The Actionettes is an all-girl 60s dance troupe
We choreograph our own synchronised routines to songs by 60s girl groups, such as the Shangri-Las, the Ronnettes, the Marvelettes, and other 60s icons such as Nancy Sinatra and Dusty Springfield. We're London-based and dance at clubs, events, with bands, and at own club - Sophisticated Boom Boom.

"We don't do it for cash or for fame - but for the love of dancing, dressing up, cheap glamour and each other. We're 'strictly amateur' - no-one has experience in dance, except for years on the dance floor every Saturday night." Crepe Suzette

The Actionettes started in January 2000, inspired by a dance troupe The Devilettes seen a few months earlier at the Las Vegas Grind (an annual 60s garage-rock fest). After seeing The Devilettes, the Todd sisters (Tourette and Crepe Suzette) had to set up a troupe when they got home.

"We wanted to create the same 60s-kitsch brand of synchronised dancing, together with the costumes, attitude and the strong feminine celebration of all shapes and sizes" Tourette.

Three of the core Actionettes were in the band The Action Time. They soon rallied other friends and then absorbed new members from the audiences at shows - enthusiastic dancers who just had to join in! The size of the group is now about 15.

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Find out more about the Actionettes club night - Sophisticated Boom Boom!
How to book the Actionettes

Some nice things people say....

"I met a bunch of great people in London:.. some gals from smiling go-go troupe The Actionettes (especially a really lovely lady named Jo). Imagine 10 or so spunky British girls, all shapes and sizes, workin' it to some go-go hits. It ain't Shindig, but they just get out there and have FUN. No pretense, no snobbery. For that, I give them the utmost and highest respect. They should be introduced formally to the World Famous Pontani Sisters in NY. Go-go world domination! (Ah, it's really an attitude and pizzazz more than the moves... Though the moves make everything that much more enjoyable)."
Solvej, USA (She knows the Ponatani Sisters!)

"...thank you so so much for performing at unskinny bop. you were fabulous as always, and it was particularly nice to have several Actionettes around shimmying away for much of the night...."
ruth and tamsin, unskinny bop

(About the Actionettes workshop at Bristol Ladyfest 2003)
"...Looking back at the stage, the workshop does seem to be having a wonderful effect on everyone involved. With each shake of the hips, the smiles get wider...."
Clare Rudebeck, The Independent Review, 27 Aug 2003

"...The Actionettes, for the uninitiated, are a dance troupe of fabulous ladies who, inspired by a trip to Vegas, put on the best club nights in London in order to pay homage to their heroines from the 1960s. An Actionette evening, where twelve-ish ladies in wigs and spangly dresses perform formation dances on a tiny stage, will leave you with an idiotically happy grin for days. And if you look about you at the audience, who are often dressed up too, you can see the joy reflected on their smiling faces as they jiggle about to the strains of 'Leader of the Pack' . And not only that, they have the most gorgeous pink website, where you can meet the ladies and learn that they all have names ending in 'ette'. Are you in love yet?..."
Flamingo, Pamzine

"Hi there - I came to your night on Saturday and thought it was fabulous. The singing and dancing were fantastic and I don't think I've ever seen anything so
fun in my life. Anyway - thanks for a fab night - really hope to come
to another of your events soon"
Jo

"I'm sorry I don't have any photos for you, but I just wanted to say that Sat 4 Jan 2003 was the day my life changed, when I first saw the Actionettes perform...well maybe not actually life-changing, but very enjoyable nonetheless!"
Deven

"heeyyyyyy... very great web... sorry I don´t speak too much english.... kisses from spain"
señor banana

"oh, how lovely your site looks, by the way... that's all."
Rhodri

"I live in Tokyo, Japan, but please send me some info. You ladies are FABULOUS, I'm totally impressed... I'd wanna dance with them if I were in london."
Yayoi

"There's so many of you, and all on the stage at once, dancing in the same kind of way. What co-ordination!"
Dave

"The Actionettes make Pan's People seem like The Lionel Blair Dancers!"
Jasper B

"Sure beat the hootin' whelk out of 'Peche á la Frog"
errm ok, thankyou Sir Norman Greebe-Streebly!