Category Archives: Expansion (80s and 90s)
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 ...
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 SandS CycleS - an art film of Withers improvising at Coral ...
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
1996 - an evening length multimedia installation and performance based on ancient and contemporary earth consciousness commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors, GREAT DANCE in the Band Shell Series, Damrosch Park, New York City, NY ...
SandS CycleS
https://vimeocom/463079035 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah and edited following the Hero's Journey described by Joseph Campbell, psychologist, researcher, and scholar [gallery size="medium" ids="6046,6055,6057,6047,6050,6054,6048,6045,6059,6056,6049,6060"] "SandS CycleS is a poetic dance and ...
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 (Stage Performance Excerpts / Fairfax Cable, FCAC-TV)
1985 - Four-part evening-length space odyssey (Part I: Departure; Part II: Quest; Part III, Domain; Part IV, Rites/Skylight/and Departure) of choreography that takes place inside a large-scale installation of argon laser beams created by Rockne Krebs and Synclavier II music ...
Woman See
1980 and 1981 - Woman See A politically charged feminist performance in eight parts with live music narrative, and mixed media conceived and directed by Maida Withers This work culminated a five-year period of Maida working, as a founding ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] Audio sample: https://wwwdropboxcom/s/t3sv1een2crmtfr/Stall%20excerpt%209minwav?dl=0 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 ...