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40°43′04″N 73°59′53″W / 40.717884°N 73.998107°W / 40.717884; -73.998107

Flo Ankah
at the 5th Big Apple Film Festival, 2008
Born
Florence Annequin

Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
Occupation(s)Actress, Singer, Filmmaker
Websitehttp://www.floanne.com/

Flo Ankah (born Florence Annequin) is an actress[1] and filmmaker also known as a singer[2] under the mononym Floanne. She was born and raised in France, and has lived in New York City since 2000. Ankah is the founder of SiMPLE production,[3] an organization committed to the development of new interdisciplinary works that integrate the talent of innovative and "sparkling" artists from various cultures.

Career

Actor

Floanne Ankah[4] has appeared in film (Then She Found Me),[5] on television (One Life to Live),[6] in the theater (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Julius Caesar[7]) including at The Public Theater[8], and has read alongside theater personalities such as Israel Horowitz. Floanne has worked as a voice artist for major feature films (The Limits of Controls, What Just Happened[9]) and voice-overs for national television commercials.[10] The webisode Life with Flow[11] features her work in several collaborative short films. She performs with Cherub Improv, a volunteer comedy group[12] and is involved at the Magnet Theater and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

Singer

Floanne is a French chanteuse and songstress[13]. Her repertoire includes French chanson, Americain classics and her own songs[14]. She has been performing a solo cabaret show, Floin' to America[15] with directors such as fellow performers Isengart[16] at venues such as The Metropolitan Room, The Triad Theater and monthy residencies at Flûte Gramercy[17] and Brasserie Julien[18]. Her interpretation of Michelle from The Beatles is the 75th release of the Beatles Complete on Yukulele.[19]. She collaborates with numerous NYC musicians her original songs and has a free bi-weekly video podcast on iTunes that features new music videos, live concerts and making-ofs segments[20]. Her opera repertory as a soprano includes Mozart arias such as Barbarina, Susanna and Zerlina and the coloratura role of Olympia.

Dance

Ankah's choreography is drawn from her yoga practice, and integrates movement with the human voice as an instrument.[3] Her creations are collaborative and often include video projections and soundscapes. She has been shown at Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Merce Cunningham Studio, Abrons Arts Center, Dance New Amsterdam and HERE Arts Center, and has performed for artists such as Mina Nishimura,[21][22] Nina Morrison[23], Meredith Monk (at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum[24]), John Duncan, Michou Szabo and Noémie Lafrance (at the McCarren Park Pool)[25].

Filmmaker

Ankah fuses the mediums of dance/performance art and film, creating experimental films.[26] ONE WAY,[27][28] awarded Best Experimental Film at the 5th Big Apple Film Festival at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City in 2008,[29] and Waterfront Access?,[30] awarded the 2010 Golden Reel Award for Best Dance Film at the Tiburon International Film Festival,[31] were the result of a collaboration with artist Joe Zolkowski. She is currently developing a feature documentary in French, Le Maréchal et l'Astragale about her father's farm in South-East France, sharing the flavor of a lifestyle that may soon vanish.[32]

Biographical background

Raised in Châbons, France, Ankah comes from a farm and has two siblings[33]. She graduated from the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater for improvisation comedy. She also trained in acting at the HB Studio and the School for Film and Television, at the Alvin Ailey school for dance, yin yoga and in opera as a soprano. Upon arrival in New York City, she worked as an assitsant to photographer-filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg, singer/songwriter Frank Simms, sculptor Strong-Cuevas,[34] and author Frances Kazan, to organize the archive of late husband Elia Kazan.

Works

Ankah at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's speech to the French community of New York, September 2009

One woman show[35]

  • Floin' to America - (2011) 1.5 hour, cabaret performance of French and American tunes[36]
  • Edith Piaf, alive and living in New York - (2011) 1 hour, a musical play: modern twist to vintage tunes.[37]

Experimental film[26]

  • Imprints - (2007) 4 minutes
  • ONE WAY - (2008) 10 minutes [38] Winner, Best Experimental film - 5th Big Apple Film Festival.[27]
  • Kirk Light - (2009) 4 minutes[39]
  • Waterfront Access? - (2009) 10 minutes[30] Winner, Golden Reel Award for Best Dance Film - Tiburon International Film Festival.[31]

Choreography work[40]

  • Rambling Thoughts - (2004) 5 minutes, video projection with soundscape, spoken word, 1 dancer
  • Vibraform - (2005) 10 minutes, soundscape, 5 dancers using voice
  • echO - (2006) 15 minutes, video projection, 2 dancers using voice[41]
  • Conversation - (2007) 10 minutes, video projection, soundscape, 3 dancers using voice
  • WEEP - (2009) 15 minutes, 3 dancers, 1 digeridoo[42]

Photographic exhibition[43]

  • Regards Croisés (1998)
  • Le Quotidien Des Rails (1999)
  • Where Are You Going? (2005)

References

  1. ^ "French Actress New York".
  2. ^ "French Singer Chanteuse".
  3. ^ a b "SiMPLE production: artistic endeavors". Cite error: The named reference "SIMPLE production" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ Flo Ankah at IMDb
  5. ^ Then She Found Me at IMDb
  6. ^ One Life to Live at IMDb
  7. ^ "Inwood Shakespeare Festival".
  8. ^ "Church at the NYC Public Theatre".
  9. ^ What Just Happened at IMDb
  10. ^ "French voice-overs".
  11. ^ "Life with Flow, the webisode".
  12. ^ "Member of Cherub Improv, volunteer comedy group".
  13. ^ "French Songstress Floanne Ankah".
  14. ^ "Floanne Music French Voice".
  15. ^ "La Bohème de Floanne Ankah".
  16. ^ "No Strings Attached by Floanne Ankah".
  17. ^ "Floanne Always in Love".
  18. ^ "A French Chanteuse in New York".
  19. ^ "Michelle on The Beatles Complete on Yukulele".
  20. ^ "Floanne Free Music on iTunes".
  21. ^ "Timmy's Idea in Time Out NY". Time Out NY. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
  22. ^ La Rocco, Claudia (2009-10-10). "Timmy's Idea in the New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  23. ^ "Nina Morrison's Girl Adventure".
  24. ^ Kourlas, Gia (2009-03-07). "Ascension Variations in NYTimes". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  25. ^ "Noemie Lafrance's Agora II".
  26. ^ a b "SIMPLE production: art films".
  27. ^ a b "ONE WAY, experimental film".
  28. ^ One Way at IMDb
  29. ^ "5th Big Apple Film Festival winners".
  30. ^ a b "Waterfront Access?, experimental film".
  31. ^ a b "Tiburon Film Festival 2010 Winners". Retrieved 2010-03-27.
  32. ^ "Le Maréchal et l'Astragale, official blog".
  33. ^ "Official actor website, biography".
  34. ^ "Assistant to Strong-Cuevas".
  35. ^ "French Chanteuse Classic Music".
  36. ^ "An anthology of French and American tunes". Timeout NY. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  37. ^ "Edith Piaf revival".
  38. ^ "ONE WAY review in France-Amérique". France-Amérique. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
  39. ^ "Kirk Light, dance film".
  40. ^ "SIMPLE production: dance repertoire".
  41. ^ "Review of echO in France-Amérique". France-Amérique. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
  42. ^ "Movement Research listing in NY Times". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  43. ^ "SIMPLE production: photography".
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