María Pizarro, María Gomis and María José Arcas Mouliaá, dancers of a starter girl at Benidorm Fest, They denounce in a public letter the precariousness in the artistic sector after being hired by “an artist” and acting with her in a “television contest.” The young women have shared in a joint publication on Instagram a statement with the objective of “focusing on the practices that are carried out in artistic work environments and that perpetuate precariousness and unfair treatment towards workers” in order to “give visibility and prevent these situations from being repeated. “
“We are three dancers hired to accompany an artist in a television concert consisting of two phases (semifinal and final) and is celebrated outside Madrid,” the dancers have begun, without offering names about it anywhere in the text. The three have recognized being “aware” that what happened “It is not an isolated fact” in its sector And that is why they have decided to “expose it” as affected them.
This complaint has been divided into several sections, in which they have explained what the context was, what happened and its conclusion of what happened. In the first point they have collected The agreed conditions: “A base salary, full availability with permanence in the location during the two weeks that the contest lasts, individual accommodation and diets covered by the organization, exclusively for artists.”
They have also detailed that “the rest of the team would be housed in an Airbnb” and that “in no case” the possibility of an alternate situation to these conditions could occur “. “We have to point out that, from the beginning, On the part of the artist’s team there was not much clarity in terms of high, contracts and paymentsnot a fluid communication, “they continue in their story, although they still decided to” trust. “
The dancers have recognized that during the first week the work environment was “pleasant” and a “personal link among all members” was created. However, the problems arrive on the morning of the performance: “After not being classified for the final, a message comes to us in which we are informed that we have to leave our respective rooms Four days earlier than agreed and return to Madrid in an imminent way and without any alternative. “
Prior to this, they wanted to point out that “The day before the first semifinal” came the artist’s band “as support and friendship” And they stayed in a rented apartment, since they went “completely external to the contest.” “The justification is that ‘we have nothing more to do there’ and that they need our accommodations and diets for the rest of the team, referring to totally foreign economic reasons,” they have continued.
The three asked to speak “the situation in person” since it “was breaking the previously agreed” and the forms were not the “relevant.” The response from the artist and her team to her request was “resounding and forcefully negative.” “The artist tells us that, by their own desire, she has decided that it will be the members of her band who will occupy our respective rooms And they will consume our diets, with the argument that they have to work in their next concert, totally foreign to us and the event itself. “
With what happened, the dancers have urged that “the contractual agreement is breached under an order imposed by the artist and the team” and, therefore, they feel “Used, ninguned and abandoned.” After writing a “formal e-mail” and asking “privately” for several aspects, among which the “high in social security” stand out, they receive no response.
After this explanation, the dancers have lamented that these practices remain common “in the artistic sector and cannot be allowed to” continue to denigrate and precarize the profession in this way. “” A lot of good intentions or certain ideals not They guarantee anything or pay the invoice of absolutely no one […] It is necessary to abandon this idealized vision that builds the profession through illusions, ‘Brilli Brilli’ and Word“They have nuanced.
“The dancers are not ahead of a decoration we are part of the artistic proposal and we deserve to be treated as such. We do not shut up, we do not settle and we are not going to normalize the unacceptable“, They have concluded in their statement, which has been supported and backed by hundreds of people through the comments section.
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