980]

Austin Powers dancing makes so much sense to me now. Love this. Edit: thanks for all the likes. Much Love 💜

[@rexnemo]

Yes he was transported back through time to the set of this film but the footage was cut .😜

[@zyxw2024]

I'm of this era. This is when free style dance began. The 1970s in discos was heaven on Earth.

[@Stoicisbetter]

Austin Powers nailed this!🥰

[@wplants9793]

Best comment I’ve heard in a long time

[@waterkaren3636]

I keep waiting for him to jump out 😀🤣

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

Everything is part of the Choroe- the smoke, the lighters, the fingertips, the face - such attention to detail!

[@organiccher64]

I'm amazed at how people can remember all those moves..incredible.

[@Angyyyyy]

The more you study dance, the more you can memorize. And of course so many rehearsal

[@gordonscott6180]

Fun science fact: This was the actual moment at which the 1960s reached peak groovyness. If things had continued to get much groovier, there might have been a Critical Groove Event, possibly chilling out all life on earth and projecting dangerous waves of groove like, far out into universe, man... Fortunatly, the 70s began shortly afterwards, and rising levels of funkyness were able to stabilize the accumulated groove.

[@Agustin-ri1ih]

In my head I automatically read that in Austin Power's voice.

[@kenaldri4923]

Yes, and the seventies also brought a rising level of nerdiness that would continue through the 90's and beyond. "Groovy" required a healthy amount of physical beauty, but that became increasingly frowned upon or considered sexist.

[@jimbarino2]

I actually heard it as Basil Exposition...

[@Nostromo2144]

Grooveeeeee baby!

[@michaellee860]

Where would the 80's have taken us if that decade hadn't been stopped?

[@sabatheus]

Those fluid arm movements are mesmerizing!

[@Cat_Woods]

It made it look at times as if they had no bones.

[@MuMu-fu7qe]

I can just imagine how incredibly mind-blowing this must have been when it first came out. Still mesmerizing after all these decades.

[@mamacitaslove]

My wrists hurt just watching lol. What a brilliant story teller he was. Such un natural movements made to move together. Wow.

[@groomys67]

Same here, just one of them though.

[@barbaro_24]

For a while, I watched this movie thinking it was a movie in 2024. The costumes, choreography, and dancers' performances never feel old. so cool!!

[@janezamudio4940]

It does feel very contemporary.

[@deepfriedokra]

They do feel old to me. If they felt more recent it wouldn’t be as cool. What new anything is close to being as good as this?

[@TheWorld_2099]

The intelligence, humor and satire in this choreography is incredible

[@charlesbird781]

The choreography is like an impeccably made timepiece that runs counterclockwise.

[@Peter-r8l8m]

sister is WHIPPING that pony... amazing

[@Haley497]

Ministery of Silly Walks approved. Brilliant!

[@suhseal]

Ben Vereen at the end gives an energy that’s unmatched. And at the finale of something so brilliant too. Goddamn

[@MrRoyobentoni]

Now I know why he's exalted in the dance community.

[@mypodlife]

Never seen something so ridiculously BEAUTIFUL in all my life… this is absolutely insane I LOVE IT 😻

[@cchawk6280]

I think Ben Verene is one of the dancers. Imagine the hours of practice to get that precision. The choreography for Back on 74 is very similar style. Enjoyed 👍

[@mhm8922]

That is Ben! So cool!!

[@akaLaBrujaRoja]

Ben was Fosse’s male muse.

[@banterj]

Oh you are talking about the chereography…you are not even addressing the videography yet,mind you this is not digital,that would have taken days of them doing this over and over again,if not weeks of those performers wearing the exact same hair,makeup and wardrobe …but this was back in the day when people actually worked hard.

[@karinamiddlebrooks2167]

I love back on 74 because of that.

[@edgarmichael3276]

Yes that's him.

[@fallenmilk7929]

알고리즘에 뜰때 마다 보고 있는데 정말 매번 눈을 뗄 수가 없어요 😮❤

[@Rangi_WildDog]

They’re like moving Picasso pieces. I’m not overstating this, the way they move and pose literally remind me of Picasso paintings.

[@beck1365]

I love this so much and I do not know why.

[@aztekspirit]

Because it's brilliant!

[@cheetahslims7849]

It’s so unlike modern choreography. It’s very cool and strange!

[@kevinlucas8437]

What a freaking genius !!! 😮 Some of those dance routines were so difficult to do. Still see his influence in so many things today !!!

[@Shyknit]

You just know someone's grandma was freaking out about all the hip movements like, "we didn't do this in the 1910s" 💀

[@warriorwinter2233]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 sick of you already, the accuracy 😂😂😂😂🎯🎯🎯🥂🤣🤣🤣❤️

[@paulabarr4239]

And now that lead dancer is someone’s grandma. 🤗

[@debrac1688]

Actually, grandparents did

[@debrac1688]

I think he got the idea for this choreography after getting his fill of blase, jaded beautiful people nightclubs

[@jasminecollins897]

Prooobably more upset about the mini dresses, but yup. And her generation scandalized their own grandparents just as much. And so on.

[@eric-tm]

One of the greatest choreography pieces of all time🎉❤❤❤

[@vanessa_the_mindset_maven]

GROOVY!!!!! I miss choreography.

[@christinamacgregor667]

Kirsten Wiig Liza Minnelli turns on a lamp got me looking at this. Love this .

[@Risingofthephoenix]

THIS IS ART!

[@뭄무-q2n]

다시 보려고 5번째 들어옴 너무 매력적이에요

[@lede1810]

This choreography is incredible

[@StLProgressive]

That was incredible. Every single movement was precise. I didn’t know rolling your wrists could look so elegant. 😂❤

[@Dr.Chi_]

Ahhhh!!! So that’s where this style of movement came from!! ❤❤❤ Thanks for the education

[@momokoblue8032]

It all Bob Fosse

[@isabelgaynor2589]

55 years later and I still adore this Fosse choreography, staging and costuming but watching myself trying to copy them in a mirror at this age is frightful.

[@harbingersev-oh-wohne]

The principal dancer OWWW MAMA she ate!!!

[@subzero780]

The ministry of silly walks approved this! Wednesday also!

[@nawnopenah]

This just made me understand 5 movie references all at once

[@Deniseeee84]

Name them in please

[@Chibbykins]

​@@Deniseeee84 I can do one, which is Bring It On when they're rehearsing their cheer routine

[@ExidusElectric]

I'm thinking Wednesday's dance scene was pretty heavily influenced by this

[@carolineriedelsperger944]

@@Deniseeee84 I think there's also a bit of Christina Aguilera when she auditions for Cher/ Tess in Burlesque...?

[@shaunasugar]

I have rewatched this several times. I’m absolutely mesmerized by it.

[@zk4761]

Back to 1974 made me want to see what Fosse's choreo is all about. I can see the connection, very cool.

[@lifelikelisa]

She’s All That, Bring It On, Wednesday, Single Ladies. Bob Fosse, still relevant.

[@franciscolopezchavez]

Watch the "Get me bodied" music video by Beyonce ad you'll see how she got "a lot of inspiration" on this masterpiece

[@aliyah8926]

Yeeesssss bring it on

[@MsJordanElaine]

Me realizing that the Beyoncé “Get Me Bodied” music video was absolutely a reference to this specific scene.

[@tequiness061]

Great Beyoncé video!

[@sustainableedtech]

Yes. also Beyonce's All the Single Ladies. Moves from 'Something better than this' in same film. Bob Fosse still feels so presente.g. in 'Back on 74' dance routine. All the better for everyone...

[@joshuacontreras]

I’m having a similar realization but with Emma Bunton (aka Baby Spice)’s music video for “Maybe,” it’s so good, check it out and you’ll see the striking similarities in origin :) @msjordanelaine

[@eleganceevolved8328]

Yeeees!!! I definitely noticed that too!!! ‘

[@maxoreilly2698]

Beyoncé has lifted heavily from fosse and others

[@maryeheinly8256]

I absolutely love this ! Could watch this for hours !!

[@chantalhughes4939]

The guys walking gets me😂😂😂😂

[@pethomas]

Fosse the auteur at work here. This scene serves literally no purpose in the movie - doesn't move the story forward, doesn't include any of the main characters. Fosse was just like, "Yes, I'm gonna have a 6-minute scene to showcase music, choreo, and my dancers - because I want it there." Highly unlikely any director today could get that kind of freedom.

[@kumaranvij]

I think you mean, "this scene doesn't develop the plot," not "it serves literally no purpose in the movie." There are lots of great scenes like these in great movies that are like little "story within a story" moments. Especially in musicals - and of course also in novels. They actually do serve to add to the themes of the movies, it's just harder to pinpoint how.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Also highly unlikely is that any film director would Also be a talented and visionary choreographer....

[@john-lenin]

It's emblematic of her being in a completely new social element that seems totally bizarre to her (as the shots of the other patrons that introduce this also show).

[@jospenner9503]

It's an old fashioned dance break that are taken from stage musicals.

[@stephenolan5539]

It shows the contrast of the main character's life of being a dance hall girl.

[@Thobela-h3x]

I love that 'Get me bodied' did justice in it's hommage!

[@joeson7700]

FOSSE , Force to Reckon in great Choreography

[@JoseSerranoChicco]

It's impressive. The professional dancer never stops dancing. In that choreography there are people who look quite old but continue dancing like young people.

[@philipdawes2661]

Absolutely stunning. Seriously well done to the choreographer and 'the team' performing it. I wonder how much rehearsal and 'takes' there were for getting to the finished 'product'.

[@MrKlemusic]

Bob Fosse was the man.

[@lionofjudah3457]

Shirley McClaine does an amazing job of this dance in the movie❤

[@Aqualyra]

That's not Shirley dancing in this scene. She's sitting in the audience watching.

[@marcelokahwage6098]

Bob Fosse = Genius.

[@robertwilkins8357]

I belonged to the Arlington Va. Players and we did Sweet Charity and Bye Bye Birdie. I was in the chorus and i thought i would go on but know. The director wanted me to sing cry at Wedding but i didn't have the nerve. My voice back then in the 70s was real high and i found out kater when i had voice teacher in California in Atwater her name was Hazel Bentz wounderful lady.she said my voice was the key of f. Now I'm 83 its gone. Mrs. Benz want me to sing in the church on base O Holy Night and chickened out. I did have the power to do it but no confidence i was 20 then in the Air Force at Castle AFB. The thing is I think about often what could have been. My dear Mom sang often when I was young. The show we did was a great success to a sold out theater. Is a great memory.

[@lynndalton733]

Thank you for your story. It’s not gone you will always have the memories. Like you I know I could’ve gone much further & certain things always seem to get in the way. Bless you ❤

[@richardtodd6559]

I’ve watched this a few times…it’s cool 60’s stuff that reminds me of inspector cluseo…makes me smile

[@LisaSchnettler]

I've seen 3 Fosse revivals on Broadway over the years: Chicago (of course), Pippin, Fosse, Dancin'. Chicago was enjoyable. But the rest, particularly Fosse and Dancin' which were showcasing his style, etc. just missed the mark. The fluidity, the quirkiness, just got lost in translation. Thank goodness he committed so many of his works to film so we can see the original done by him with his picks.

[@annemarie8483]

This lived rent free in my head, today.

[@sailormoonworld]

Okay, those kids in my high school were totally wrong! I knew how to dance after all 😂I was just imitating this routine.

[@momokoblue8032]

It also brilliantly incorporates popular dance fads of the era into the choreo like The Jerk, The Monkey and The Swim.

[@terribellettini450]

The musicality is brilliant, the moves are simple but yet so powerful and precise!!! Fantastic!

[@sj-el4lu]

The cinematography is fucking incredible too

[@anix2457]

You can see Wednesday Adam’s dance was inspired by this routine. It’s brilliant.

[@Lizwindsor]

Or Beyoncé blatantly ripping it off

[@cookinma]

Came here for this comment

[@RaquelPereira-fj4kt]

same ​@@cookinma

[@ameliaalastairmoon4145]

Yes, absolutely. It's from this routine and also I feel quite heavily from the Addams Broadway musical. A few moves are step-by-step from the Ouverture.

[@pH7screwtube]

@@Lizwindsor I would never watch anything having to do with her. So I didnt know she was ripping off old white folks work.

[@go3119]

3:13 for Bring It On!!! Awesome

[@iheartlofi]

Genius!

[@chp550]

I’ve loved this number since I was the kid and never get tired of it. The dancing is on point and fosse created something so spectacular

[@helenmachelen4200]

They really radiate happyness

[@cathytice6370]

I've always thought of Fosse's work like a simple but amazing dish: the few ingredients are obvious, but admixed perfectly, with no extra anything, just yum.

[@KayDejaVu]

I love how they had cigars. Very unique choreography.

[@molderscr]

Bob Fosse simply brilliant and visionary

[@william_at]

This is a Masterpiece that could be candidate for UNESCO'S World Heritage

[@RuthM.-to3ll]

That was the inspiration for "Get me bodied" I'm in awe 😍

[@jennamarie2481]

I remember watching the Beyonce Get Me Bodied music video with my Aunt and then she introduced me to the inspiration, Sweet Charity. I thank the good Lord for that fateful interaction

[@brianegendorf2023]

Its amazing how it kind of pokes fun at dancing, while at the same time, saying..but this is the coolest dance number you'll ever see! Really next level stuff. It really makes you see "All That Jazz" in a different light, too.

[@Spoo76]

I will never understand how dancers memorize all the moves, stay in sync with each other, and everything else involved with these complex routines

[@ImmaFlamingo]

Me too. My daughter does dance (recreationally not competitively) and she is so good at remembering everything. I can barely do a TikTok video with her bc I can’t remember 3 steps. lol

[@Thunderbird-cs2cz]

The frug! Rich man's frug I was in this play in high school.

[@petersantospago1966]

Fosse... The Dr. Seuss of dancing😂

[@LeslieNicole]

Absolutely love this! Brilliant. The male smokers in the beginning were a hoot.

[@jakerubin]

It's always been stunning

[@rightmadmod9416]

And to think AI would never come up with this in 1 trillion years. Stunning and cheeky AF. ❤

[@abigailn3055]

I want whatever he was on when he choreographed this complexly brilliant piece of art.

[@peterjanosik3601]

I watch this every time I see it, I do not understand the story behind it, but I know there is a story, there is something in this that forces me to watch it again and again...

[@peequod]

Mancini’s music is boss 🤌

[@schwarzernerz]

Splendid. Great professionals. Choreography perfect like a Swiss watch. Impossible to repeat today with the approximation of today's standards.

[@missh3200]

Fosse magic. 🌟 *bravo.

[@niknikki86]

I don’t know why I was recommended this video, but I’m so glad I was!

[@carag2567]

This is one of my all time favorite dance scenes on film. The choreography is so innovative and just plain weird it's spot on Fosse even to an uninitiated eye, the dancers are so performative and energetic it's like they all brought their A game to the set, the shots are set up perfectly so that all the key elements of the dance are captured exactly when and how they should be seen, and the energy is just so frenetic and contagious it makes you want to get up and dance along with them! I absolutely love this piece! ❤

[@johntechwriter]

It was a career high point for the dancers and they gave their all - without apparent effort of course.

[@feleicia6565]

The choreography and dancers are astounding. ❤

[@ibansesat]

No idea how i found myself here but i am so glad i did!❤

[@dpsulliv]

Six minutes of pure joy.

[@AreWeLearningYet77]

My absolute favorite dance number still to this day. Bob Fosse was a master

[@azavy]

Classic and Genius! 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@keirafae6669]

I feel culture going through me like an IV this is incredible. Fosse sees millions of shapes in the human body

[@firstnamelastname-nk4ut]

They must've been absolutely boiling, I mean, MELTING under those suits (and lights) 😆 Worth it though! Truly Iconic indeed! 🔥🎆