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Deny Fear
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📷 Steve McCurry, Brazil, from On Reading ||| "Our doubt is our passion, & our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." - Henry James

Jan 13, 2022, 7 tweets

Remembering Gwen Verdon on her birthday 🎂
📷 Tony Vaccaro, New York, 1953
"Widely regarded as the best dancer ever to brighten the Broadway stage, Ms. Verdon was also a performer who brought more than physical excitement to her roles."
- Robert Berkvist

Gwen Verdon by Ormond Gigli, 1953
A truly remarkable portrait

Gwen Verdon & Ben Stevenson by Jack Mitchell, 1978

Gwen Verdon with Shirley MacLaine & Bob Fosse during the filming of Sweet Charity
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
MacLaine played Charity in Fosse's film, a part that Verdon had created on Broadway under Fosse's direction.

Gwen Verdon & Bob Fosse on the set of Sweet Charity.
Verdon contributed to the film, without credit, as the assistant choreographer.
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969

Gwen Verdon by Tony Vaccaro, New York, 1953

Gwen Verdon by George Karger, 1955
"You just put on the music, and I start to dance. My body remembers even if my brain doesn't."

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