The identity of the company as a group of women of color, diverse in race, age, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, but uniformly committed to artistic excellence and social justice, is vital to me and to the success of my choreographic work.

In other words, non-white women. Defined in the same "touch of the tar brush" way that white segregationists used to define "coloured" not so long ago.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?