Category Archives: Foundation Period (60s to 80s)
Pnumbral Raincoast
Washington Project for the Arts/1227 G Street NW/Washington, DC Program information provided by John Driscoll, 7/6/2025 (physical program, difficult to read so typed information below) Steve Bloom ...
WPA – Early Works
WPA - Early Works (Washington Project for the Arts) 1974 Maida involvement with Washington Project for the Arts as a new multi-disciplinary organization in Washington, DC established by Alice Denny, facilitated the Dance Construction Company rehearsing and performing in the WPA ...
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 ...
Mass – A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to us on the Sabbath
1972 Mass - A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to Us on the Sabbath: A dance opera Choreography: Maida Withers w Sharron Rose Music: John Driscoll Dance Solo: Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) Dancers/Vocals: GW ...
Essays Part I: Of the Mind; Part II: Of the Heart
1966 - Choreography with GW dancers explores the balance and conflict between the impulses of the mind and that of the heart Obviously that was of concern to the artist in the emerging Post-Modern expressive conversation Of the Heart Of the Mind Of ...
Washington Project for the Arts – Performance
1975 Washington Project for the Arts was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW Festival in 1966 Artists joined in cleaning out the bird dung in a vacated building that was formerly a building ...
Thin Holes / BYU Residency
1976 - Thin Holes, a new work created during a three week summer dance residency: Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company (Maida Withers, John Bailey, Brook Andrews) and John Driscoll, composer/musician, engaged in a three to four week residency ...
Dance / Music Columbus Museum of Art
Past Informtion in red deleted: https://maidadancecom/works/changing-the-system/ TITLE DELETED FROM THE WEB 1974 - The performance at the Columbus Museum of Art was during the public celebration of the change of the name from Gallery of Fine Arts to Columbus Museum of Art, ...
Dances on Men and Women (Repertory)
1984 - Retrospective - selection of short duets and quartets created by Maida Withers for the Dance Construction Company, 1974-1984, presented by the Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum - overtones of feminist notions about WOMAN Program in file Excerpts from dances ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses-2013
2013 - An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on George Washington University dancers and performed on DanceWorks November 14, 15, 16, 2013 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Originally choreographed by Maida Withers with founders of ...