PROFESSIONAL FEEDBACK
Ms. Ankah's talents are truly inspiring. She combines her theater skills with dance technique; she creates and develops talent in other dancers, actors and singers who work with her.
—Alice Helpern, Ph. D. (National Endowment for the Arts dance panel)
Floanne Ankah combined her passion for dance with her vocal and acting training to arrive a unique style of dance performance, which incorporates abstract vocalization. I find her technique to be fertile and striking.
—Quinn Batson, (Offoffoff.com dance contributor)
One of the reasons I love your film so much is that it has all the great stuff that an experimental film has, but you put emotions to it, which dance films often don't have; you have face, you have gesture, you have movement. You were able to marry the two. The art direction - the costumes, the background - is very evocative.
—Bart Weiss, (22nd Dallas Videofest, post screening Q&A, founder) |
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PRESS AND REVIEWS
Floanne Ankah, Kai Kleinbard and the choreographer [Mina Nishimura] wandered around the bare black stage as if they were being blown about. You feel pulled into a foreign imagination, spellbound by her spooky, affectless presence. Only when the strangeness feels forced — and therefore not strange at all — does the spell break.
— Claudia La Rocco (Spooky Imagery and Family Nostalgia, The New York Times, October 9, 2009)
One Way is not a narrative, nor a documentary; it is a breath of air. (...) One Way is an experience that developed in the natural course of events, when Floanne Ankah’s troupe decided to organize an improvised choreographic performance in June in the streets of SoHo, in New York: onlookers, surprised, became audience, sometimes collaborators.
— Mathilde Schneider (Floanne Ankah, a "ONE WAY" French dancer in New York, France-Amérique, November 2008)
In echO, one of the black and white films shot on the Brooklyn Bridge featured two contemporary dancers evolving on a Schubert melody. It was gracious and fashionable at the same time. Proof that we can melt everything.
— Claire Derville (You were dancing? Well, film it now, France-Amérique/Le Figaro, June 2006)
When a group of underground artists put their creative lives together, the result is a unique performance filled with true movement, connected sounds and touching characters.
— France-Amérique, NYC, April 2006
As an obvious and determined new virtuoso, Floanne is someone to watch out for as she is cultivated in a multitude of fields that are made to be seen and savored.
— Barre Gazette, MA, February 2006
French sophisticated/French romantic/French crazy and French fries, Floanne’s strongest asset is definitely her grounded technique, combining voice and movement.
— Mediabistro.com, March 2006
Floanne Ankah, emerging triple-threat performer, presents her original multidisciplinary show in Chelsea.
— GO nyc, April 2006
Sometimes luminous and colorful, others softer, spontaneous or unexpected, all those images introduced to the public the sensitivity of Floanne Ankah.
— Notre Region, 1998 (on photographic exhibition in France)
