A very hip, Tel Aviv-based modern dance company (pictured above) I recently profiled returned from Manhattan's Alvin Ailey Theater last week and they're off to performances in Cuba and North America this Spring. I figure they're on the up & up. So I pick up the phone to the aforementioned London dance magazine editor to pitch the story.

The head of advertising answers and immediately launches into a quiet yet resolute political diatribe upon hearing where the company is based. I'm thinking: WTF? Why is a dance magazine guy talking politics to me? And never mind my interjections on artistic director Sally-Anne's behalf...that she broke away from apartheid South Africa, that her most recent creation Borders expresses boundary breakdowns both personal and political ....

He tells me that because of the occupation the magazine doesn't run stories on dance companies based in Israel. He also assures that he is in no way, shape or form racist because he's a Sikh from Northern India...