Ann grew up in Liverpool, the youngest of five children.
She moved to Frodsham in Cheshire when she married and she has three grown up children
and four grandchildren. Her daughter, a charity fund raiser, lives locally ,
one son, a surveyor, lives in Cheltenham and the other, an accountant, lives in Chicago,
which gives here an excuse to fly over to the USA each year.
She met her partner Alan in the late nineteen eighties when she joined a sequence dancing
club. They were both introduced to line dancing by a friend of Alan’s in the mid nineties and
have been involved with the pastime ever since.
They started their own classes in the summer of 1996 with Alan’s friend Peter as instructor
but in April 1997 Peter decided to retire from teaching. Both Ann and Alan attended teacher
training courses with John Sandham at the BWDA in Preston, where Ann qualified to level 4.
They carried on the club, which they named Bronco Line Dancers. And now run 5 classes
each week, as well as regular Friday night socials.
The club is based in the North Cheshire area.
Ann’s first success with choreography was when she had her dance Thinking about tomorrow
published in Linedancer magazine in January 2002.
Since then she has had a number of dances published in the magazine, the most successful
being, Elliot’s Dream, Caught in the Act, which was nominated for Linedancer Magazine
Intermediated dance of the year in both 2005 and 2006, and No Place to Go which is still
being played in clubs up and down the country.
Ann has appeared in both BWDA magazine’s ‘An interview with…..’ and Linedancer
magazine’s ‘A day in the Life’ articles.
Ann decided to move house in 2006 and she and Alan moved to a bungalow which needed
complete renovation. At one stage they moved out to live on their narrow boat in Nantwich
whilst the building work was being done. This entailed driving backwards and forward to their
classes on dark, rainy nights arriving back on the towpath at midnight armed with flashlights,
computer and amp.
Thankfully, the work on the house is now almost complete and Ann is getting back to
choreography after almost a year off.
Both she and Alan are now looking forward to having more free time as the bungalow and
gardens are a lot more manageable than those at the house they moved from.
(September 2007)