Director-choreographer Bob Fosse forever changed the way audiences around the world viewed dance on the stage and in the film industry in the late twentieth century. Visionary, intense, and unbelievably driven, Fosse was an artist whose work was always provocative, entertaining, and quite unlike anything ever before seen. His dances were sexual, physically demanding of even the most highly trained dancers, full of joyous humor as well as bleak cynicism—works that addressed the full range of human emotions. Through his films he revolutionized the presentation of dance on screen and paved the way for a whole generation of film and video directors, showing dance through the camera lens as no one had done before, foreshad-owing the rise of the MTV-era of music video dance.

Bob Fosse

Robert Louis Fosse was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 23, 1927. Bob was the youngest of six children...