Fosse Book Review

He was greatly influenced by Jack Cole and Jerome Robbins.

• He often combined different styles, as he did in the ballet sequence for New Girl in Town. The ballet included jazz, the cancan, a gypsy dance, a march, and an old-fashioned English music hall number.

• Fosse was a major innovator who, in part, was responsible for developing and creating modern theatre dance.

• Fosse introduced his trademark choreographic style by employing the vaudeville styles such as double takes, slights of hand and pratfalls which were spiced up with sexually aggressive styles.