Dancer/Collaborator: MindFluctuations (current work) Collision Course – a.k.a. PIllow Talk Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz Involuntary Encounters Pitfalls: Nose to Cement and Other Tales Told on the Way Down Stone Ring Others Giselle Ruzany was born in New York City and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, from the age 3 … Continue reading Giselle Ruzany
LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge – On View / Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries, 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet HISTORY EXHIBITION – September 23 – October 23 Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, 1972 to 2022. Timeline; Video Displays; Video Wall, Evacuations; Artifacts; Music … Continue reading LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge
2012- Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was invited to perform at a rock party at an extreme and very large dance club on the DC/Maryland border – Nate Bond, Giselle Ruzany, Maida Withers. The sponsors presented very curious events to the audience in breaks (an opera singer hanging upside down above the audience singing opera), … Continue reading Art Soiree – Club Dancing
2010 – May 10, 17, & 24, 2010: Re-Re Voltaire (Cabaret Voltaire) WPA sponsored a site event on H Street in celebration of their 35th Anniversary that take place in a vacant lot next to Gallery O/H at 1354 H Street NE, WDC. These event were to celebrate their 35th anniversary and also recognize the … Continue reading Re-Re Voltaire – WPA 35th Anniversary – H Street Revitalization
TACIT ENGAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE A joint conference by the ‘Re-‘ Interdisciplinary Network, CRASSH (Center for Research in the arts, Social Services & Humanities and AI (Artificial Intelligence) & Society Journal CAMBRIDGE, UK June 26-28, 2019 MINDFLUCTUATIONS Maida Withers “CONSIDERATION OF A GROUNDBREAKING DANCE SPECTACLE EXPLORING NEURAL CONNECTIONS” MINDFLUCTUATIONS, a bold interactive virtual journey … Continue reading MindFluctuations-AI-performance-talk/
No More Ping Pong Balls Performance Intervieux: Maida on Erica The life of Erica Rebollar, birthday girl and celebrant, exposed through an unclassified, no boundaries interview setup configured in a unexpected disorganization by dance artist friend and provocateur, Maida Withers. Please throw your ping pong ball if you perceive Erica is telling an UNTRUTH or a … Continue reading No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica
ICEBERGS National Building Museum Washington, DC presents GLACIAL DRIFT PREMIERE / 2016 Cool Evening with ICEBERGS Dance, Music, and Poetry in the Surreal Underwater-World of ICEBERGS GLACIAL DRIFT was one of National Building Museum’s Block Party Late Nights that is part of its big summer installation programming for ICEBERGS designed by James Corner Field Operations … Continue reading ICEBERGS: Glacial Drift
Video, Kennedy Center Archives: http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M6136&type=A December 8, 2014 – Chain of Events …sheer imaginative fallout of movement Presented by Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Date/Time: December 8, 2014 at 6:00 to 6:50 pm, FREE Location: Kennedy Center Theatre Lab; 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC Tickets: FREE Contact: Jane Rabinovitz; JKRabinovitz@Kennedy-Center.org; 202-416-8044 Billy Andrews; dcc@maidadance.com; 202-994-0739 Maida Withers … Continue reading Chain of Events
2014 – In celebration of Maida Withers’ Dance Company’s 40th anniversary, Art Whino is throwing a Masquerade Ball full of mystery and surprise. This full sensory experience will combine performance art with experimental dance, live music, and a silent art auction where artist will paint Masquerade masks the audience will wear in this moving art … Continue reading MASQUERADE Ball: Blind Whino (DCCo 40th Anniversary)
MWDCCo performed an improvised version of Collision Course for the Gala Opening of the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in their renovated gallery at 1632 U Street, NW, Washington, DC. Dancers Nate Bond, Tzveta Kassabova, Anthony Gongora, and Giselle Ruzany performed with Steve Hilmy, composer/musician. Rehearsal Photos in StudioCollage by Anthony Gongora