Ann Reinking

Actress

1949-11-10 – 2020-12-12

Ann Reinking was an American actress, dancer, and choreographer known for her work on Broadway and in film. She was a major figure in modern American musical theatre.

Quotes by Ann Reinking

I have a wonderful husband, sportswriter Peter Talbert.
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For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.
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Fosse would say that it's important to trust silence. He very much liked the use of the tacit, or silent, count, where nothing is happening. He also liked percussion. His is a world of angular movement and mystery, quiet, semi-taciturn and percussive.
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The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.
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Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.
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Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune and Agnes de Mille fought to be director-choreographers. They were just not going to do it any other way because the choreographer is so often at the bottom of the creative totem pole when you put a show together. So with that power you get a more direct point-of-view and that helps something called style.
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You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have to save yourself by spreading your horizons. It's the paradox of this profession. The very thing that makes you very good will destroy you.
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Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.
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Mr Fosse was obviously influenced by Brecht and Weill, as well as Bergman and Fellini, and you could see the influence of vaudeville and African American hoofing - and Fred Astaire, too.
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In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.
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You get to a certain point in your life and you think you can do it all. And then you do do it all, and then you have to top yourself.
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