Category Archives: Classes
Artist-in-Schools Program
National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Education in the early 1970's joined forces to established the Artists-in-Schools Program This program would bring professional artists into the schools to work with administrators, to teach children and teachers, and ...
Wesleyan University – Music and Dance Residency
(1980) June 10 Maida Withers and John Driscoll were guest artists for a music and dance residency at Wesleyan University Students and the guest artists created work at various site locations on campus Students and guest artists performed in various ...
GW Dance Technique as Performance
[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) April 5 ok In 2017, five dancers, students at George Washington University, studied with Maida Withers, to explore a course, Dance Technique as Performance The course was divided into four segments After three weeks of studying movement and movement phrases, ...
United Nation’s Earth Summit Eco ’92 Brazil
Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Dana Tai Soon Burgess; female, TBD "In the 1990's, artists and the arts will play a central role as communicators of values in world consciousness of ecology and related social and cultural issues, working hand ...
Thin Holes / BYU Residency
Too short? July 19 to August 13, 1976 1976 - July 19 to August 13, 1976 - Company in Residence 1976 - August 8 Thin Holes, a new work created during a three week summer dance residency: Maida Withers and the Dance ...
TOUCH 3 International Festival Arkhangelsk, Russia
2004 - For TOUCH 3 (July 11 to 16) International Modern Dance Festival in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Produced and Directed by Nikolais Shchetnev We were honored to be part of this exciting and diverse professional festival MWDCCo directed an original site-specific ...
Cuba – Santiago de Cuba: In the Eye of the Beholder (Short Film 10:00)
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593674[/embed] 2007 - February 5 to 10 Maida Wither was in Cuba for five days when Fidel Castro was in power During that time she captured life and culture in Cuba on her video camera This informal film short reveals Maida's ...
Cuba Today – Havana – 2007 (Documentary Short 8:39)
2007 - February 11 Havana, Cuba - Video by Maida Withers, visitor from USA [embed]https://vimeocom/473593772[/embed] Documentary Short (8:39) Maida visited Havana during her stay in Santiago de Cuba studying the culture, especially the dance and music While there, she made this simple ...
Rolling Thunder / Transformation (Dance for the Earth)
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] (1992) February 7 and 8 Dance for the Earth, Thomas Jefferson Community Theater, Arlington, Virginia, (Six dances including Rolling Thunder) Program: Intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth The gift, ...