On Monday, Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee decided to pause funding to Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Committee members...
Get a deeper look at the issues at play this election and how they’ll show up on your ballot.Members of the city council’s Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee expressed concern over the company’s firing of dancers.The Dallas Black Dance Theatre and DBDT: Encore! companies dance during the DanceAfrica! performance Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, in front of Moody Performance Hall in Dallas.
The decision came during a meeting of the Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee on Monday. The committee voted 5-2 to approve allocations to 55 Dallas-based nonprofit arts groups, but decided not to allocate roughly $248,000 to the dance company for 2024-25.But the American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents the fired dancers, says the firings happened because of union efforts.
“We’re buying some time there to get findings from the National Labor Relations Board and be able to understand the board of directors’ action at this nonprofit organization,” she said. “Will this be taken seriously or will it be disregarded? I mean, I don’t know. I hope it’s taken seriously.”The National Labor Relations Board is reviewing unfair labor practice charges that the union filed against the dance company in June and August.
Prior to the meeting, committee members reviewed a 348-page report from the Inspector General Division of the City Attorney’s Office, which includes a timeline of events surrounding the firings, as well as evidence including termination letters, the dance company’s handbook and interviews with fired dancers, union representatives and Georgia Scaife, president of the dance company’s board.
Committee chair Paul Ridley said he’s particularly concerned over what he called the dance company’s lack of response to concerns over the firings and their decision to hire replacement dancers.think we need to send a strong message to this organization,” he said. “I am strongly in support of the rights of workers in general and the rights to organize as a labor union. I think that that has been damaged by this instance.
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