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Fosse

Sam Wasson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 2013

Why this source matters

The fullest biography of Fosse, drawing on hundreds of interviews with his dancers, and the best source on how the Fosse vocabulary (turned-in knees, hip rolls, isolations, the bowler) was assembled from vaudeville and burlesque.

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