Josephine Ann Endicott

Josephine Ann "Jo Ann" Endicott (born 1950) is an Australian dancer. She danced with Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch dance ensemble in Wuppertal, Germany, from 1973 and 1987, and continued to dance with the company as a guest dancer from 1994.

Early life and education Josephine Ann Endicott was born in 1950 in Sydney, Australia. She has two older brothers, and her parents were divorced when she was growing up.

Endicott was a solo dancer before she joined the Pina Bausch's company in 1973 in London when Bausch was putting together a team to form her own company. The two met at Covent Garden in London when Endicott was rehearsing a performance. During this time, she collaborated with theatre director Hansgünther Heyme in 1979.

From 1994 onwards, Endicott became a guest dancer of Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal.

In 2020, she restaged Bausch's The Rite of Spring in École des Sables in Senegal, with an ensemble of dancers from a number of African countries.

Publications Endicot published two books about her work with Bausch: Warten auf Pina / Waiting for Pina (2009)

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