just posting what what Rosie did to warrant her treatment (resulting in the company then dissolving and all dancers losing their jobs…. because kindness obvs)
During one warm-up session she asked the male dancers to perform “boy jumps” and the females to do “girl jumps”, referring to specific classical ballet steps. At the coffee break she says the non-binary dancer who was cast in the female part complained that in doing this Kay had misgendered them. Kay says she apologised and said that ballet can be a gendered business, that she herself liked to “do the boy jumps because that fits better with my physicality”.
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The evening passed well at first. But booze flowed, everyone got “lairy and loud”. This is when Kay told them how she was working with an LGBT book club and several trans friends to create Orlando. She explained the plot (none had read the book). Then talk turned more broadly to the difference between sex and gender.
Kay asked them to define non-binary. At that she says several male dancers shouted that she was a bigot and a terf.
When the company reconvened, the non-binary dancer in the female part had quit (an older dancer had to learn the part in two days) and had filed a further complaint about the party, saying Kay’s use of the words “penis” and “vagina” amounted to sexual harassment.
So…. In a dance that was Orlando and a fantasy about sex and gender, a choreographer cannot use anatomically correct terms, while not being allowed to refer to sexed dance moves or to explain her interpretation of the theme of the dance she is putting on.
A ‘senior’ dancer was one of just two people who complained and caused the owner and choreographer to be fired from her business, not just ‘her job’.
No. There must be more to this story if that dancer’s mum is turning up here and telling everyone that dancer is lovely, and so kind. Maybe mum, you agree that a woman should be put in that position because they did not validate your child’s beliefs and use your ADULT child’s chosen pronouns.