Truly timless and absolutely beautiful! In 1963, I was 2 years old. It is now 2024, and I am 62 years old. It is still extraordinary!!

@wildfireintexas

5 ай бұрын

Right there with you girlfriend.

Thank goodness for KZread so I can see gems like this for the first time....just fabulous.

@amyralls6218

6 ай бұрын

I agree 100%!!

Gwen Verdon was among the best and too often not mentioned. Plus she endured marriage to Bob Fosse. One of my favorite MASH episodes is the one with her.. Sherm.

@bluemountainmornings2544

6 ай бұрын

I came here to say that!

@kmm2442

4 ай бұрын

Endured? Was he hard to live with?

@sassymess7111

4 ай бұрын

Never seen the MASH episode but for some reason I was never a big fan. She was and will always be amazing. I LOVED her on the episode of FAME dancing with Debbie Allen!

@sassymess7111

4 ай бұрын

​@@kmm2442 Yes. Professionally he was an absolute perfectionist. Privately he was a womanizer. Anne Reinking ( another talented dancer IMO) was his longtime mistress and there were others besides her. Basically watch ALL THAT JAZZ. Roy Scheider's character is based off of Bob Fosse down to the ginger haired wife who was a former dancer and Anne Reinking herself starring as the mistress.

@kmm2442

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Everything I wanted to know.

Lord, I remember this! My baby brother was just born and I was 5 years old! Holy Cow!

@lynn69jackson

Ай бұрын

My big brother would have been around 2 months old when this was made.

Not bad for a woman who had ricketts as a tiny child & spent her early years in calipers. ❤️ Dance classes were/are so important. 💙

@anniejuan1817

6 ай бұрын

I agree. I think swimming lessons are a top priority, because that can save a child's life. But dance classes are a close second. Dance is a life skill!

@songindarkness

5 ай бұрын

That’s amazing!

How could anyone not like Danny Kaye. Look at that face!

I loved Danny Kaye and his TV show when I was a kid. Such wholesome entertainment. I miss it.

The artistry of Gwen Verdon is awe-inspiring.

That was quite LOVELY Gwen. I'm sure your daughter appreciated it when she got older.

This is beautiful -- the choreography, the arrangement, the staging. Truly the Golden Age of television. I wish Netflix, with its huge budget, could produce an hour long variety special like this.

Wish they would still produce shows like this.

Nicole Fosse grew up to be an actress and a dancer.

I can hear my mother singing these nursery rhymes to me. Mom loved this type of dance, music and choreography. Miss Verdon is marvelous

I hope Nicole has been able to share this with her children. What a family treasure.

So talented and charming. When I was young in the ‘60’s I saw her in Sweet Charity in NYC.

@Jettypilelegs

6 ай бұрын

So jealous!

@mottawa1

6 ай бұрын

So playful and talented.

@maryrosekent8223

4 ай бұрын

YOWZA!!!

@Texaslawhorn

4 ай бұрын

That must have been amazing!

She's in such good form, it's hard to believe that she'd just popped out a baby six months earlier.

@Elizabeth-rq1vi

3 жыл бұрын

She’s a dancer who didn’t stop dancing or moving. She probably only gained a little over the baby, amniotic fluid & placenta.

@Bubblesrv81

7 ай бұрын

How is it hard to believe. The lady was basically walking and moving her hands.

@irmar

5 ай бұрын

@@Bubblesrv81 There was running and jumping too. And it needed rehearsals, doing the same routine many times, which needs stamina.

She did this 6 months post-birth. That's amazing by any standards, you know.

Her ballet training really shows!

And now little Nicole is nearly sixty. Wow.

She was beyond talented and a wonderful person 💕

@Bubblesrv81

7 ай бұрын

What?

Nobody moves like Verdon💙

@libertygiveme1987

3 жыл бұрын

Cynthia, with the exception of Donald O'Conner, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, etc,etc....

@keishamorris5571

3 жыл бұрын

@@libertygiveme1987 How about the Nicolas Brothers???

@JudgeJulieLit

3 жыл бұрын

None of the male dancers here commented on had Gwen's sylphine feminine body, early ballet training, nor exquisite grace. Every dancer is a unique terpsichorean instrument.

How Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰 What a Blessed little girl to whom was going to receive this video.

I came here after Fosse/Verdon. Thanks for posting. Clever movement canon during "3 Blind Mice."

I really enjoyed this beautiful video! Nighty night everybody! 🥱😴

She did that barefoot in tights on a glossy surface. I used to fence, in shoes, on a floor like that, a basketball court. It took years not to slip around. She’s way more amazing than you think.

@googlyeyedcat

3 жыл бұрын

She has shoes on you can't tell very much because they match her tights. They kind of look like what male ballet dancers would have on.

@marygoodson4920

3 жыл бұрын

She has ballet slippers on.

@nicolajaynehodson9223

3 жыл бұрын

looks like she's got black canvas ballet flats on

@elizabethclaiborne6461

6 ай бұрын

@@googlyeyedcatAm familiar. Effectively barefoot. No traction.

Imagine dancers this great with a great choreographer on staff week after week to creat dances this good.... every week.

@pam0626

13 күн бұрын

It’s amazing, isn’t it? I love watching these variety shows on YT.

What a marvelous talent she was. I hope she knew how much we will loved her and appreciated her. RIP, Gwen.

Saw her in Sweet.Charity. fantastic

Beautiful choreography ! Thanks for posting.

I love her work. It's no wonder Bob Fosse worked with her.

What a lovely gift to Nicole.

Imagine dancing like that six months after giving birth!

@RedRooster123

3 жыл бұрын

She was already a dancer, it wasn't hard. Runners keep running when pregnant and get back quickly as well.

@originalredneckgirl

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't do heart surgery or anything.. she just had a baby.. women are amazing like that ,

@abigailwrigley6462

3 жыл бұрын

@@originalredneckgirl the last Relaxin would be leaving her body after six months so this dance should be done with extreme care. For an elite athlete this is acceptable, for an average, healthy, fit woman, not yet. There is a huge amount of background knowledge and experience necessary to make this possible, never mind safe. These days hernias, piles, prolapses of more than just discs are much less common, because we know what all the processes are.

@RedRooster123

3 жыл бұрын

@@originalredneckgirl right?!

@carolinemodenbach

3 жыл бұрын

6 months is a very long time to heal after birth. Most women jump right back into their normal duties in very little time.

Quite amazing to be the daughter of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse.

gorgeous dancing!- the choreography feels fresh. Another one not to miss is ' What Lola wants '. funniest thing! genius. Thanks for this great post.

Beautiful, graceful, enchanting!

Geesh…six months postpartum and she looks like that! Amazing dancer.

Thank you so much for the chance to see more artistry from this marvelous woman. They really had some great stuff on TV back then. (There's some good stuff now too, but different.)

A mothers love expressed in the best way she knew how.

What a sweet gift to children everywhere.

Nicole was in the movie A Chorus Line. Bob Fosse is her dad 🥹 What a legendary family!

Loved Gwen Verdon!

I love Danny Kaye so much.

Wonderful !

Love her. A great talent

I adore Gwen Verdon

What a talent this woman!

Dancing and music was magical.

Oh my God!!! That was phenomenal. Damn. And just precious af.

Magic.

Six months after having a baby, wow!

That was really wonderful!!!!!

Aw this is sweet!

This is sweet.

So classy!

Very ethereal Perfect

no wonder my mom had a crush on her. such grace and elegance

the origin of twerking cos she woke up like this 🤣🤣🤣

SMOOTH! 🤗

Classic!

Спасибо!! Какая пластика...!!

This is so precious!!!!! ❤❤❤

Good choreography

In its youth TV knew it could never compete with the cast-of-thousands spectacle, fancy settings and costumes of Broadway or Hollywood, and why try on small b&w screens? Economics and aesthetics both conduced to the unadorned chiaroscuro of studio floors such as this. It was the right environment in which to mainstream modern dance as interpreted by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, as well as the world-music fusions of Jack Cole. Back to basics: focus on the figures, not their trappings. The big Middle American audience ate up the likes of Fonteyn and Nureyev on Sullivan. Why not introduce them to post-classical movement? And so, courtesy of Fosse and Verdon, another phase in the eternal melding of the avant garde and sssshowtime! was achieved, to their mutual benefit. Some folks wanted high and low culture to keep their distance, and today many would like the artistic inheritances of different races to dwell under separate bell jars. But naughty old traditions keep escaping and mating. Promiscuity breeds novelty.

Love this... just want to mention Danny Kaye's family was from Ukraine. I don't know where Gwen's family is from but she was so talented also!

Danny Kaye pronounces Gwen’s daughter, Nicole(‘s), name as “Neecole.” I’ve never heard anyone pronounce the name Nicole that way.

SHOW OFF!!! YEAH!!! YOU GO MAMA!

Muito bom!

that is art

Wow!!

Not bad for a kid that had rickets.

@cherylmcnutt9905

3 жыл бұрын

Really?

@MarkMastrocinque

3 жыл бұрын

@@cherylmcnutt9905 Yes. As a child Gwen Verdon suffered from rickets.

@cherylmcnutt9905

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkMastrocinque Oh! Poor thing! She certainly overcame that adversity!

Fosse had to have choregraphed this ; it has signature moves .. 👌

@cherylmcnutt9905

3 жыл бұрын

She collaborated with the shows choreographer. She could have put those moves in.

@elizabethmurphy9384

2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t Tony Charmoli work as Assistant to Fosse?

@kellyalves756

5 ай бұрын

@@elizabethmurphy9384Gwen was a talented choreographer in her own right- and handed the credit off to Fosse a lot of the time. I guarantee you nobody’s shortchanging Fosse by crediting the other two.

Fabulos

Wow.

Is her little girl around now and did she ever comment on this performance done especially for her?

The Best x

I’m guessing her daughter has seen by now.. 😁✨

Imagine being a professional dancer.

Сейчас даже как-то смешно на это смотреть))) ещё так талия неестественно утянута...

Gwen had gams!

Nice post

music arranged by Aaron Copland?

Go to 1:13

@brianmcmillan7426

3 жыл бұрын

childhood crush since Damn Yankees

Someone, ANYONE.... please HURRY and tell BEYONCE to WATCH this VIDEO....will TOTALLY go GREAT with her "country" (as real as her blonde hair) "music".....🤥🤥🤥....🤠

soo Gwen just gave birth?!

Bob Fosse choreography?

A different time

11 million dollars??

I always wonder who the miserable, disenchanted people are who don't like this? ...and everything else that is about joy, happiness and love....who are they in their miserable lives of nothingness? Frankly, who cares?

@bobtaylor170

3 жыл бұрын

I have a cousin like that. 66. Humorless. Lifeless. Vicious.

@bobtaylor170

3 жыл бұрын

Mark, we have to keep trying to introduce people to the great things.

@marktombazian6490

3 жыл бұрын

Remember, we all become more or less of who we are. More? then happier, fulfilled, joyous, etc etc...Less? Sadder, angry, unfulfilled, etc etc. We become the way we are by choice. Regardless of what takes place, we choose how we will react, respond, respect, process and conclude and then carry-on. Our life is based on our choices. Choose the life you want. Live the results.

Bizarre .. lol.

01:45

@bbibidee8233

3 жыл бұрын

02:25

@bbibidee8233

3 жыл бұрын

03:26

@bbibidee8233

3 жыл бұрын

05:55

Ya know.. watching these three figures in black against a spare background reminds of Beyonce and All the Single Ladies. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqFlp6iGn7Wsprw.html

Verdon is the perfect Fosse dancer. The dancers with her are very good but not Fosse-trained.

All she does is shake her hips and run in place!

Wait....what? No twerking!?!?

Bending over and looking through the legs at the camera isn't so nice dancewise.

What is wrong with her hips? Her waist is cinched in so weirdly just above giving a square shape to her hips. 3:21 Looks extremely uncomfortable

I am surprised she was able to dance like that, due to the fact she was a smoker.

@laurelbehles7019

6 ай бұрын

Everyone (almost) back then smoked!

He has a huge nose . It looks as if we’re watching a clip from Pinocchio.

@maryshaffer8474

3 жыл бұрын

People even the movie stars used to be normal looking.

@lindacarruthers3423

3 жыл бұрын

@@maryshaffer8474 how true . That’s why I enjoy British films . All the good bad and ugly of them , normal . In fact often I can’t tell the difference between some actors in American films because certain types seen to be preferred by the casting person , so duplicate people appear in the same film . I shouldn’t have mentioned the nose , but it did give me a shock because somehow I didn’t know he had such a prominent one .

@rabidsamfan

3 жыл бұрын

@@lindacarruthers3423 Those old tv cameras were notorious for distorting the image slightly. If you have ever heard someone say that the camera adds ten pounds, that is the camera being talked about.

Gwen Verdon was a woman of talent. However, she was unkind and known for her racism. A dear Latino friend of mine, who was a brilliant dancer, auditioned several times for a Bob Fosse Broadway musical but Gwen turned him down because there was already a Black dancer in the show. My friend wasn't or looked Black. He clearly looked Latino. At that time (1980s) one minority cast member was enough in a majority white cast show. During his last audition Bob Fosse showed up to everyone's surprise and when Gwen told my friend again that there was already a black dancer in the show, Bob intervened and say that my friend was one of the most talented young men that he had ever seen. It turns out, that on my friend's first evening performance, the principal dancer got sick and there was no one to replace him. Gwen asked if anyone would volunteer. But no one volunteered because they hadn't memorized his routine. Hesitantly my friend raised his hand, but Gwen ignored him. The cast started shouting give him a chance. Visibly annoyed; she turned to my friend and said: I hope you are not going to waste my time and embarrass yourself. He took to center stage and performed the routine flawlessly. Besides being an extraordinary talented dancer, he was also gifted with an incredible photographic memory. He had auditioned so many times that he had memorized all the step variations of the show. The whole cast stood up screaming and showering him with applauses. Gwen was forced to move him from the last row to front row, elevating him to principal dancer. But she never acknowledged his presence with a simple hello during the entire season. His was preparing to be the next Raul Júlia. He could dance, act and sing. But he left us too soon. My unforgettable friend was among the enormous number of super talented people that we lost to AIDS.

@googleuser7454

5 ай бұрын

😢 that is terrible. I didn't know that