Ann Reinking

Ann H. Reinking ( born November 10, 1949 in Seattle ) is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.

Life and work

Ann Reinking came in 1949 as the daughter of Walton F. Reinking and Frances Holmes Reinking, nee Harrison, in Seattle to the world. She was one of seven children. In the sixth class the example of a classmate had inspired her interest in dancing and began taking ballet lessons. With a grant from the Ford Foundation, she was able to study as a teenager on three consecutive summers at the San Francisco Ballet. She also received lessons with Robert Joffrey, co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. After graduating from high school Reinking went to New York City, where she continued the classical training at the American Ballet Theatre School. She was referring about the YWCA an apartment in Manhattan and was a member of the ballet company at Radio City Music Hall. Her Broadway debut in 1969 as Lulu, a girl of the Kit Kat Club in the musical Cabaret. Then she appeared as part of the ensemble of Coco and Wild and Wonderful. In 1972, she got a small role in the musical Pippin, whose choreography Bob Fosse directed. Fosse was to their professional promoters and lovers. They stayed for six years dating.

Her first major role was played by Reinking in 1974 in the musical Over Here! , For which she won several awards. It was followed by other successful performances, partly directed by Fosse, as in the musicals Chicago and Dancin. In 1979, she starred in his autobiographical film All That Jazz the character Kate Jagger, which is one of the mistresses of the main character Joe Gideon, which in turn stands for Fosse. Thus, their professional and personal relationship is reflected in this film. In 1982, she appeared in the American movie musical Annie.

At the Academy Awards in 1985 Reinking was the nominated song Against All Odds ( Take a Look at Me Now) before full playback. The actual artist Phil Collins was - had not been invited to and watching the event with a horrified expression in the auditorium - probably because even a lack of awareness. These recordings are considered one of the most critical moments in the history of the Academy Awards. Phil Collins announced his song several years later with the words: " I'm sorry Miss Ann Reinking could not be here tonight; I guess I just have to sing my own song. "

In 1986, Reinking the title role in Fosse's musical Sweet Charity. Then they began to increasingly turn to the choreography. For their choregrafische work in the revival of Chicago in 1996 for the first time she was able to win a Tony Award. Two years later, she directed the musical Fosse, which was dedicated to her now deceased mentor.

Reinking worked alongside her Broadway career as a dance teacher. She lived from 1990 to 1994 in Tampa, Florida, where he founded the Broadway Theatre Project, in which talented young students meet with established artists and training in dance, acting and singing obtained. After five years, the successful project of the local high school on the campus of the University of South Florida and achieved registration numbers of around 150 participants joined. Later Reinking, who shuttled between New York and Tampa now ended, the collaboration on this project, but are up to the present master classes in the United States.

Reinking is married to sports journalist Peter Talbert since 1994. They live with pure Kings son from his third marriage in Phoenix. Clean Kings previous husbands were singers Larry Small ( 1970), investment banker Herbert A. Allen ( 1982-1989 ) and the father of her son, James Stuart ( 1989-1991).

2008/2009 Reinking produced two documentaries about children with disabilities. Two worlds, one planet treated the subject autism and In My Hands shows how Reinking teenagers are dancing lessons, suffering as well as her son on the Marfan syndrome.

Awards

Theater performances (selection)

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Actress

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  • 2008: Two worlds, one planet
  • 2009: In My Hands: A Story of Marfan Syndrome
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