Jo Ann Endicott

Josephine Ann Endicott (born 1950 or 1951 in Sydney ) is an Australian dancer. She was one of the most important employees and dancers in the Pina Bausch dance theater .

Life

At the age of seven, Endicott took ballet lessons. In 1968 she was accepted into the Australian Ballet Company in Melbourne . After her weight problems were held up, she moved to London in 1972 . A year later she met Pina Bausch at a rehearsal , whom she hired as a dancer for the Wuppertal dance theater . In The Seven Deadly Sins , the first piece that tried out a new form of dance theater, she played and danced the leading role of Anna 1 in 1976 . Since she was able to express her feelings better and more intensely than Bausch himself, she gave her many tasks and central roles in later pieces, for example in Komm tanz mit mir (1977), Arien (1979) and Two cigarettes in the dark (1985).

In 1987, emotionally exhausted and burned out, she separated from Pina Bausch and returned to Australia. From 1994 she worked again as a guest for the ensemble. But after seven years she withdrew again. Since 2007 she has been working for the dance theater in Wuppertal as rehearsal director and from 2009 for the newly established Pina Bausch Foundation also for film archive material. In 2009/2010 Endicott and her colleague Bénèdicte Billiet studied the dance piece “Kontakthof with teenagers from 14” with Wuppertal students every Saturday morning for 1½ years.

In 1999 her work journal I am a decent woman was published , in 2009 her second book Waiting for Pina about her work with Pina Bausch as her dancer, assistant and rehearsal manager. In 2002 she appeared in her solo piece Gala Evening, based on a model from Franz Xaver Kroetzen's play Request Concert .

Jo Ann Endicott is married to the actor Ferdinand Grözinger and now lives with her family in southern Germany.

Awards

1976: Award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
2008: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
2011: Winner of the Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation
2012: Officier des Arts et des Lettres .

Fonts

Jo Ann Endicott: I'm a decent woman. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39502-5
Jo Ann Endicott: Waiting for Pina. Records of a dancer. Henschel, Berlin 2009, 128 pages, ISBN 978-3-89487-631-9 , approx. 60 photos by Gert Weigelt and other dance photographers.

Movies

My dance with Pina: Jo Ann Endicott's memories of Pina Bausch. Documentary, Germany, 2019, 37:14 min., Script and direction: Birgit Adler-Conrad, production: ZDF , 3sat , first broadcast: June 11, 2019 on ZDF, synopsis by ARD , online video available until December 22, 2019 .
Waiting for Pina. Love at first sight. Television documentary, Germany, 2010, 25 min., Written and directed by Birgit Adler-Conrad, first broadcast: April 1, 2010 on ZDFtheaterkanal , online video depublished , review .
Dance dreams - young people dance "Kontakthof" by Pina Bausch. Dance Documentation, Germany, 2010, 90 min., Book: Anne Linsel , director: Anne Linsel, Rainer Hoffmann, production: Tag / Traum Filmproduktion, summary (PDF; 229 kB) of the Berlinale 2010, interview with the Wuppertal film director Anne Linsel ( Memento from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), WDR , February 14, 2010.
Pina Bausch's “dance dreams” in the cinema. Report, Germany, 2010, 3:25 min., Book: Andrea Budke, camera: Bruno Trawinski, production: ZDF , editing: Sundays , first broadcast: May 2, 2010.

Web links

Literature by and about Jo Ann Endicott in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and reviews of works by Jo Ann Endicott at perlentaucher.de
“Come dance with me” for over 30 years. In: Solinger Tageblatt , May 19, 2010

Individual evidence

↑ In: Waiting for Pina. In: ZDFtheaterkanal , April 1, 2010, cf. ZDFtheaterkanal in April 2010.
↑ Anne Linsel : “Come dance with me”. In: Die Zeit , January 24, 1986.
↑ Horst Koegler : Jo Ann Endicott in "Gala Evening". In: tanznetz.de , March 7, 2002.
↑ Ursula Popp: Jo Ann Endicott honored in France. In: Musenblätter , June 16, 2008.
↑ Picture gallery: Cérémonie de remise de décorations à Josephine Ann Endicott, Mourad Merzouki, et Marie Chouinard. In: French Ministry of Culture , January 23, 2012, accessed July 3, 2019.
↑ Video Waiting for Pina in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 30, 2014. (offline)
↑ Video on Sundays: Pina Bausch's “Tanzträume” in the cinema (May 2, 2010, 9:02 am, 3:25 min.) In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 30, 2014. (offline)

personal data
SURNAME	Endicott, Jo Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Endicott, Josephine Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian dancer
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney

[1] In: Waiting for Pina. In: ZDFtheaterkanal , April 1, 2010, cf. ZDFtheaterkanal in April 2010.

[2] Anne Linsel : “Come dance with me”. In: Die Zeit , January 24, 1986.

[3] Horst Koegler : Jo Ann Endicott in "Gala Evening". In: tanznetz.de , March 7, 2002.

[4] Ursula Popp: Jo Ann Endicott honored in France. In: Musenblätter , June 16, 2008.

[5] Picture gallery: Cérémonie de remise de décorations à Josephine Ann Endicott, Mourad Merzouki, et Marie Chouinard. In: French Ministry of Culture , January 23, 2012, accessed July 3, 2019.

[6] Video Waiting for Pina in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 30, 2014. (offline)

[7] Video on Sundays: Pina Bausch's “Tanzträume” in the cinema (May 2, 2010, 9:02 am, 3:25 min.) In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 30, 2014. (offline)