Beijing Dance Academy The Butterfly LoversAhmanson Theatre, Los AngelesOn Tour to San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland & SeattleFebruary, 2010http://www.butterflyloversdance.com/
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."
Lost in Yonkers Old Globe Theater, San DiegoJanuary 23 to February 28, 20010http://www.theoldglobe.org/ Set in the early days of World…
San Francisco Ballet Programs 2 & 3, 2010http://www.sfballet.org/ Program 2February 14, 2010Opus 19/The DreamerChoreographer: Jerome RobbinsMusic: Sergei Prokofiev Ghosts, a…
Turn of the Screw Benjamin BrittenHouston Grand OperaJanuary 29, 2010 www.houstongrandopera.org Andrew Kennedy (Quint) and Michael Kepler Meo (Miles). Photo…
Tosca by Giacomo PucciniHouston Grand OperaJanuary 23, 2010Houston, TXwww.houstongrandopera.org Patricia Racette (Tosca) and Alexey Dolgov (Cavaradossi) in HGO’s new production…
A Single Man (2009) Director: Tom FordScreenplay: Tom FordNovel: Christopher IsherwoodColin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Houlot, Matthew Goodehttp://www.asingleman-movie.com/#/home A Single…
Whisper House World PremiereMusic and Lyrics by Duncan SheikBook and Lyrics by Kyle JarrowThe Old Globe San DiegoJanuary 13-February 21,…
Swan Lake (San Francisco Ballet Program 1, 2010) Ballet in four acts and a prologueMusic by Peter Ilyich TchaikovskyChoreography by…
San Francisco Ballet Opening Night Gala (2010) Silver Celebration—Honoring Helgi Tomasson’s 25 Years as Artistic DirectorMixed bill from the repertoryWar…
Replica Jonah Bokaer, Daniel Arsham and Judith Sánchez RuízThe New MuseumNew York, New YorkDecember 10, 2009http://www.newmuseum.org/events/388http://www.jonahbokaer.net/ Photo: Michael Hart Space…
The Whirling Dervishes Palace of Fine Arts TheatreSan Francisco, CAFriday 11 December 2009 www.ciis.eduwww.hayatidedi.org A quick look at the books…
Brazil (1985) a film by Terry GillamCriterion Collection DVD http://www.criterion.com/films/211 When I set out to review *The Criterion Collection*’s…
Aurelia’s Oratorio U.S. tourConceived and directed by Victoria Thierree ChaplinStarring Aurelia ThierreeWith Jaime MartinezBerkeley Repertory TheatreDecember 4-January 24, 2009-10www.berkeleyrep.org Photo:…