So it was a strange mixture … It’s like the most urban choreography, mixed with Fosse – very modern and very vintage.” had a plain background and it was shot on the crane it was 360 degrees, they could move around.Īnd I said, ‘This is genius.’ We kept a lot of the Fosse choreography and added the down-south thing – it’s called J-Setting, where one person does something and the next person follows.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the pop superstar was quoted telling, “I saw a video on YouTube. The old video is actually from The Ed Sullivan Show, 1969 as the three ladies are seen performing a dance routine entitled, ‘Mexican Breakfast’ – choreographed by Bob Fusse and also featuring his wife Gwen Verdon.Beyoncé had already issued a clarity on the similarities before, but most people still don’t seem to know about it. The latest viral news doing the rounds in social media is in reference to Beyoncé’s award winning video for her 2008-released dance-anthem, ‘Single Ladies’.Īs an old video from the 1960’s reemerges online, showing uncanny resemblence of the dance routine with Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ music video, sparked the whole debate about Beyoncé having stolen the choreography from the same.

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