Book by Douglas Carter Beane Adapted from the Original Screenplay “The Band Wagon” by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Directed…
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."
You don’t have to be George Bush to realize that the fear factor has ratcheted up alarmingly since 9/11. A…
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley February 28-March 4, 2007 http://www.alvinailey.org/ Program A:…
Armitage Gone! Dance Connoisseurs of Chaos The Joyce Theater Jan 22-27, 2008 http://www.joyce.org/ http://www.armitagegonedance.org/ Frances Chiaverini and Matthew Branham. Photo:…
Big Dance Theater “The Other Here” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts April 27, 2007 http://www.bigdancetheater.org/ http://www.yerbabuenaarts.org/ Big Dance Theater…
Reprinted from CV writer Susan Yung’s new blog for WNET: New York PBS http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/arts/cedar-lake-the-copier Choreographer Jill Johnson Original Music Davide…
There is no question that Nora Chipaumire is a stunning dancer. Her control of limbs and force, her superhuman reach…
Dance is supposed to touch the deep parts of our being. With Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company (CDDC) doing the dancing…
Choregraphy: Keith Hennessy Mondavi Studio Theatre Davis, CA February 15-25, 2007 www.circozero.org A crowd of college students and parents didn’t…
San Francisco Performances Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Feb 20-24, 2008 “Castrati” “Rassemblement” “White Darkness” http://www.performances.org/ dance company website…
Calligraphy and choreography share a canvas in Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s final chapter of Cursive: A Trilogy, with choreography by…
Compañía Nacional De Danza 2 Choreographer and Artistic Director Nacho Duato A Dance at the Music Center Production Ahmanson Theatre,…
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…