Biography           

     Beth Obermeyer used her journalism/telecommunicative arts degree and a lifetime of dance and music to start her own event/public relations company.  TA DA! Special Events produced and promoted many showstoppers, ranging from six that went into the Guinness Book of World Records—to directing statewide, the first Minnesota Festival of the Book.  

     Several became legendary.  Uprisings on city streets gathered great cross-sections of people, pulling together to dance the dance—a leapfrog, mass break dance, bucket brigade—the sweetest peace demonstrations ever, by a choreographer of crowds.   But only a helicopter could capture the 1,801 tap dancers who opened an arts center; or the marching band, 2,512 strong,  that took the town when an 80-year-old Meredith Willson guest-conducted his 76 Trombones. 

     The latter two whirled round the world, Today to UPI and AP; Asahi News, Japan back home to Good Morning America—the tappers even the subject of a serigraph by international artist Hiro Yamagata.  One gained an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, another a coveted Forbes Magazine Business in Arts award.  Her news releases generated national stories, Washington Post to Baltimore Sun, with Beth herself profiled in US Magazine.  She and three events won her city’s Committee for Urban Environment award for improving the quality of life.   

      She also has a dance career, on the faculty of the Minnesota Dance Theatre, the largest center for dance in the Midwest.  She appeared solo, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor; in The Boy Friend opposite Christopher Plummer; and guest-soloed and toured Morton Gould’s The Tap Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra.  She directed “Tap Day,” alongside Gregory Hines, promoting his movie Tap and has written dance reviews, Minneapolis Tribune.  

      Beth has done seminars to business and professional groups, including Public Relations Society of America.  Her journalism degree is from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.  

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