Several Wiggly Dancers in Top of the Tots.
The Wiggly Dancers are the background dancers that appear in various Wiggles video specials, television shows, and live concerts.
During concerts, the dancers will often greet the audience, present safety information and other announcements before the show starts, go into the crowd to collect presents for the Wiggly Friends (i.e. roses for Dorothy the Dinosaur) or safely escort the friends through the crowd while greeting the audience.
On occasion, some dancers (most notably Sam Moran in the mid 2000s) are given headset mics to provide additional backing vocals while performing during live shows.
The name "Wiggly Dancers" was first coined in the end credits of Wiggly Safari; however, it's worth noting that the Wiggles had first begun using adult background dancers in 1998's Toot Toot!, who appeared alongside the various child dancers they were using at the time.
Main Outfit History[]
Classic Era[]
Arguably their most notable outfits, the dancers frequently wore red button-up jackets decorated with sequined black and white quavers; from Top of the Tots onward, they donned black pants with a single stripe on each side in the four main Wiggle colors.
These costumes made their official debut in 2001's Wiggly Party: Live in Concert tour, with their first appearance in a video special being Wiggly Safari the following year.
Both the red jackets and the multi-Wiggle-colored striped pants were last seen in Wiggledancing! Live in Concert; however, they 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 various performances, most notably the 2011 iTunes Live EP, the 2016 reunion shows. and concerts from 2022 onward.
Sam Era[]
Starting with Pop Go The Wiggles and concerts from 2007 onward, the dancers would regularly wear 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 (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 in the Apples and Bananas video special; however, they later reappeared during concerts in 2017 (worn by backing musicians only) and are still used on occasion from 2022 onward. The striped pants alone, in combination with the aforementioned red jackets, have also been worn 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 onward, they started appearing in white shirts with denim vests and pants covered in flowers; from 2019 onward, they also started wearing pink shirts and white pants (male dancers) and pink feathery overalls and white shirts (female dancers).
Trivia[]
The blue variant of the thick-striped pants worn by dancer Ryan Desaulnier during the Wiggly Party: Live in Concert tour.
The white-striped pants worn by dancer Ben Murray in Wiggle Bay.
- Prior to wearing the multi-Wiggle-color striped pants, the dancers first wore pants with a thin white stripe on each side in Wiggle Bay, Whoo Hoo Wiggly Gremlins!, and Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!. During the Wiggly Party: Live in Concert tour and in Wiggly Safari, the stripe on their pants was thicker and only had one of the various skivvy colors, similar to what the Wiggles themselves would later wear from 2007-2012.
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