OK Lucy

Not a fan of the tied top on a little girl.

Rockettes are professional dancers and are treated as such. They belong to a union and receive a negotiated salary. Their contracts are seasonal, and they earn around $40K for the September-January season but get benefits year round. In the very competitive NYC dance market, that is a good deal. They can teach or do gig work off season and still have benefits. Contrast that with NFL dancers in general, who had to sue to get the teams to offer anything but token pay to their dancers, and it’s still very low. Does anyone know if DCC get benefits? If they do it is certainly not year round. The difference might help to explain the difference in number of applicants applying. The Rockettes are professionals, and the DCC are treated as part time hobbyists even though they are held to professional dance standards.

Kat has had a media presence for many years, since at least 2012 when she was Miss North Carolina in the Miss teen USA pageant. There are many pics of her on the internet, and in most of them she has long, straight hair. In some she has long wavy or soft curly hair, but long and straight seems to be her favorite look. The wigs she currently wears are lighter in color than her hair in past pics, but she isn’t the first woman to lighter her hair color for the DCC. While she may have chosen, or had a lighter hair color chosen for her by TPTB, her current style is one she frequently wears.

I agree, and it’s the same reason Kat made, Kelli think her look helps the team. I agree, especially with Kat. She is beautiful and a contrast to all the blonds. I think that is one reason she and Meredith made it of Julia, who was just one more blond.

If you want to spend $2.99 you can buy the episode on Amazon.

The height requirement for flight attendants varies by airline, but the most common one is between 4’11” and 6’3” so there are few women who would be excluded. For choosing DCC there are conflicting priorities. While Kelli loves long legs, which usually means height, they also need diversity on the team. A team with only tall blonds wouldn’t be as appealing to fans. A higher height requirement would tend to filter out Asian and Latino women who tend to be shorter. Isn’t Lisa Latino? That might be why she is in the team even though her legs are shorter. They want to appeal to that part of their fan base.

Yes, that is one heck of a photoshop.

Well, they are cheerleaders.

The cheerleaders may be required by contract to use team doctors for all health concerns. It’s a common requirement in pro sports. It eliminates the risk of athlete misrepresenting an illness or injury, because they want to keep playing even if they shouldn’t. If they signed a contract like that VK would have been required to see a team doctor about her sudden weight gain of told to by an t am employee.. Because weight is so important, and because a woman under pressure to lose a large amount of weigh in a short time, they are an interest in her doing it in a healthy way. The recent episode with Bridget illustrates that. Jinelle probably had the legal authority to contact the doctor and make sure JK was getting he care required. When she found our she hadn’t, it was her obligation to tell her superiors. It doesn’t matter if she lied VK or not, it was part of her job. It’s a sign of maturity that she did, not a sign of ratting someone out.

So very true. Having a plan for your life is great, and using one job as a way to the next is how those plans get achieved, but you don’t say that in the interview!

I can’t understand why and of the candidates have trouble with the entrance. It’s easy to find videos of it, it’s taught on every season of the show, and the entrance is widely available on YouTube. Why not pull up the videos, learn the moves, and find a field to practice on? If you search, you can find a football field with lines to practice, many towns have youth football fields that are open to the public for practice. If you can’t find one, get a tape measure, some tape, and make ten yard lines in an empty parking lot or grassy park. Many years ago when I was in the high school marching band, I learned to hit the lines every time. Once you know how to adjust the size of the steps to the distance between the lines at all tempos it becomes second nature. I think I could go on a field and still do it. It would seem that any women who really wanted to make the team would teach herself that skill before she even auditioned.

I have long read this forum, but I signed in just to reply to this comment. Courtney Cook has been identified as one of the dancers. Courtney left the DCC because of unspecified personal issues, but it is suspected that she had an eating disorder. She has written publicly about her struggles with healthy eating. The fact that women have to be unnaturally thin to have the DCC look makes eating disorders likely. They are very common in dancers, even forms of dance that do not require the low percent body fat that the DDC does. The DCC carefully monitors weight, but only if it gained, not lost. There are women on the current team that probably have eating disorders, like Gina. If she is altering her public pics to make an already thin body look even thinner, it a flashing red light. If the DCC is doing anything to try and help her we do not see it on the show as we would if she was too heavy. A classic DDC look should not require an eating disorder to achieve it.