One of the final humiliations Marie Antoinette suffered, after languishing in a filthy prison cell, waiting for her execution, was…
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."
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In addition to raising funds, booking engagements, mothering dancers and generally running a ballet company, another of the important hats…
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Voices of a Summer Night Santa Fe Opera, in repertory through Aug. 25, 2012:“Arabella” by Richard Strauss“King Roger” by Karol…
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Joseph Watson, Emily Proctor and William Cannon in “Stamping Ground”Photo by Rosalie O’Connor Sweet Memory: ‘Kiss Me Goodnight’ Aspen Santa…
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The Desert Chorale rehearses at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe.Photo courtesy of the Desert Chorale A Chorale Blooms in…
After Ghostcatching A digital reimagining of a 1999 Bill T. Jones installation piece Film by The OpenEnded Group Choreography and…
Members of Los Pleneros de la 21 in performance Los Pleneros de la 21: Making Music That Makes You Move…