Ann Marie DeAngelo
Ann Marie DeAngelo is an American choreographer, director, producer, teacher, consultant and former dancer - an expert in all areas of dance.
She founded her own experimental troupe in the late 1980s called Ballet D'Angelo, creating several full-evening productions, which toured extensively in Europe.
Reviewing her performance in Pas des Deesses by Robert Joffrey, New York Times critic Anna Kisselgoff wrote, "[DeAngelo] is a most spectacular dancer who never fails to dazzle.... [She] opened the ballet in a highly virtuosic solo that exploited her phenomenal technique.
At the competition, she met the legendary ballerina Alicia Alonso, and was invited to perform at her International Ballet Festival in Havanna, Cuba.
[7] In 1989 she performed on Sesame Street with James "Skeeter Rabbit" Higgins in a duet created by Toni Basil called Stop Dancing.
In 1984 she received a Jerome Robbins Foundation grant to create a piece for the Joffrey II called In Kazmidity with music by Léo Delibes[8] (later staged for Ballet Trockadero in 1990[9]).
She choreographed Autumn Baachanal for the film Pavlova: A Tribute to the Legendary Ballerina, performing with Ron Reagan Jr.[10] In 1990 DeAngelo created Out of Silence with music by Yanni for the National Ballet of Cuba; and also a pas de trois called Lilith featuring Lorena Feijoo.
The piece included ballet dancers, hip hop and tap dance artists, Cirque du Soleil veterans, gymnastics, and cheerleading in a cross-genre exploration of movement in many forms.
[16] DeAngelo also used American dancers and imported unique talent such as US Olympic team rhythmic gymnast Charlene Edwards and Mr. Wiggles - introducing a cross-pollination of work to Mexico.
In 2010 she commissioned Marvin Hamlisch to write a new song called "I'm Really Dancing" with lyrics by Rupert Holmes for that year's gala.
She has worked with theater artists and Tony Award winners such as Paula Abdul, Debbie Allen, Michael Douglas, Christine Ebersole, Robert Fairchild, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Earl Jones, Sutton Foster, Savion Glover, Jane Krakowski, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Bebe Neuwirth, Billy Porter, Ann Reinking, Chita Rivera, Kelly Ripa, Tommy Tune, Ben Vereen, and Karen Ziemba, as well as producer Nigel Lythgoe.
In 2009 she was director of the show Thank You, Gregory – A Tribute to Legends of Tap that opened at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, featuring Maurice Hines and Jason Samuels Smith.
Awardees included Debbie Allen, Michelle Dorrance, David Parsons, Wendy Whelan, and Mr. Wiggles, who performed on the evening celebration along with others including Bessie Award winner Ephrat Asherie, Contemporary West Dance Theatre, DNA, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Parsons Dance, and SYTYCD winner Lex Ishimoto.
[26] She has taught for numerous dance companies and universities, as well as workshops to non-dancers called "Bringing Performance to Life" at resorts and spas.
