Lesson 10: Tacky Annie
Jazz Steps I: The Essentials
Another name is Tack Annie. One more step that was originally a tap dance step executed with brushes, shuffles and taps. Steps were normally given their names either in connection to the imitation source (animal for example) or association of the move or after the person who created them and did them better than anyone else. Shorty Snowden made up the Shorty George , and "a shuffle step known as the Tack Annie was by a pickpocket names Annie" - from Dancing, a Guide for the Dancer You Can be by Ellen Jacob In “The World of Earl Hines”, Earl Hines, American jazz pianist, acknowledges that in Chicago during the mid - 1920s there was a woman named Tack Annie. She had a couple of girlfriends who looked after her. It appears that Tack Annie was the roughest woman he had ever seen in this life, so tough that it took several man to hold her down (Dance, The World of Hines, 35)
Another name is Tack Annie. One more step that was originally a tap dance step executed with brushes, shuffles and taps. Steps were normally given their names either in connection to the imitation source (animal for example) or association of the move or after the person who created them and did them better than anyone else. Shorty Snowden made up the Shorty George , and "a shuffle step known as the Tack Annie was by a pickpocket names Annie" - from Dancing, a Guide for the Dancer You Can be by Ellen Jacob In “The World of Earl Hines”, Earl Hines, American jazz pianist, acknowledges that in Chicago during the mid - 1920s there was a woman named Tack Annie. She had a couple of girlfriends who looked after her. It appears that Tack Annie was the roughest woman he had ever seen in this life, so tough that it took several man to hold her down (Dance, The World of Hines, 35)