''IT'S showtime, folks.'' That's the mantra of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), the boozing, chain-smoking, pill-popping, womanizing, workaholic filmmaker-choreographer hero of the 1979 drama ''All That Jazz,'' a hopped-up American variant of Federico Fellini's navel-gazing fantasia ''8 1/2'' (1963). Those three words -- recited by Gideon into the...

The shimmering hands in the aggressively saucy new revival of ''Pippin'' at the Mark Taper Forum here are not, as you might assume, a tribute to Bob Fosse, who directed and choreographed the original Broadway production in 1972. Those wriggling digits are saying something too. The classic splayed-finger movement that has become a Fosse cliché is...

According to Chita Rivera, Bob Fosse once fired a dancer because she couldn't control the movements of her eyes; the man was nothing if not a minimalist. What, you wonder, would he have thought of ''Ritmo y Ruido,'' a 1997 work by Ann Reinking, a woman steeped in Fosse's style? You can see his influence in the dance, which was performed by Ballet...
Bob Fosse (23. juni 1927 – 23. september 1987) var amerikansk filminstruktør og koreograf. Han opnåede verdensberømmelse, især med filmen Cabaret fra 1972, der havde Liza Minnelli i hovedrollen.