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Article: FOSSE; DEFINING FAMED CHOREOGRAPHER-DIRECTOR NO EASY STEP.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 18, 1998
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Byline: Reed Johnson Daily News Staff Writer
Fill in the blank: Bob Fosse's choreography is known for being extremely -----.
Dark? Erotic? Humorous? Theatrical?
Yes, to all of the above. But what about ``classy?''
``Oh, I'm so glad you said that,'' Gwen Verdon exclaims. ``Most people don't spot that, they just see sex and eroticism and sensuality and bumps and grinds. He had great elegance.''
Indeed, he did - not that Fosse had anything against bumping and grinding, either.
It was his unique way of fusing dissimilar traits - sensuality with sophistication, sardonicism with joy, funkiness with wit - that Verdon and ...