March 23, 2006

Dance Europe Backs Down

Dance Europe, after receiving extensive criticism for its discriminatory policies toward Israeli dancers, dance companies and advertisers, has removed from its website its listing of dance companies, which did not include dance companies from Israel. Dance Europe has also removed links from all of its pages that linked to this listing of dance companies.

For background on this story, you can read my post and access additional resources. Also, Dance Insider ran my initial post with additional reporting and editing by Editor and Publisher Paul Ben-Itzak - I think the end result is much improved. And, Downtown Dancer includes links to the most recent coverage about Dance Europe's policies toward Israeli dancers.

This is the original link to the listing of dance companies. When you click on this link, you will receive a page cannot be found error message (HTTP 404-File Not Found).

This is the link for the list of dance companies on the Dance Europe website as cached by Google on March 16, 2006. You'll notice that there is a link on the navigation bar for "companies" that is no longer on Dance Europe's navigation bars on any of its pages. In addition, if you scroll down the cached Google page, you'll see that there is no listing for Israeli dance companies.

And here are two screen shots of the cached page on Google that shows what I just explained above (click for larger images):

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