Michael Wade Simpson is editor of culturevulture.net. He writes about the performing arts for the Santa Fe New Mexican. Previously, he reviewed dance for the "San Francisco Chronicle." MFA dance, Smith College. Founder, "Small City Dance Project," Newburyport, Massachusetts.
By Michael Wade Simpson Changing hoods is not always easy for an urban dance school. Sherese Campbell, whose company, City Dance, will present a concert, “Random Acts” on Saturday, April 26, at their new studio theater, says that when she moved her school not long ago from a home a block from Rice University to […]
Elephant in the Black Box Makes Their US Debut at Dance Salad A Conversation with Jean Philippe Dury By Michael Wade Simpson Jean-Philippe Dury began his career in the corps of the Paris Opera Ballet, and then moved to Spain as a principal dancer with Nacho Duato’s, Compañía Nacional de Danza de España. His own […]
Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq: War, terrorism, and the atrocities committed daily by human beings against each other have become so widespread that it is almost impossible to take in. World War II seems a million years ago. Choreographer Carolyn Dorfman was raised by Holocaust survivors. Her mother and aunt escaped annihilation in a prison camp […]
Two to Watch: Laura Edson and Sidra Bell Create New Works for The Houston Met’s 2|2 By Michael Wade Simpson Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s artistic director, Marlana Doyle, clearly has a mission in bringing freelance choreographersfrom all over the US to work with her dancers. “The diversity of dances creates more versatile dancers, and the […]
Uptown Dance Centre is a hothouse where dance flourishes on many levels. How could the dancers not grow wildly in an environment where there are kindergartners sharing studios with pros, and the pre-professional company trains for 30 hours, 6 days a week? Beth Gulledge-Brown, who opened the studio after dancing in New York and South […]
Care to Dance? Houston Brazilian Festival Returns to Jones Plaza You don’t have to wait for anyone to ask you to dance in Brazil, so why should you have to wait at Jones Plaza, the site of the Houston Brazilian Festival, which runs from 1 to 10pm on Sunday, September 2? Four different bands […]
There’s a happily revolving door at Jacob’s Pillow every summer, as dancers and dance companies come and go and audiences have the chance to sample from hundreds of performances. The dance festival in Western Massachusetts, has now been running for 80 years, since Ted Shawn freed himself from a vaudevillian past, (and a dancer wife, […]
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