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But any writing about Ann Reinking is missing the point not to mention the flex and the ankle roll.
Its best just to watch her in motion.
She embodied a new ideal of American womanhood: broad-shouldered, muscular, full of mischief and capacity.
(When she danced with a man, she dancedbesidehim.
Even if he lifted her, she seemed about to lift him right back.)
shrug that accompanied some movement of ferocious virtuosity.
She got the part.
(She knew whereof she acted.)
The two of them put together the dance as a gift to perform in the tired mans living room.
Reinkings kindness and big-heartedness turn the famous Fosse black oil into something as wholesome as milk.
Maybe you too saw it on a VHS tape, a scratchy version someone enterprisingly recorded off TV?
This revival might well be her legacyit certainly won her a Tonybut its also her great gift to us.
