Los Angeles Ballet UCLA Freud Playhouse May 24 & 25, 2007 Alex Theatre, Glendale May 26, 2007 Redondo Beach Performing…
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."
LeeSaar The Company 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival February 15, 2007 Festival Website What’s a stranded dance critic (with…
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Ferocious Beauty: Genome Montclair State University Montclair, NJ April 10–13, 2008 lwebsite Photo: Kevin Kennefick What…
Lines Ballet Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco “Irregular Pearl”, “Rasa”, World Premieres November 2-4, 7-11, 2007 http://www.linesballet.org…
Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet in performance with the Shaolin Monks “Long River High Sky” April 13-22, Yerba Buena Center for…
A new wave of contemporary dance is heading from Europe and sweeping America these days instead of the other way…
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Lincoln Center Theatre, NYC By Christopher Shinn Directed by James MacDonald Feb 15-April 29, 2007 website Dying City, the latest…
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59E59 Theaters, Primary Stage, New York 2/13-3/4, 2007 Book & Lyrics by Christopher Durang Music by Peter Melnick http://www.59e59.org/ You…
Conchita (Laura Kaldis) and Juan Julian (Ilich Guardiola). Photo by Doug Killgore. Never underestimate the power of Tolstoy. Read Tolstoy…
New World Stages, New York, NY Opened March 5, 2007 By Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey Directed by Rick Lombardo…