Choreography

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:56pm

The song from White Christmas, done by Sammy Davis, Jr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD8LG0C5Ug0

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:57pm

Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen, doing it in the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8OR8ehZfU

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:59pm

More fun choreography, but not that song...

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell doing the phenomenally Art Deco "Begin the Beguine," from Broadway Melody of 1940:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWW6QeeVzDc

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:02pm

And Judy Garland--a pleasingly plump Judy Garland!--proving she can dance perfectly well with Gene Kelly in "The Portland Fancy" from Summer Stock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EuMImHN210

Okay. I'm done. Open thread. Post your favorite dance videos.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:11pm

One more: Chita Rivera and the legendary choreographer Jack Cole answer Sid Ceasar's question "What is jazz?" by dancing some Jack Cole choreography to the "Beale Street Blues":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwwcPvoCjU

Before there was Fosse, there was Cole.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:32pm

And Jack Cole did it about a billion times better than one-trick Fosse!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:53pm

Oh, I think he and Tommy Rall do more than one trick in the Fosse-choreographed "Competition Dance" from My Sister Eileen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZkxvHxDi5s

But, come one, JB. You must have at least ONE great piece of choreography in all those Julie Andrews videos, no?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/31/08 at 1:05am

The Nicholas Brothers!

"My Kind of Town"--about Manhattan, instead of Chicago, for some unexplained reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR12DyZdN2E

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:27am

I am so pathetic. I had no idea Sammy Davis Jr could tap! That was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing that.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/31/08 at 9:18am

Early in his career, Sammy was part of the Will Mastin Trio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8LufqHy_Nk