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Several Wiggly Dancers in Top of the Tots.

The Wiggly Dancers are the background dancers that appear in various Wiggles videos, television shows, and live concerts. During concerts, the dancers often greet the audience, rely safety instructions and other announcements before the show starts, and go into the crowd to collect presents for the Wiggly Friends or safely escort the friends through the crowd while saying hello. On some occasions, various dancers are given headset mics to provide additional backing vocals while performing during live shows.

The name "Wiggly Dancers" was first used during the end credits of Wiggly Safari, although the Wiggles had first begun using adult background dancers starting from Toot Toot onwards alongside the various child dancers they had been primarily using in videos up to that point.

Main Outfit History[]

Classic Era[]

Starting from their debut in Wiggly Safari, the dancers regularly wore red jackets decorated in sequenced black and white musical notes, and from Top of the Tots onward, black pants with a single stripe on each side in the four main Wiggle colors. Prior to the release of the former video, the red jackets had also appeared during the Wiggly Party: Live in Concert tour of 2001.

Both the red jackets and the multi-Wiggle striped pants were last seen in Wiggledancing! Live in Concert, and would later be worn by performers and show hosts at Dreamworld and Six Flags. The red jackets by themselves have also been worn by backing musicians during the 2011 ITunes Live EP, the 2016 reunion shows. and concerts from 2022 onwards.

Sam Era[]

Starting with Pop Go The Wiggles and during concerts from 2007 onwards, the dancers now regularly wore a red cropped vest with a black shirt and black pants (males) or skirts (females) with a red stripe on each pant leg or across the hem of the skirt above the knees, while the female dancers also started wearing heels around this time rather than the shoes they previously wore. The vest, shirt, and pants/skirts were last seen during concerts in 2014 and Apples and Bananas, and later reappeared during concerts in 2017 (worn by backing musicians only) and occasionally from 2022 onwards. The striped pants alone have also been worn in combination with the aforementioned red jackets by backing musicians during various live shows.

By late 2007, the dancers also started appearing in a variety of outfits inspired by traditional circus clowns. There were two main sets of these costumes with different color schemes: one in black and white, and another in white and the four main Wiggle colors. The black and white outfits were seen during concerts from 2007 -2009 and appeared in Hot Poppin Popcorn, Let's Eat!, and Ukulele Baby!, while the white and Wiggle-colored outfits were seen during concerts from 2011-2013 and appeared in Go Santa Go! and Apples and Bananas.

Usual Outfits[]

Circus Themed Outfits[]

Current Era[]

In recent years, the dancers have consistently alternated between two different sets of outfits in addition to occasionally wearing the aforementioned vest, shirt, and pants/skirt seen during Sam's tenure with the group.

Starting from 2018 onwards, they started appearing in white shirts with denim vests and pants covered in flowers, and from 2019 onwards, also started wearing pink shirts and white pants (male dancers) and pink feathery overalls and white shirts (female dancers).

Trivia[]

Wiggly Dancer Pants Wiggly Party Live

The blue variant of the thick-striped pants worn by dancer Ryan Desaulnier during the Wiggly Party: Live in Concert tour.

Wiggly Dancer Pants Wiggle Bay

The white-striped pants worn by dancer Ben Murray in Wiggle Bay.

Characters
Main Characters
The Wiggles (current)
Anthony Wiggle (since 1991) • Lachy Wiggle (since 2013) • Tsehay Wiggle (since 2021) • Simon Wiggle (since 2013)
The Wiggles (secondary)
Evie Wiggle (since 2021) • Lucia Wiggle (since 2022) • Caterina Wiggle (since 2022) • John Wiggle (since 2021)
The Wiggles (former)
Murray Wiggle (1991-2012) • Jeff Wiggle (1991-2012) • Greg Wiggle (1991-2006; 2012) • Phillip Wiggle (1991-1992) • Sam Wiggle (2006-2012) • Emma Wiggle (2013-2021) • Kelly Wiggle (secondary; 2021-2022)
The Wiggly Friends
Dorothy the Dinosaur (since 1991) • Henry the Octopus (since 1992) • Captain Feathersword (since 1993) • Wags the Dog (since 1995) • Shirley Shawn the Unicorn (since 2019)
Supporting Characters
Officer Beaples (1997-2000, 2006, 2013-present) • Bok the Hand Puppet (since 2021) • Paloma the Mermaid (since 2021) • The Tree of Wisdom (since 2022) • Buddy (since 2024)
Minor Characters
Flora Door (1999-2000, 2021) • Hot-Pots The Oven (1999-2006, 2023) • Foodman (1998, 2004, 2009, 2023) • Foodgirl (2023) • Fiona The Circus Leader (2010) • The Little Wiggles (1997, 1999, 2005-2006, 2015, 2017, 2020) • Magdalena the Mermaid (2002, 2006, 2020) • Professor Singalottasonga (1999, 2005-2006) • Ringo the Ringmaster (2009-2012) • Santa Claus (since 1997) • The Wagettes (1997-1999, 2003) • Wally the Great (1997) • The Wiggly Dancers (since 2000)
Selected Guest Stars
Christine Anu (2000, 2016) • Morgan Crowley (2001, 2017) • Lee Hawkins (2014) • Paul the Cook (Paul Hester) (1998) • The Irwins - Steve, Terri, Bindi and Robert (2002, 2017, 2024) • Kylie Minogue (2009, 2017) • Robert Rakete (2014-2015, 2021) • Alfonso Rinaldi (2002-2006, 2012) • Al Roker (2011) • Leo Sayer (2008) • Daryl Somers (2011) • Ross Wilson (2003, 2017)
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