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Annette

Annette is the artistic director and choreographer of Pneumata. She worked principally as a freelance choreographer until she formed Pneumata Dance Productions in 1994, working with high profile names in the industry (see choreography and choreography gallery)

She began choreographing for The Willington Players, South Derbyshire, and the Marjorie Armstrong Stage School where she initially trained, later undertaking various courses with Kirby Flying Ballet, Derby and Surrey Universities etc. Annette founded Pneumata in Hull 1994, through Hull Community Church and continued to undertake both commercial productions and community projects

More recently, Annette has worked on Sweeney Todd and the Wella SP product launch in association with Bulgari Diamonds, La Colonna, Rome

She is currently working on a high end art piece for Clyde Melville Bain and Suzanne Abbot-Lee, establishing Pneumata Youth Dance Company and Performing Arts, in pre production for BLITZ., for the West End and further developing her writing (see below), among other commercial contracts

Annette is currently writing her debut book - an immensely exciting biography called PRIMETIME. PRIMETIME is the life story of Fred Prime Ronnie Biggs’ ‘kidnapper’. Speaking out for the first time, about the 'deniable operation'; Fred divulges the inside story of his personal involvement with Ronnie and reveals the truth of their much written about ‘special relationship’ (Fred became known as ‘The Babysitter’). Further remarkable events of his life include his boxing achievements. As Scots Guards Heavy Weight Boxing Champion in London among other areas, he also KO’d Idi Amin in Africa, went 7 rounds in a covert boxing meet with Mohammed Ali and sparred with Henry Cooper.

Rather more notoriously, Fred was a ring leader in the Scots Guards strike, he jumped ship with Gareth Hunt, has a fascinating history with many legendary names in show business including ‘Ollie’ Reed and Richard Burton; he also found himself at the very heart of the revolutionary punk rock scene. He features regularly on the news/documentaries and a two hour documentary has been shown several times recently on 4 and more 4, with audience figures up to 10.4 million (the Lottery gets 3.4 m, X Factor, BGT between 8 – 13m, variously). The book will also include exclusive interviews with some of those close to The Great Train Robbery itself

Tribute to an extraordinary man who died suddenly on 27th April 2007 of heart failure.

Thank you for the best eighteen months of my life. I waited so long for you to come along. Thank you for the love, passion, protection, vulnerability, selflesness, talent, fantastic conversation, wit, laughter and play we shared. You loved so much, including our dancers, and somehow you turned everything we did into a dance. I'll always miss the ever unfolding coincidences, dreams of life from holidays to work together and the special dance you promised on the 28th onwards. I'll remember especially those last extra precious weeks together when God began to make sense for you and all that, that meant. And the thing I have to say, only YOU could have got me to love going to football matches! I can't imagine ever going without you

We blossomed in the twilight days
When love at last did sigh
And life unfolded both it's wings,
As with God you cried.
Your gentlest heart came home to rest
At last in love's own fold.
Behind you left your body's pain
And torments of the soul.
Now you're with the stars at night,
Wild winds, relentless seas.
My love please know I hear your song
And feel you in my tears...Love Always, Nettie X