Flo Ankah

Flo Ankah

Flo Ankah (* 5. February 1983 in Bourgoin-Jallieu as Florence Annequin ) is a French actress and filmmaker . As a chanteuse she appears under the pseudonym Floanne . Born and raised in France, she has lived in New York City since 2000 . Ankah is the founder of SIMPLE Production , an organization promoting young artists from different cultures.

Life

Floanne grew up on a farm in Châbons in the Isère department with two siblings. She graduated from Merce Cunningham Dance Studio and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater for improvisation comedy . This was followed by further training in acting at HB Studio and the School for Film and Television , at the Alvin Ailey School . In New York she initially worked as an assistant to Jerry Schatzberg , the singer Frank Simms and the sculptor Strong-Cuevas, as well as to Frances Kazan, whom she helped to organize the archive of Elia Kazan .

play

Flo Ankah worked on the production crew for various cinema and television films (e.g. Then She Found Me , One Life to Live ) and theater ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Julius Caesar ), as well as at the Public Theater. She also gave readings with theater greats such as Israel Horovitz and worked as a singer for feature films ( The Limits of Control , What Just Happened ) and commercials. The web series Life with Flow is about her work on short film collaborations. Floanne plays roles at the Magnet Theater and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

singing

She is a chanteuse and songwriter . Her repertoire includes French chanson , American classical music and her own songs. She presents her solo nightclub shows, Floin 'to America and Edith Piaf Alive with director Isengart and Lina Koutrakos in nightclubs such as Joe's Pub, The Metropolitan Room, The Triad Theater, The Harmonie Club, Symphony Space and the New York Botanical Garden . Her interpretation of Michelle of the Beatles is on the 75th edition of The Beatles Complete on ukulele. She plays in the Broadway-style musical Loving the Silent Tears , directed by Vincent Paterson, alongside Jody Watley , Jon Secada , Liz Callaway, Debbie Gravitte , Kiril Kulish, Mark Janicello and Patti Cohenour. Floanne trains her voice coloratura soprano with April Evans.

dance

Ankah's choreographies merge yoga exercises, organic movements and the human voice as a musical instrument . Her creations are collaborative and often consist of video projections and soundscapes. She has presented her work in the movement research series at Judson Church, the Merce Cunningham Studio, Abrons Arts Center, Dance New Amsterdam and HERE Arts Center, and has performed with artists such as Mina Nishimura, Nina Morrison, Meredith Monk (in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ), John Duncan , Michou Szabo and Noémie Lafrance (in McCarren Park Pool).

Movie

Ankah combines dance / performance and film and makes experimental films . Her film ONE WAY won the Best Experimental Film award at the 2008 Big Apple Film Festival . Your film Waterfront Access? , won the 2010 Golden Reel Award in the Best Dance Film category at the Tiburon International Film Festival , which resulted in a new collaboration with artist Joe Zolkowski . She is currently working on a documentary entitled Le Maréchal et l'Astragale about her father and his farm in south-east France.

Stage appearances

year	title	role	theatre	comment
October 27, 2012	Loving the Silent Tears	French singer	Shrine Auditorium , Los Angeles	Broadway-scale musical
July 28, 2012 & March 24, 2013	Edith Piaf Alive	Solo performance	Joe's Pub, New York City	Off-Broadway Debut (sold out)
June 16, 2012	Water Lily Concerts	Solo performance	New York Botanical Garden	Monet Evenings (sold out)

Web links

Commons : Flo Ankah  - Collection of Images

• Flo Ankah in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website Flo Anka
• Website Floanne u. Flo Anka
• Simple Production: artistic endeavors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Assistant to Strong-Cuevas . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
2. ^ One Life to Live . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
3. ^ Inwood Shakespeare Festival . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
4. ^ Church at the NYC Public Theater . Archived from the original on February 5, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2013. 
5. ↑ What Just Happened . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
6. ^ French voice-overs . Archived from the original on June 26, 2009. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
7. ^ Life with Flow, the webisode . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
8. ↑ French songstress Floanne Ankah . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
9. ↑ La Bohème de Floanne Ankah . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
10. ↑ No Strings Attached by Floanne Ankah . Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2013. 
11. ↑ Michelle on The Beatles Complete on ukulele . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
12. ↑ SIMPLE production: artistic director . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
13. ^ Timmy's Idea in Time Out NY . Time Out NY. Retrieved October 6, 2009.
14. ^ Claudia La Rocco: Timmy's Idea in the New York Times , New York Times. October 10, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2009. 
15. ^ Nina Morrison's Girl Adventure . Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2013. 
16. ↑ Gia Kourlas: Ascension Variations in NYTimes , New York Times. March 7, 2009. Retrieved March 6, 2009. 
17. ↑ Noemie Lafrance's Agora II . Retrieved April 12, 2013.
18. ↑ SIMPLE production: art films . Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2013. 
19. ↑ 5th Annual BAFF Announces Award Winners. Big Apple Film Festival, November 23, 2008, accessed March 29, 2013 . 
20. ^ Past Winners of the "Golden Reel Awards". Tiburon International Film Festival, accessed March 29, 2013 . 
21. ↑ Le Maréchal et l'Astragale, official blog . Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2013.