Bob Fosse developed a choreographic style so distinctive and influential that it’s probably familiar to you even if his name isn’t. If you’ve seen dancers flare their fingers in the flexed position often mockingly called “jazz hands,” then you’ve seen Fosse, especially if those dancers were also sitting into one hip and hiding their eyes beneath a hat.

Fosse didn’t invent hands or hips or hats, of course, but the way he put them together and what he made them suggest (sex, corruption, falsity) became a signature. And that style was imitated, not just on Broadway, where Fosse reigned from the mid-1950s through the mid-80s, but also in music videos and pop concerts into the present. The most talented borrowers include Michael Jackson and Beyoncé, who folded aspects of Fosse’s style into their own as they eclipsed him in fame.