Houston Ballet was in top form with two early works by Australian wonder and Artistic Director Stanton Welch. Madame Butterfly…
Michael Wade Simpson
Mr. Simpson has a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and worked as an advertising writer in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue a different passion: dance. He danced professionally in New York and Boston before founding a community-based modern dance company, Small City Dance Project, in Newburyport, MA. His fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. He was a teaching fellow at Smith College, where he received his MFA in choreography. While living in the Bay Area for 15 years, he wrote about dance for the San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals. In 2005, he was a NEA Fellow at the Dance Critics Institute, American Dance Festival. For culturevulture.net, he reviews dance, theatre and film. He moved to Santa Fe in October, 2008. He writes for "Pasatiempo," the Arts magazine of the "Santa Fe New Mexican."
Connor Walsh with Barbara Bears. Photo: Amitava Sarkar The title may have been Animal Magnetism, but it was the Ji?í…
The Houston Ballet waltzed (literally) into their 39th season with most bubbly of ballets, The Merry Widow. How better to…
A new wave of contemporary dance is heading from Europe and sweeping America these days instead of the other way…
Emanuel Gat sets dances to works of music loaded with historical baggage, such as Mozart’s Requiem, which accompanies "K626". He…
The Seagull Adapted by Boris Eifman From the play by Anton Chekhov Performed by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg March…
When Madrileños are asked about music in the subway, they’ll mention Native South Americans playing pan pipes or Romanian gypsies…
Merce Cunningham was the perfect person to jump on the IPOD bandwagon. Now his dance company must travel from engagment…
Dance Salad moved into its 12th year with the strongest line-up to date highlighting companies from Russia, Italy, Korea, Canada…
Drop Eric Kupers and Dandelion Dancetheater, CELLspace, San Francisco August 17-September 2, 2007 www.dandeliondancetheater.org An orange tabby cat-in-residence was hanging-out…
David Gordon is one of those choreographers whose work I’d read about for years but never had the chance to…
Deborah Hay Dance Company “Mountain” March 29-31, ODC Theater, San Francisco www.odctheater.org http://www.deborahhay.com/ “I recognize my choreography when I see…
Doug Varone and Dancers Dense Terrain Brooklyn Academy of Music 5/17/07 BAM Doug Varone and Dancers photo: Phil Knott Despite…
Company Ea Sola “Drought and Rain Vol. 2” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco Feb 6-7, 2008 http://www.ybca.org/…