Old-fashioned economists used to think that this sort of thing was what kept the Invisible Hand waggling lucratively away.

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Her choreography draws from an established vocabulary yes, there are jazz hands, the familiar cabaret-style hand waggling, in "Anything Goes" or ideas she finds by chance.

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The stage on which we women are instructed to play, fingers waggling in our faces, is often so constricting it's a wonder we can move at all.

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There was that gesture with the hands waggling his fingers.

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The first long half of the evening shows off the exuberant talents of the cast who almost murder the audience in a war dance, and then wow it in the hip-waggling betrothal party.

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Dr Neave, however, believes this may simply result from 80% of men being right footed, and so tending to place more weight on their left foot in order to demonstrate leg-waggling prowess with the right one.

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