Not long ago I was watching the movie All That Jazz and remembering how amazing it is. All That Jazz, is a movie written, directed, and based on the life of Bob Fosse. Starring Roy Scheider as the Fosse-carbon-copy, Joe Gideon, Jessica Lange as the mysterious maternal-figure, Angelique, and Ann Reinking as Kate Jagger, the adoring girlfriend of the philandering Gideon, this movie is filled with all of drive, decadence, and destruction that always seems to be the story of great genius. This movie is an injection of pure passion, creativity, and excitement. My favorite part is a dance between Gideon’s daughter and Kate Jagger to Peter Allen’s “Everything Old is New Again”. This dance exhibits Fosse’s ability to present movement that looks so simplistic, but bears the depth and complexity of a true artist.His style, much like the man himself, embodied a contradiction. A contradiction I just can’t get enough of. This dance just keeps you fixated and smiling. It is so good! I hope you like it!
‘Til we meet again,
Simmon
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