“The Best New Good Thing”
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE | 2007

About the Show

Seventeen Whoop Dee Doo artists worked in residency at the Bemis Center for ten days in collaboration with youth from Girls, Inc of Omaha, Nebraska and local performers and community groups.  This show was one of our first major collaborations between community members when a  local tap group, the Dancing Grannies, worked with the tap-dancing percussionist from the Omaha-based Tilly and the Wall to create new dance and choreography to accompany Tilly’s new song Alligator Skin. The live footage from this show was used as the bands official music video for the song.

Whoop Dee Doo Artists

Matt Roche
Jaimie Warren
Julie Potratz
Leone Anne Reeves
Robert Chase Heishman
Chase Williams
Jon Peck
Erica Peterson
Shannon Stubbs
Michael Boles
Zach Van Benthusen
Lynus Young
Ashley Miller
Ascot Smith
Brendon Meara
Seth Johnson

Curation

Hesse McGraw

Youth Group

Girls, Inc.

Performers

The Angels of Faith
The Salem Stepping Saints
Phyllis Dunne and the mountain dulcimer
The Dancing Grannies
The Omaha Pug Club
Tilly and the Wall
African Cultural Connection
Pop rocks challenge
Carnal Torpor
Red Rum

Links

Girls Inc.
Bemis Center