John LeGear – Bob Fosse: OF Wow Choreography

May 1, 2026 | 1:00 pm 2001 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin, IL 60102

Dancer-choreographer Bob Fosse forever changed the way audiences around the world viewed dance on the stage and in the film industry from the 1950s to the 1980s. Born in 1927 and raised on the north side of Chicago, Fosse was the youngest of six children and learned early on that he’d need to do special things to garner any attention from his family. Visionary, intense, and passionately driven, Fosse was an artist whose work was always provocative, entertaining, and quite unlike anything ever before seen. His dances were physically demanding of even the most highly trained dancers, full of joyous humor and occasionally conspicuous cynicism — works that addressed the full range of human emotions. Through his films he revolutionized the presentation of dance on screen and paved the way for a whole generation of film and video directors that followed.