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Bob Fosse I am Bob Fosse, a famous dancer and choreographer. I took movements and images from burlesque halls and nightclubs, crafted them into a signature movement style, and conceptualized Broadway shows, television specials, and movies that relied on that signature style to razzle-dazzle my audience (“Hall of Fame”). I was a genius at creating entertaining dances filled with hunched shoulders, limp wrists, turned in legs, and thrusting hips (“Hall of Fame”). I often called …

…demanded the most out of life, from myself and from those who worked with me (“Hall of Fame”). I advanced art of stage choreography with my many successful shows, as well as show direction and conceptualization (“Hall of Fame”). I maintained the tradition of the nightclub entertainer on Broadway when this genre had disappeared from clubs, and I created a signature movement style that is known over the world as jazz dance (“Hall of Fame”).