TMZ has learned that dancers working on Beyonce's latest videos are being low-balled on their salaries in order to make the videos on the cheap.
Sources tell TMZ that the music diva is shooting several music videos in L.A. this week, which we're told she is financing, not her label. Sources also say Beyonce's choreographer, Frank Gatson, has refused to work with any of the dancers' agents on this job.
We're told that by eliminating the middleman and dealing directly with the dancers, Beyonce can pay them below standard wages. Industry contacts say this practice is highly irregular for an artist of Beyonce's stature, and it undermines the dance industry as a whole. TMZ has learned that in order to maintain good working relationships, the production company for the project , RSA Films, has recently agreed to pay agency fees for some of the dancers.
Usually, a dancer cast in an A-list artist's video can earn around $3000 for two rehearsal days and two shoot-days of work. Without agents fighting for their rights, the dancers on Beyonce's latest videos will earn less.
While some dancers have boycotted the high-profile gig, others, willing to go around their agents, have been flown to L.A. and put up at hotels to work for the lower rates -- just to say they danced for a megastar like Beyonce.
Since music videos are not covered under union rules, Beyonce's camp is not violating regulations, but they are not in sync with Dancers' Alliance, an organization created by dancers to standardize non-union work.
Calls to Beyonce's reps were not returned. Frank Gatson's rep had no comment.
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Beyonce's pa is a bitchdog. He did not raise his bitch right. He does not like the successes of others.
What has happened to Kelly, Michele, Letoya and Jenifer Hudson. Do they have a fair chance of succeeding as the less talented Bitchonce? STOP KEEPING DOWN OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN. REMEMBER U R A FATHER, TOO.
people cheap is cheap no matter who you are, its just sad that is someone that can afford to pay the dancer the rigth wages.
THIS GIRL IS A JOKE. BEYOUNCE FOR ALL THE MONEY YOU MAKE, YOU REALLY MESS OVER YOUR BACK UP DANCERS. YOU KNOW THEY WOULD TAKE IT OR LOSE THEY SPOT. MAYBE YOUR SAVING ALL YOUR MONEY FOR SOME REAL TALENT, OR MAYBE DADDY SPENT IT ON THE OTHER WOMAN OR JUST MAYBE YOU SPENT IT ON JAY-Z SO HE WON'T LEAVE YOU FOR RHIANNA. SHE MAYBE 18, BUT SHE HAS YOUR NUMBER. I'M PULLING FOR YOU RHIANNA
When I read that Beyonce' was paying her dancers coins and not dollar's, I was heart broken. I really believed that Beyonce' was real and stayed up front about helping out the little people, like her dancers. The money Beyonce is holding back from her dancers could do her some justice by going back to school and trying to master the English language.
Beyonce if you are reading this, It would not hurt you to take a few English courses. Your singing is beautiful, but the way you speak in public is terrible. Go back to school girl! UM is not a word Beyonce.
Why would someone, with as much money as she has.....be cheap?
I guess that is why the rich, stay rich?
She really is a low-life. Can't stand her and glad she wasn't nominated for ANYTHING from Dreamgirls.
These girls need to be quite. They are lucky to be in one of B's video's. I know girls who dance really good who would dance for free to be in one of B's vids. And what's with TMZ and this RACIST sh*t today? First you wanna make the great J-Z as a profiteer of slave monies and now you want to call B a cheap ass!!! Don't go there, no way!
How much do dancers get paid to do a tour with Beyonce and Britney Spears?? That is what I am wondering. Since these are videos and they don't have to get paid a certain amount, then how can they argue this?? Why am I actually interested in this?? Am I still sleeping??
There is nothing racist about this. If she wants
to treat "lesser people" like this, karma will get
her in the end.
I'm just surprised she isn't paying the dancers
with clothing from her tragic line that she calls "designs"
Ever noticed how all these creeps that wear Fur also treat PEOPLE terribly??!!!??
Jennifer Lopez is another people abuser that wears ugly old-lady Fur
#4 you must be on crack.b is a cheap as bitch.why shound anybody do it fof free.why dont u dance your ass off for beyonce.
Really classy, Beyonce! How nice of you to try to screw struggling young performers out of a few dollars.
Sort of sounds like slave labor, doesn't it?
