All posts tagged "Dorrance Dance"

There’s a reason MAGA conservatives were unable to articulate what they hated about First Lady Jill Biden’s White House holiday show, argues Salon’s Amanda Marcotte.

“It's plain bigotry,” writes Marcotte. “The first smiling face we see in the video is a Black woman. Throughout the video, many of the dancers read as people of color and queer people. Plus, the music is jazz, not classical. We are apparently at that point in fascist development where they reject syncopated rhythms as decadent and emasculating.”

Marcotte came to the defense Monday of the Dorrance Dance company’s tap dance to a jazz rendition from "The Nutcracker Suite.” ...