The Manhattan-based dance company featured in the annual White House Christmas video Thursday endorses discredited “anti-racist” activists and radical left-wing causes, including prison abolition and defunding law enforcement.
First lady Jill Biden shared Dorrance Dance’s “playful rendition of The Nutcracker Suite” on Thursday X, which was widely criticized for its “Hunger Games” and “A Clockwork Orange” aesthetic.
While the tap dance routine seemed apolitical, the dance group’s website is anything but: it promotes far-left policies that are even out of step with the Biden administration.
“I am a white tap dancer with Black cultural ancestry in a society that privileges white people and whiteness,” writes Michelle Dorrance, the company’s founder, in a note on the company’s website titled “Why Anti-Racism Work It’s important to me.”
“I am easy to assimilate for white audiences who want to access and experience elements of black culture. My whiteness is the reason you may have heard of me before two of my inspirations,” she adds, referencing two contemporary black tap dancers, Ayodele Casel and Dormeshia.
“It is imperative for me, and for those who look like me, to recognize this. “It is imperative that we fight against the racist norms that have defined American culture since its inception.”
First lady Jill Biden unveiled the White House Christmas video on Thursday. ZUMAPRESS.com
The comprehensive “anti-racism” section of Dorrance Dance’s website includes links to numerous far-left organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and INCITE! Women of color against violence: this last group proclaims the anti-Semitic slogan: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” on their website.
Dorrance Dance encourages visitors to “get involved in abolition work” by linking to essays titled “What is Prison Abolition?” and “How I Became a Police Abolitionist.”
The abolitionist movement views immigration detention centers, city and county jails, and state and federal prisons as “social evils” that “must be eradicated.”
The website also directs users to organizations promoting so-called “defund the police” movements in New York, San Diego, Minneapolis and Dallas.
There are links to several petitions, including one that reads: “DEFUND AND REDISTRIBUTE NYPD FUNDS BY $500 MILLION,” sponsored by the New York City Wealth Distribution Project.
It is not clear what the cost of the action was to taxpayers.
Another petition demands that Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Justice Department “release all Black people incarcerated on marijuana charges,” something the president Biden has notably refused.
In the “Educate Yourself” section of the site, Dorrance Dance promotes the New York Times’ debunked “1619 Project,” which falsely claims that the American Revolution was fought largely to preserve slavery.
“White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram .
DiAngelo promotes the theory that all white Americans are racists and products of white supremacy. She was once criticized as the “PT Barnum of American race relations” by columnist Maureen Callahan, who noted that DiAngelo collects tens of thousands of dollars annually from corporations that hire her for diversity training.
The dance company’s website features an entire section on “anti-racism,” with links to various petitions and causes to “defund the police.” Dorrance Dance
A former employee of Boston University’s Kendi Center for Antiracism Research accused the organization earlier this year of mismanaging more than $40 million in funding and conducting little research compared to the size of the grants it received. center. Boston University later said it found “no problems” with Kendi’s management of the center.
It’s unclear if taxpayer money was used to pay Dorrance Dance for the White House Christmas video routine.
The White House and Dorrance Dance did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
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