Dance Europe, Israel
Editors Letters || Monday, 20 March, 2006
I am enclosing a letter I wrote to the editor of Dance Europe magazine. It was written in response to your article regarding their policy on companies from Israel. Thank you for reporting on this subject.
'To whom it may concern:
Your magazine's policy regarding companies from Israel is abhorrent. Irrespective of the policies of the Israeli government (of which I am often morally opposed) art remains a vehicle for transpersonal communication.
To assume that this censorship is a productive means of achieving valuable results regarding this sensitive issue only ensures that your magazine undermines the very values you hope to inculcate. Some of the products of Israel's dance has vitality that is agreed upon by many serious critics. It seems to this reader that to expurgate artists thus is to indulge in a societal ill no less grievous and one that is a potential catalyst for the very same trespasses you protest.'
Michael Salonius
New York, USA
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