Dance in Film · 1979
All That Jazz (1979)
Bob Fosse's searing, semi-autobiographical musical about a self-destructive Broadway director-choreographer — the sharpest film ever made about the cost of the dancing life.
All That Jazz is a 1979 dance musical centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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The dance sequences in All That Jazz
5 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Bye Bye Life finale
Fosse StyleDanced by Roy Scheider; Ben Vereen · Choreography Bob Fosse
Scheider and Vereen driving the farewell toward Angelique before the cut to Joe’s body bag.
Joe and O’Connor transform an impending death into a blindingly theatrical farewell, with showmanship fighting the finality of the hospital. The number’s audience of people from Joe’s life makes applause and judgment occupy the same space.
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Everything Old Is New Again
Fosse StyleDanced by Ann Reinking; Erzsebet Foldi · Choreography Bob Fosse
Reinking and Foldi dancing around the apartment as a homemade gift for Joe.
Kate and Michelle answer Joe’s crisis with an intimate routine they have made for him, using crisp accents and playful synchronization instead of stage-scale spectacle. The duet briefly converts Fosse’s vocabulary into affection rather than control.
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On Broadway audition
Fosse StyleDanced by NY/LA audition ensemble · Choreography Bob Fosse
The narrowing field of sweating dancers answering the final cut with exhausted precision.
Fosse turns a mass employment audition into choreography about selection pressure: repeated combinations reveal individuality while the edit keeps the room’s collective pulse. The dancers’ fatigue and focus make technique feel inseparable from survival.
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Post-operative death fantasies
Fosse StyleDanced by Erzsebet Foldi; Ann Reinking; Leland Palmer · Choreography Bob Fosse
The women in Joe’s life appearing as performers inside his recovery hallucination.
Three imagined numbers let Michelle, Kate and Audrey sing and dance the consequences of Joe’s self-destruction back to him. The hospital becomes a rehearsal room for mortality, turning confession into show-business form.
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Take Off With Us / Air-otica rehearsal
Fosse StyleDanced by NY/LA cast · Choreography Bob Fosse
The ensemble stripping to underwear as the once-safe rehearsal becomes a charged erotic spectacle.
The number pivots from a conventional show tune into isolations, turned-in shapes and overtly sexual partnering, exposing Gideon’s compulsion to keep revising until risk replaces polish. Its escalating theatricality makes the producers’ discomfort part of the choreography’s effect.
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