Category Archives: Expansion (80s and 90s)
Charmed Particles
Charmed Particles music was performed by John Driscoll at the Washington Project for the Arts Charmed Particles, music, according to John Driscoll, was influential on music for Stall For Charmed Particles there were no rotating loudspeakers "Stall performance is a result of ...
Wesleyan University – Music and Dance Residency
Maida Withers and John Driscoll were guest artists for a music and dance residency at Wesleyan University, June 10 to June ?, 1980 Students and the guest artists created work at various site locations on campus Students and guest artists ...
LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge
MAIDA WITHERS AND THE DANCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet (click) HISTORY EXHIBITION - September 23 - October 23, 2022 Maida Withers and the ...
Dune
1992 View DUNE In Winds of Sand: https://vimeocom/101621322 : (00:00:00 to 0:05:58) Also view DUNE in Earth Spirit Rising: https://vimeocom/9360613 9 (0:09:13 to 0:16:53) Dune or Moving Earth Dune is created and performed by Maida Withers that takes place with the full body mostly ...
Earth Spirit Rising
[embed]https://vimeocom/93606130[/embed] 1990 “It is my desire to bring to life, through dance, music, and visual imagery, the extraordinary physical and spiritual powers experienced when visiting the land of the four corners area in the Southwestern United States and to express the ...
Dance Construction Company 1974 – 2006
https://vimeocom/16188943 Dance Construction Company: 1974-2006 (31:23) "This video is part of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Catalyst anniversary exhibition that highlights 35 years of WPA's history The WPA retrospective curated by JW Mahoney demonstrates the continuing uniqueness, resilience, and catalytic ...
Laser Dance: Quest-Domain (no laser)
(April 28, 1985) Quest (Part I) and Domain (Part II) and Dialogue (Part III) National Dance Week, Dance Fest '85 Glen Echo Park, Washington, DC Preview of opening sections of upcoming Laser Dance, world premiere, at Lisner Auditorium, June 5 & 6, 1985, with ...
Sky Cathedrals – Media Project (Film 15:00)
Sky Cathedrals (Film 29:56) https://vimeocom/105145824 (1986) - Collaboration of Maida Withers, choreographer, with Adam Peiperl, Kinetic light sculptor Maida's choreography created for Laser Dance (Quest, Domain/Dialogue, other) is combined with kaleidoscope images by Adam Peiperl, Kinetic Light Sculptor Funded by GWU UFF ...
K.A.C. Int’l Exchange: Dance Concert Improvisation (50 anniversary Taejon. Korea)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102128125[/embed] 1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA, dancers improvised a public concert performance November 15, 1999, for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea Professional, classical, Korean musicians collaborated, ...
Hilda Thorpe Tribute – Artists’ Studio Performance
December 4, 1999 - Birthday tribute to Hilda Thorpe at her Artists' Studio in downtown Alexandria, Virginia Maida collaborated with Thorpe, a brilliant American painter and sculptor - part of the illustrious Washington Color School - on several projects engaging the ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] (1992) Spirit Figures is part of Dance for the Earth created in commemoration and for the United Nation's Earth Summer (Eco '92) in Rio de Janeiro and in Brasilia, Brazil Physical Figures, designed by Maida, were created from discarded items ...
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
(1992 ) Messenger Eagle is primarily a male solo in Dance for the Earth that pays homage to the American symbol, the eagle In America, and especially with Native Americans, and other cultures as well, the Eagle is admired and ...
Fascination – Improvisation in Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/99629619[/embed] (1994) Jey Young Kim and Maida Withers improvise in concert in Washington, DC to a poem Fascination, by Young Tai Kim, Korea poet, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel As in life we go through ...
Utah Project
[embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears Bruce Hucko, Photograph “In 1988, I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with a group of artists for a five-week experiment of living and dancing on selected land ...
Damned River
1993 - "Wind is power, the grass, people When winds blow the grass bends" Damned River is dedicated to Mariko, dance colleague in Kyoto, Japan A multimedia stage work for fourteen dancers that explores the dynamics of fascism in its subtle ...
Dance for the Earth
(1992) Dance for the Earth, a collection of "earth consciousness dances" premiered at Thomas Jefferson Community Theater in Arlington, Virginia, February 7 & 8, 1992 Dance for the Earth - an evening-length performance featuring the following five dances: Sky Cloud (1992) Prologue - Cowboys ...
Still Rush (Original Cast – NYC, NY)
[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY View performances of Still Rush by MWDCCo: https://vimeocom/100908352 and https://vimeocom/101001560/ Premiere performance was January 12 and 13, 1991 at Dance Place, Washington, DC, as part of an evening titled ...
Prologue – Cowboys and Indians Play by Maida Withers
[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] 1992 - Short solo dance and written text spoken by Maida Withers - a view of the west as a cowgirl and the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers in Utah Presents that wit that underlies many of Withers' works - ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move (Video) Phase Tracing, Phase Tracing I, Phase Tracing II movement phrase materials (1978 and 1979) are distinctly related to the complex choreography in Catching Butterflies References: https://maidadancecom/works/phase-tracing-movements-title/ https://vimeocom/90693028 https://vimeocom/90679290/ (1979) Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move "Fast ...
Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
1981 - an interview in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers This work followed five years involvement by Maida and other Mormon women ...
Time Dance (1984)
1984 - Restaging choreography of 1976 version of Time Dance for performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre The square was adapted to a very large diamond rather than the original square space at Mt Vernon HandChapleand many other changes occurred ...
Crossing the Edge
[embed]https://vimeocom/91535011[/embed] 1991 - A physically aggressive duet danced to a saxophone score The dancers establish a rapport on the ledge between Earth and Sky - dancers John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi at Dance Place January 12 and 13, 1991 Crossing the ...
Sky Cloud
Stacy Palatt, David Bentley, Dana Tai Soon Burgess (1992) Sky Cloud - created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female color-school artist from the 1950s Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white ...
Laser Dance – Suites of Light, Public Presentation
(1985) Laser Dance "Suites of Light" [embed]https://vimeocom/102179302[/embed] Laser Dance "Suites of Light," Public Presentation: Maida Withers, Rockne Krebs, Bob Boilen, and dancers engaged in a public presentation, on stage at Lisner Auditorium, discussing the creation process of the multidisciplinary Laser Dance project The ...
In Earth’s Belly Deep – an emergence myth
"In Earth's Belly Deep" - Aerial Dance, Emergency Myth, 1990 Mark Thompson, Cecily Carsky-Miller & John Lancaster 1990 - "It is my desire to bring to life, through dance, music, and visual imagery, the extraordinary physical and spiritual powers experienced when visiting ...
Rolling Thunder – “Transformation”
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Rolling Thunder - Transformation USA: https://vimeocom/101003244 (14:18 minutes) Rolling Thunder - Transformation Brazil: https://vimeocom/10232271 (7:35 minutes) (1992) - "Rolling Thunder intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth The gift, the knowledge of ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Maida performed Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples in 1984 in Guangzhou, China (In Winds of Sand at the Hong Kong Academy on that tour) and then performed Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples in Seoul, Korea In 1995 on another Asian ...
Laser Dance – Quest / Domain / Departure (tour)
[embed]https://vimeocom/92363777[/embed] (May 15, 16, 17, 1986 - Tour in Virginia, 1986) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Virginia sponsored tour Quest / Domain /Departure - sections of choreography by Maida Withers created for Laser Dance, Lisner Auditorium, June, 1985, were performed in Washington, DC ...
Seeing Jazz Move – Smithsonian International Gallery
https://vimeocom/519283804 1997 - Seeing Jazz Move - Dance and Music Improvisation performance inspired by the exhibition "Seeing Jazz" presented by the Smithsonian International Gallery - S Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, December 5, 1997 at 6:30 pm FREE Dance and the event, ...
In Winds of Sand
[embed]https://vimeocom/101630192[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/7692794[/embed] 1993 - "The act of beingcreating for the Earth" Evening-length epoch performance and installation created and danced by Maida Withers The installation features visuals by Verabel Call Cluff, SandS CycleS Dancer: Maida Withers Music: Alex Caldiero (drum and vocal) Film: Verabel Call Cluff An ...
Orbit (Film Short 3:30)
[embed]http://vimeocom/7691282[/embed] 1990 - Orbit, an intriguing duet danced by Greg Simione and Eddie Taketa, filmed during the early period framed by the HIV and AIDS crisis The film is an excerpt, conceptually and in form, from the evening-length stage work, Obsession, ...
Families are Forever
1981 - Families Are Forever is a four-part multimedia narrative presented at the Renwick Gallery of Art, Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution during the Memorial Day weekend May 28 and 29, 1981 or ?3 as a tribute to families ...
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz
[embed]https://vimeocom/7983497[/embed] Above: UtahSpirit PlaceSpirit PlanetTukuhnikivatz, performance at Lincoln Center, GREAT DANCE IN THE BANDSHELL, shot by Adam Peiperl in the audience with restriction that he could not stand continuously by the camera due to blocking - 2500 patrons who attended the ...
State of the Art
1986 - State of the Art examines the conflict of art and the artist in American society The rapid development of arts management looms as a potential to independence and innovation by the artist Press Release: State of the Art is ...
SandS CycleS
https://vimeocom/463079035 See the full 30:00 minute movie below 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah by Verable Call Cluff and edited by Cluff refrencing the Hero's Journey described by Joseph Campbell, ...
Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex
[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] Performance in 2 parts: Part I: Elvis Pressley / religion impact - Gender transformation; Part II - AIDS (See ORBIT film: https://vimeocom/7691282 1987 - This evening-length performance is a commentary on the sexual revolution starting with Elvis Presley "Made in the USA" ...
Laser Dance: World Premiere, FCAC-TV
(1985) June 6 and 7 LISNER Auditorium / Washington, DC Evening-length space odyssey: Quest Domain Rites Dialogue Departure [embed]https://vimeocom/7714416[/embed] Laser Dance (above) - shot on 16 mm film due to the low level light on stage required for laser beams Maida Withers ...
Woman See
[embed]https://vimeocom/101667371[/embed] Woman See - Premiere Performance [embed]https://vimeocom/88378613[/embed] Woman See - Duet Part I Commencement (rehearsal; 04:36) [embed]https://vimeocom/75605276[/embed] Interview: Woman See, PBS, WETA TV, DC (See separate page on maidadancecom) WOMAN SEE - 1980 and 1981 A politically charged feminist performance in eight distinct parts with live music, ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] 1981 - Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; a rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation, with dancers from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company Charmed ...