Super Bowl Drama! Dancers Call On Headliners To Make Changes Amid Outrage Over UNPAID Halftime Work!
perezhilton.comHundreds of dancers are blowing the whistle on the Super Bowl halftime show’s history of exploiting background performers!
Over the weekend, this year’s Pepsi halftime show choreographer Fatima Robinson revealed on Instagram she was “happy to be hiring 115 paid dancers for the Super Bowl this year…..the most ever hired” to dance alongside the featured artists onstage.
But the celebratory post inadvertently sparked a flash mob of outrage when critics pointed out there would still be hundreds of other dancers, many of whom have years of experience, who would also be working it on the field for free!
Amid the drama, several famous dancers — including Heather Morris and Alyson Stoner — took to social media to voice their support for the field crew. Related: Janet Jackson Says The Infamous 2004 Justin Timberlake Super Bowl Incident Is Still ‘Tough’ To Talk About Days later, Page Six published screenshots of alleged requests from several recruiters and LA’s Bloc Talent Agency that went out to dancers asking for “pre-dominantly African American movers” to “volunteer” for halftime.
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