We attempt many different dances, some old and traditional and some new and created in-house. The style of AnnieMation is eclectic and evolving and we have been known to add our own unique little flourishes to liven things up. That way we never have to admit to making A MISTAKE!!!
The Dances & The Tunes
Our current repertoire includes:
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Dance Music
Tingley Ballaquhidder Lasses
Rope Walk (danced with ropes!) Kafoozalum
Ansty Mill Brian Boru’s March
Saddleworth The Osyer GIrl
Gisburn Cock o’ the North
Green Willow The Sheffield Hornpipe
Cosgrove (the Teflon dance, cos there’s no sticks!) Merrily Kissed The Quaker
Cotton Reels (created by Sally Messenger) Old Joe Clark & GoodBye Liza Jane
Preston Royal (thanks Margaret C ) Uncles Jig
The Seventeenth (invented on March the 17th!) Speed the Plough
Newtown (created by Rosie Forth) Horses Brawl
Jack’s Rant (Video at 40 seconds) Donkey Ride & Peat Fire Flame
Polka Dot (learned at a workshop from Alive and Kicking) Polka Dot
Tinners Rabbit Not for Joe
Carr Lodge Polka (by Trefor Owen) British Grenadiers
Bonnie Breastknot (Infrequently Danced)
Oyster Feast (by Sally, again) (Infrequently Danced)
Desperate Dan Flowers of Edinburgh & My Love she’s but a Lassie Yet
We are hoping also to revive some more of the dances we used to do in the past which have been neglected as we’ve been teaching the core repertoire to new dancers.
Here are out dance calls
1- Tingley, Saddleworth, Cotton Reels, Piper’s Ash, 17th, Green Willow, Anstey Mill, Newton, Polka Dot, Preston Royal
2 – Gisburn, Cossgrove, Jack;s Rant, Ropewalk, Tinner’s Rabbit, Carr Lodge, Oyster Feast, Hindley, Clitheroe, Lostock Junction