Community theater dancers painstakingly re-create his choreography for Pippin , Chicago and The Pajama Game . Cabaret , Sweet Charity and All That Jazz show up on the movie channels every month. Even Liza Minnelli's TV special, Liza With a Z , gets the occasional rerun. Rice acknowledges rolling her shoulders when she was a teenager, although it was to a song by Luther Vandross, and she had no idea she was channeling Fosse. If you've ever been to the movies, or the theater, or watched TV, Fosse is a part of you - but much more so if you're a dancer.
Rice is a dancer.
Especially when she's doing I Gotcha, a sexy '70s routine from Liza With a Z . He ventures away from the rules and regulations of dance - the first position, the second position and all that. He uses the dancer's body in a way that seems organic. You don't have that ballet lock. Amazingly, Fosse's work remains cool, hip even.