DD12 is in competitive dance. Usually I come back from dance competions complaining about the suggestive/lewd/vulgar moves a lot of the (other)companies do, even with the little girls. But now I've seen it all! Do you know that song "Let's Get it Started"? (They play it on Radio Disney all the time.) Well, the group that recorded it also recorded an un-PC/offensive version called "Let's Get Retarded." Well, at dance competion yesterday, a group actually danced to the "Let's Get Retarded" version. Each dancer's costume had something "wrong" with it - such as a ballerina in a pink tutu and big black kneepads. They were really all pretending to be "retarded." It was SO offensive. One of the families in our company has a mentally challenged daughter. I can only hope the mom was down in the dressing room while this number was going on. (Fortunately, our girls were all out in the lobby practicing at the time.)
It makes me wonder if the companies that put on these dance competitions have any standards or rules at all, as far as what the companies perform to. Could a group of white kids put on black face and do a minstrel number? Could they dance to gansta rap songs about killing or raping women?
I really think I need to write to the company and pose that question. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone make fun of mentally challenged people...then I see it at a dance competion in Ft. Worth Texas in 2005!
It makes me wonder if the companies that put on these dance competitions have any standards or rules at all, as far as what the companies perform to. Could a group of white kids put on black face and do a minstrel number? Could they dance to gansta rap songs about killing or raping women?
I really think I need to write to the company and pose that question. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone make fun of mentally challenged people...then I see it at a dance competion in Ft. Worth Texas in 2005!