Anne Leading

My story is about two dancers with the name Anne. One of them is Anne Jung and the other one Anne Retzlaf. Anne Jung was a dance colleague of mine at HfMT Cologne. The story is about the misunderstanding of gender roles in dance. In third grade of HfMT I've got the chance to dance a duet with Anne Jung. It was a duet about the Crow in Shuberts Winterreise. If someone can dance a swan or crow, it is Anne. I also always had to dance a swan. It seemed that Swan lake was the only Piece I was dancing in during my time as a dancer. The rehearsals of the "Crow" duet were such a reality check for me when it came to leading the duet. I thought because of being the man, I would lead and dominate the work process. It was outrages how fast Anne and the choreographers Emanuele Soavi and Massimo Gerardi shifted the power all to Anne. After one or two rehearsal it sunk in my head and lead to a certain kind of codependency friendship between us. Anne was always the favorite dancer of the teachers and choreographers. She was never really able to create choreography, though. Maybe this is where the misunderstanding is coming from. With me, it was the other way around. Like with the dancer Anne Retzlaff, who was also more of a choreographer. She was one of the few dancers who really inspired me because of her creativity and funk. She gave us first inputs about how life in Berlin works. There are funny stories she told us. One of them was that she cleans for living, and it pays very well. I was really shocked to hear that a dancer with her status has to clean for living. Anne Retzlaf did a lot of pieces in the free performing art scene. She also was dancing with the Ensemble of Komische Oper in Berlin. The Komische Oper has a unique contemporary company you should check out someday. What is your story with the name Anne?