Ericka Peterson, known professionally as Wildgirl, is an artist and former
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DJ. Through the late 1980s and early '90s, her Saturday night radio show ''Wildgirl's Rockin' Racing'' and her ''Wildgirl's Go-Go-Rama'' live shows at the Coney Island Sideshow are credited with giving birth to the go-go and burlesque revivals.
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In the mid-1980s, she began performing under the name "Wildgirl", and in 1986 also assisted in the reopening of the Coney Island sideshow, performing for a season as Serpentina, snake handler and contortionist. In 1987 she produced the first ''Wildgirl's Go-Go-Rama'' at the Sideshow by the Seashore.
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In 1996, filmmakers Addison Cook and Annie Ballard produced ''Wildgirl's Go-Go-Rama'', a documentary on the last Coney Island show, which won several awards, including best documentary at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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American neo-burlesque performers
Women in New York City
20th-century American dancers
American radio DJs
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