Dance is supposed to touch the deep parts of our being. With Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company (CDDC) doing the dancing…
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."
There is no question that Nora Chipaumire is a stunning dancer. Her control of limbs and force, her superhuman reach…
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…
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…
The Russians long have claimed sovereignty in the realm of the ballet. Even before Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Pavlova and Fokine there…
Faustin Liyekula Festival of Lies Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum November 8-10, 2007 http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3131 Leaving the theatre, I…
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…
Company Ea Sola “Drought and Rain Vol. 2” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco Feb 6-7, 2008 http://www.ybca.org/…
Doug Varone and Dancers Dense Terrain Brooklyn Academy of Music 5/17/07 BAM Doug Varone and Dancers photo: Phil Knott Despite…
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…
David Gordon is one of those choreographers whose work I’d read about for years but never had the chance to…