Buddy Epsen
I looked at Buddy Epsen's dance and had to wonder whether he was mocking someone from the Ozarks. And since watching the likes of Tommy Tune, or The Berry Brothers, or The Nicholas Brothers, or Bob Fosse, or Gene Kelly etc. and in the end we have to marvel at Fred Astaire's triumph as a dancer. His triumph was to master complexity through rigorous and disciplined rehearsal but also tolerance to being a Plane Jane, letting the dance performance outshine the (Plane Jane) persona that is Fred Astaire.
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