Dancer born with one hand makes Radio City Rockettes history
Source: AP
NEW YORK (AP) — A dancer born with one hand is the first person with a visible disability ever hired by New York’s famed Radio City Rockettes.
“I don’t want to be known as the dancer who has one hand, and not because that’s a bad thing,” Sydney Mesher, who joined the Rockettes this season, told Newsday. “But because I’ve worked very hard to be where I am.”
Mesher, 22, is missing a left hand because of symbrachydactyly, a rare congenital condition.
The Pace University graduate from Portland, Oregon, was hired by the Rockettes after her fourth audition. She said she has been “mesmerized” by the troupe, which dates to 1925, ever since first seeing them on TV in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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good for her. 
and good for her to go for what she wanted!! 
(Well...not the Rockettes!) 
the first black Rockette was in 1988 because prior to that, they were not allowed. OMFG. Up until NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT ladies of color were not allowed to be Rockettes. 
