将动画和触发器定义为可重用资源？

Is there a way to define an animation somewhere in xaml (eg. as a resource) once and then reuse it multiple times? I have a lot of independent brushes across differnt datatemplates that independently need to start the same kind of animation based on a datatrigger. Now since it seems that an animation has to define an Storyboard.TargetName and Storyboard.TargetProperty. This pretty much defeats the purpose of reusability. I would somehow like to declare "use this animation form the resource but apply it to another element this time". Is there a way to define an animation somewhere