Posted on 12/27/2016 1:28:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Last week, it was announced that the Rockettes would be performing at Donald Trump's inauguration, with the group's unionthe American Guild of Variety Artistsmandating the dancers show up to the gig or lose their jobs. After considerable public outcry, Rockettes' management claimed they would not be required to smile and dance at America's gateway to Gozer after allbut in an interview with Marie Claire, one Rockette says she and her fellow dancers are still terrified that there will be more fallout.
The Rockette, who wished to remain anonymous, told Marie Claire that though many of the women who declined to dance for Trump are freelancers, three full time dancers have declined to sign up for the inauguration performance, and at least one is concerned she might not be able to keep her position. "It will be interesting to see who doesn't get their job back," she told the magazine. "But do you really want to work for a company that supports this? I just don't know. It's become a moral issue at this point."
She also said the Rockettes are split over the performance. "There is a divide in the company now, which saddens me most," she said. "The majority of us said no immediately. Then there's the percentage that said yes, for whatever reasonwhether it's because they're young and uninformed, or because they want the money, or because they think it's an opportunity to move up in the company when other people turn it down." She also noted that no women of color signed up to dance. "It's almost worse to have 18 pretty white girls behind this man who supports so many hate groups," she said. "They're going to be branded in history as one of those women," she said. "How's it going to look?"
She told Marie Claire that news of the Rockettes was sprung on them (she found out via text messages from friends), and that one dancer broke down in tears in front of her. "She felt she was being forced to perform for this monster," she said. She noted that not wanting to perform for Trump was "not a Republican or Democrat issuethis is a women's rights issue," and about "racism and sexism."
"It's the ensemble. It's the people in our wardrobe and hair department, some of whom are transgender," she says. "These are our friends and our family, who we've worked with for years. It's a basic human-rights issue. We have immigrants in the show. I feel like dancing for Trump would be disrespecting the men and women who work with us, the people we care about."
I’m surprised Trump still wants them.
There have been a lot of great alt-inauguration suggestions here in FR.
I wish Trump read FR.
This bimbo wants to leverage her position with the Rockettes when it is not her’s to leverage. That spot is there regardless of who dances. If the other women do not want to perform then they shouldn’t. Replacements will be plentiful. Yes you may end up loosing your position if you do not perform. I am sure many people were in that same position when they worked over the holidays.
She is in for a surprise when she starts to become loose in the skin.
Fishbein
Exactly! Those offended by The Rockettes should boycott their shows.
And yet Democrats who hate Trump are threatening to riot and stop the inauguration by force on January 20th. I read that many performers who were originally contacted declined as they feared for their lives from attacks by Radicalized Left Wingers who have said they want to kill Trump at the Inauguration. And compound that with ISIS claiming ti will attack Trump in that day also.
So, one has to think, are ISIS and Democrats working together to stop the inauguration?
Take your drama elsewhere. In the grand scheme of things,you will not be missed.
If they feel so strongly about it they should resign in protest. Maybe move out of the country...?
History will march on strongly without being distracted by thIS FaKE nEWS.
Imagine the uproar in the msm/fake news if anyone refused to perform at hussein's immaculation.
Any male rockettes?
I think the Rockettes should be uninvited and then let them accept the consequences.
There is no rule that dictates attendance at any performance of the Rockettes. We need to start putting our money where our beliefs reside. Choke off the liberal entertainment industry!.
No bigger racist hate group in America than the Democrat Party.
They can carry that title with honor! As I, a deplorable!
That's helpful.
Why is she still employed? I’d have fired her in a New York minute.
Trump is a monster?
So is Hillary. A repeated defender of rapists, a woman who lashes out at women (”nuts and sluts”). A woman who lied to the parents of a dead ambassador (and the nation) and then when confronted on it said that the family lied about what she’d told them (she told her own daughter the truth from the get go).
How many of the Rockettes dancers are “Transgenders” and shouldn’t they belong to the Cockettes out on the West coast?
BUT THEY WOULD HAVE NO TROUBLE AT ALL PERFORMING IN FRONT OF BILL CLINTON..................
Dancing for the inaugural or not, I really could care less about the rockettes.
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