Julie Klausner remembers the dancer and actress Ann Reinking, who starred in the musicals “Annie” and Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz,” after her death.

Julie Klausner remembers the dancer and actress Ann Reinking, who starred in the musicals “Annie” and Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz,” after her death.

Ann Reinking, who died Saturday at the age of seventy-one, was talented at being joyful—you could see her big heart through her big eyes whenever she flashed that sparkling, goofy, wonderful smile—but I liked her best when she didn’t even smirk. When Reinking pouted, or had the restraint to let her sculpted jaw hover austerely while her outrageous body did the work of showing how much she loved moving it for us, she was at her smoldering best.

Julie Klausner remembers the dancer and actress Ann Reinking, who starred in the musicals “Annie” and Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz,” after her death.

Ann Reinking, who died Saturday at the age of seventy-one, was talented at being joyful—you could see her big heart through her big eyes whenever she flashed that sparkling, goofy, wonderful smile—but I liked her best when she didn’t even smirk. When Reinking pouted, or had the restraint to let her sculpted jaw hover austerely while her outrageous body did the work of showing how much she loved moving it for us, she was at her smoldering best.