Bob Fosse's Iconic Choreography from Sweet Charity

Bob Fosse's Iconic Choreography from Sweet Charity | TUNE

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Check out this incredible Bob Fosse choreography from Sweet Charity!
What is Sweet Charity (1969) about?
Shirley MacLaine gives one of her greatest performances in this spectacular musical based on Neil Simon’s smash Broadway hit. Director Bob Fosse broke new cinematic ground with this freewheeling, visually stunning story of a lovelorn New York dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, who dreams of old-fashioned romance but gives her heart to one undeserving man after another.
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@emacias1980 2 ай бұрын

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

@rexnemo 2 ай бұрын

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

@zyxw2024 2 ай бұрын

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

@starkhorror1776 2 ай бұрын

Austin Powers nailed this!🥰

@wplants9793 2 ай бұрын

Best comment I’ve heard in a long time

@waterkaren3636 2 ай бұрын

I keep waiting for him to jump out 😀🤣

@casper7319 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@TopHatNat 2 ай бұрын

It's ASMR before ASMR was a thing.

@insertname1857 2 ай бұрын

i mean the step sounds are likely taken out, then added back in by a foley artist to be precise and clean sounding as opposed to squeaking like a basketball court. the "footsteps" may not even be from shoes. could be bricks clacking together. check out what a foley artist is! foley is a really cool and underrepresented part of filmmaking

@ptonpc 2 ай бұрын

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.

@user-bu4xd9vf3o Ай бұрын

Вы не в курсе, что такое степ?

@dr.medieval1131 2 ай бұрын

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

@dozeyrosie645 2 ай бұрын

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

@daanisch Ай бұрын

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

@HeatherValentineMsFoodie Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@cv1909 18 күн бұрын

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.

@nekograce7914 2 ай бұрын

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

@texasgigi3684 2 ай бұрын

Exactly! I totally agree!

@RichardBarnett-hs1qy Ай бұрын

Let's hear it for the dancers!

@Gee-xb7rt 29 күн бұрын

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

@Ciclopea2 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

What you said!!!

@hellyan35867 2 ай бұрын

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 13 күн бұрын

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 13 күн бұрын

Much more mod than hippie but yeah

@WereMike 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@tamagotchiocean 27 күн бұрын

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.

@hamsterdiving7593 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@zoezwar9911 15 күн бұрын

@@janieroberts8895me too😅

@thomasdequincey5811 4 ай бұрын

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

@carolcox302 2 ай бұрын

He was bloody brilliant.

@amialal4510 2 ай бұрын

@@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 2 ай бұрын

You could not have said it better.

@Walkerwitchyworld 2 ай бұрын

Yes, it is all those things rolled into one 😊

@CommieBukkakie 2 ай бұрын

we here in the homosexual world call that "camp"

@MicaFarrierRheayan 2 ай бұрын

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 11 күн бұрын

Suzanne Charney was excellent.

@MLA0686 2 ай бұрын

Omg the male dancers were also phenomenal

@barbaro_24 28 күн бұрын

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!!

@StudentDad-mc3pu Ай бұрын

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

@MsJordanElaine 2 ай бұрын

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

@tequiness061 2 ай бұрын

Great Beyoncé video!

@sustainableedtech 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@maxoreilly2698 2 ай бұрын

Beyoncé has lifted heavily from fosse and others

@marytheresejacksonlutz2533 2 ай бұрын

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

@mst3kpimp 2 ай бұрын

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

@doloresbriseno2567 2 ай бұрын

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

@marytheresejacksonlutz2533 2 ай бұрын

@@doloresbriseno2567 I knew it was Ben Vereen too

@maxoreilly2698 2 ай бұрын

Ben Vereen😍

@aimee-lynndonovan6077 2 ай бұрын

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

@pethomas 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@john-lenin 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@stephenolan5539 Ай бұрын

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

@Shyknit 2 ай бұрын

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

@warriorwinter2233 2 ай бұрын

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

@paulabarr4239 2 ай бұрын

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

@debrac1688 2 ай бұрын

Actually, grandparents did

@debrac1688 2 ай бұрын

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

@jasminecollins897 Ай бұрын

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

@charlesbird781 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-bp2xq5iv4j 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Very close. 1969

@MrRoyobentoni 20 күн бұрын

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

@organiccher64 Ай бұрын

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

@Angyyyyy 19 күн бұрын

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

@TheWorld_2099 Ай бұрын

The intelligence, humor and satire in this choreography is incredible

@sabatheus Ай бұрын

Those fluid arm movements are mesmerizing!

@mamacitaslove 2 ай бұрын

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

@Haley497 2 ай бұрын

Ministery of Silly Walks approved. Brilliant!

@petersantospago1966 2 ай бұрын

Fosse... The Dr. Seuss of dancing😂

@sailormoonworld 2 ай бұрын

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

@lifelikelisa Ай бұрын

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

@franciscolopezchavez 5 күн бұрын

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

@anix2457 4 ай бұрын

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

@Lizwindsor 2 ай бұрын

Or Beyoncé blatantly ripping it off

@cookinma 2 ай бұрын

Came here for this comment

@RaquelPereira-fj4kt 2 ай бұрын

same @@cookinma

@ameliaalastairmoon4145 2 ай бұрын

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.

@ph8632 2 ай бұрын

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

@ankerelite 2 ай бұрын

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

@robertwilkins8357 2 ай бұрын

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.

@lede1810 Ай бұрын

This choreography is incredible

@subzero780 Ай бұрын

The ministry of silly walks approved this! Wednesday also!

@StLProgressive 2 ай бұрын

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

@nawnopenah 23 күн бұрын

This just made me understand 5 movie references all at once

@Deniseeee84 17 күн бұрын

Name them in please

@Chibbykins 17 күн бұрын

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

@ExidusElectric 13 күн бұрын

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

@carolineriedelsperger944 13 күн бұрын

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

@christinamacgregor667 Ай бұрын

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

@ReflexCrimePod 20 күн бұрын

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

@user-qv5ue5zw1s 7 күн бұрын

sister is WHIPPING that pony... amazing

@cchawk6280 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

That is Ben! So cool!!

@akaLaBrujaRoja 2 ай бұрын

Ben was Fosse’s male muse.

@banterj 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

I love back on 74 because of that.

@momokoblue8032 Ай бұрын

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

@helenmachelen4200 13 күн бұрын

They really radiate happyness

@marcelokahwage6098 Ай бұрын

Bob Fosse = Genius.

@Risingofthephoenix 2 ай бұрын

THIS IS ART!

@vanessa_the_mindset_maven 4 ай бұрын

GROOVY!!!!! I miss choreography.

@naomi8292 Ай бұрын

When people are like "men were MANLY men in the oldy days" I'm like maaaaaaate I hate to break it to you

@KayDejaVu 2 ай бұрын

I love how they had cigars. Very unique choreography.

@carag2567 2 ай бұрын

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! ❤

@zk4761 3 ай бұрын

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

@joeson7700 2 ай бұрын

FOSSE , Force to Reckon in great Choreography

@joannedempsey1568 2 ай бұрын

I know this film flopped but only bcoz of the length of the scenes,I think it was just slightly before it's time but it's aged like a fine wine 🍷 ❤

@rachelw1076 2 ай бұрын

Imagine how many wrists had to be iced throughout this process 😄

@LisaSchnettler 4 ай бұрын

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.

@cathytice6370 2 ай бұрын

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.

@user-hj1mq3ol9v 2 ай бұрын

다시 보려고 5번째 들어옴 너무 매력적이에요

@kenjones102 2 ай бұрын

Robin Williams loved to poke fun at Bob Fosse. Now I see why.

@go3119 2 ай бұрын

3:13 for Bring It On!!! Awesome

@sj-el4lu Ай бұрын

The cinematography is fucking incredible too

@genigeni9335 Ай бұрын

The craziest yet the most dynamic choreography ever seen! Stellar!

@peequod 2 ай бұрын

Mancini’s music is boss 🤌

@ibansesat Ай бұрын

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

@Dr.Chi_ 2 ай бұрын

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

@momokoblue8032 Ай бұрын

It all Bob Fosse

@LeslieNicole Ай бұрын

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

@lionofjudah3457 Ай бұрын

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

@Aqualyra 21 күн бұрын

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

@harbingersev-oh-wohne 2 ай бұрын

The principal dancer OWWW MAMA she ate!!!

@Camacho4Prez2024 Ай бұрын

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

@abigailn3055 Ай бұрын

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

@rheatollina 19 күн бұрын

I've never seen anything like this. The cigarette-smoke routine in the first 30 seconds is incredible...

@jennamarie2481 Ай бұрын

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

@maryeheinly8256 2 ай бұрын

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

@peterjanosik3601 13 күн бұрын

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...

@beck1365 2 ай бұрын

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

@aztekspirit 2 ай бұрын

Because it's brilliant!

@cheetahslims7849 2 ай бұрын

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

@IllerArian 24 күн бұрын

This choreo was in Bring it on, when Torrence is finding inspiration.

@quentinduplooy9868 13 күн бұрын

Such a fabulousness! Avantgarde til now...

@rocksaltcomando 13 күн бұрын

This makes me a lot more confident in my wacky dance moves lol I’m just gonna rock them 😂

@GSXSF-250 14 күн бұрын

Love the ‘60s ❤

@philipdawes2661 2 ай бұрын

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'.

@OggyBleacher Ай бұрын

Edith Head designed the costumes.

@suhseal 17 күн бұрын

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

@feleicia6565 2 ай бұрын

The choreography and dancers are astounding. ❤

@terribellettini450 2 ай бұрын

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

@firstnamelastname-nk4ut 2 ай бұрын

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

@missh3200 2 ай бұрын

Fosse magic. 🌟 *bravo.

@jakerubin 2 ай бұрын

It's always been stunning

@world3957 Ай бұрын

Well done to the children and the choreographer, excellent dancing

@Clint_Leastwood 17 күн бұрын

I once painted a house with this playing in the background for hours, over and over :)

@rightmadmod9416 Ай бұрын

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

@TheSimmpleTruth Ай бұрын

Wow, this is perfectly 60-70’s. It reminds me of the old Batman series when I was a child. That’s exactly how they danced, all the musicals of the era. My mother dressed me with mini skirts and mini dresses and white knee-high boots that looked like plastic. I wouldn’t know the material, but they were shiny. We used to have “plastic” furniture in the living room. I remember the plastic transparent air-filled arm chair. I was afraid it would burst if someone poked it with a pen.