Blazer Dancers to perform at Occupy Portland cleanout
The Blazer Dancers announced this morning that they will perform tomorrow night at the police roundup of Occupy campers from Lownsdale and Chapman Squares in downtown Portland.
A spokesperson for the Trail Blazers said the 16-member dance and cheerleading squad will line the demonstration site on the Third and Fourth Avenue sides beginning at the city's announced eviction deadline of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, and run into the parks to showcase their routines during lulls in the arrests.
The dancers will be making their first public appearance of the season, having been sidelined by the league-wide labor dispute that includes the Blazers players and the team. The appearance is part of the Trail Blazers community service program, and it will be sponsored in part by the league's NBA Cares initiative.
"We're dying to get started in a new season," said Ashley, one of the dancers. "With all the sitting around we have been doing, some of the girls are afraid they're getting a little rusty."
Team members have been rehearsing various routines at a hotel in Tigard in preparation for Saturday night's appearance. Insiders report that one of the numbers is a tribute to fallen rap star Heavy D. "They want to do the Heavy stuff before everybody forgets who he was," a source said.
The Blazers' co-ed acrobatic stunt team is barred by league rules from performing during the lockout.
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Comments (26)
Is it OK to duct tape the sidewalk to reserve a spot to watch the mayhem.
I really think it may be better than going to the zoo. With so many aminals, minerals and vegetables involved it has to be.
Posted by Ben | November 11, 2011 8:39 AM
I've been trying to occupy a Blazer Dancer for years...
Posted by Larry Legend | November 11, 2011 8:53 AM
That is brilliant.
Posted by Amadeus | November 11, 2011 9:10 AM
The circus has truly come to town. Get your popcorn ready.
Posted by Brendan | November 11, 2011 9:24 AM
Will the T-shirt Cannon be there too?
Posted by Cass | November 11, 2011 9:36 AM
Was your source for this story "The Onion?"
Posted by Peter Apanel | November 11, 2011 9:36 AM
I need a new keyboard...
Posted by Mike (one of the many) | November 11, 2011 9:40 AM
Won't all that perfume stink up the place?
:)
Posted by Ben | November 11, 2011 9:44 AM
Push em back, push em back... waaaaay BACK!
Will Sam show up in his saddle shoes and sweater with megaphone? Lots of cop jocks he can sniff...
Posted by BuddyGlass | November 11, 2011 9:46 AM
The perfume is part of the performance, so the police won't have to wear their gas masks till later on when they start the arrests and have to be very close to the OWS folks.
Will the girls be riding the Cavalia horses nude too? Oh, wait...that is for the summer eviction, it is too chilly now.
Posted by Portland Native | November 11, 2011 10:06 AM
Will Paul Allen do a walk on?
Posted by Evergreen Libertarian | November 11, 2011 10:25 AM
That made my morning.
Seriously, a cheer team would make it so Portlandia "bird on it!" Think of the media coverage? I would guarantee nation front page reports!
How about the gay men's chorus?
Posted by dman | November 11, 2011 10:46 AM
And Imago! ....so many appendages to handcuff! Or none at all!
Posted by Portland Native | November 11, 2011 11:05 AM
Will the Rose Featival Princeses be there too?
Posted by Portland Native | November 11, 2011 11:07 AM
Great satire.
Posted by Larry Norton | November 11, 2011 11:13 AM
Will Storm Large sing the National Anthem?
Posted by BobM | November 11, 2011 11:53 AM
An alert reader points out that the Dancers actually were working at this worthy event yesterday.
Posted by Jack Bog | November 11, 2011 12:14 PM
Will they be sharing 50 percent of the tear gas? Or will it be 52 percent?
Posted by Newleaf | November 11, 2011 12:45 PM
Ah the irony! Blazer dancers representing one of the "one percent" wealthiest in America (Paul Allen) giving a dance cheer send off to the Occupy Portland folks at the park. How insulting can you get? Maybe they will hand out gift bags.
Posted by Michael Whitmore | November 11, 2011 12:58 PM
Ah the irony!
The 1% wealthiest Blazer former players and others dishing up canned green beans to the less fortunate, and not even on the actual day of Thanksgiving so as to not interfere with the 1% 's celebration.
The disconnect boggles the mind.
Posted by Portland Native | November 11, 2011 1:59 PM
How nice of the Blazers to treat people for fleas and ticks at the Harvest Dinner. That is a service that would also be very much appreciated at the Occupy camp.
Posted by reader | November 11, 2011 2:31 PM
...and add a huge Greek Chorus in the background -- with pikers (City Hall has no shortage of pikers) -- singing Oh Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana! Hell, for that and the Blazer Dancers I'll show up with a broom and shovel and help clean up the mess.
Hmmm...Or some Wagner. With Randy as Brunnhilde. And a bird perched on the tip of his sword.
Posted by Old Zeb | November 11, 2011 5:12 PM
Flight of the Valkeries
Posted by pdxmick | November 11, 2011 10:48 PM
WTF, Which To Follow?
Posted by Tenskwatawa | November 12, 2011 11:41 AM
Still time to open a delousing station for the Blazer Dancers once they're done.
Posted by Tom | November 12, 2011 12:44 PM
I think the Blazer Dancers will need a "sheep dip" trough after their Animal Farm experience.
Posted by lw | November 12, 2011 3:14 PM