Perennial hindu whinger Rajan Zed has called on Houston Ballet to cancel the ballet La Bayadère. Zed said in a statement saying that Houston Ballet, nation's fifth largest ballet company which claimed to be an "anti-racist organization",
should not be in the business of callously promoting appropriation of traditions, elements and concepts of "others"; and ridiculing entire communities. Zed said that this deeply problematic ballet was just a blatant belittling of a rich
civilization and exhibited 19th-century orientalist attitudes. He urged non-profit Houston Ballet to apologize for such an inappropriate selection. Zed also urged Houston Ballet Trustees Chair S. Shawn Stephens, Executive Director James Nelson and
Artistic Director Stanton Welch to re-evaluate its systems and procedures so that such an inappropriate stuff did not slip through in the future. In addition, all Houston Ballet employees should be sent for cultural sensitivity training.
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