Annette Walker is our featured tap dancer at Mycenae House on Friday 13th June 2014 from 8pm. With the failing health of Will Gaines – tap dancing legend from Detroit – this was scheduled as a Benefit COncert with The Honkin’ Hepcats, Mich Foster and the Phil Mead Trio. Sadly on Wednesday 7th May Will passed away. However – The Show Goes On – as Will would have wished
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Celebrating the Life of Will Gaines
Tagged with: 2014, event, jazz, tap, will gaines
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance
Sugar Dandies’ High Tea in aid of Dance UK and ADAD
I was delighted to take part in this champagne high tea, fundraising event for Dance UK and ADAD at the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden, on Sun 6 April 2014. A phenomenal £40,000 was raised.
Tagged with: 2014, adad, dance, dance uk, event, fundraiser, gig, one dance uk, tap
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance
Venus Nights
Sunday 30th March, 7:30pm showtime, London’s Hippodrome Casino, Leicester Square. I had a thoroughly fantastic time sharing the stage with talented female musicians at an event for women’s charities.
In the Press
Read press reviews and interviews about Annette. Includes theatre, tap dance and music concerts with quotes and links from original sources.
Tagged with: articles, interviews, news, Press, profiles, reviews
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance, Theatre, Film & TV
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance, Theatre, Film & TV
Taal: Tap meets Afro-eclectic dance @ROH2
Taal is a collaboration between Alesandra Seutin (Afro Eclectic dance) and Annette Walker (Tap dance). It is one of the new ROH2 commissions for Exposure: Dance 2011
Word Sound Power
My most recent solo performance involved a dynamic 25 minute set involving an experimental collaboration with a drummer for at the Albany in October 2009.
Jazzonia & the Harlem Diaspora
CHELSEA space
Curated by Diana Rodriguez & Judith Waring
01.07.09 – 01.08.09
In this show at CHELSEA space the London legacies of singers Adelaide Hall and Elisabeth Welch, who both had been in Paris with ‘La Baker’ are re-united with Jazz Tap legends Chuck Green and Honi Coles.
Tagged with: 2009, adelaide hall, chelsea space, dance, event, exhibition, history, jazz, london, tap
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Tap dance
My first Glastonbury Festival
The longest I’ve ever spent at a British music festival – 6 days camping and hanging out in a field in Somerset (I got very tanned!)
Tagged with: aerial-circus, circus, festival, Silks
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Projects
Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Projects
