Category Archives: Earth and Environment
Dance Film – ITVS Sampler
ITVS (Independent Television Service) sample for proposed film by MWDCCo for documentary film ITVS (Independent Television Service) is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS The proposed project was ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)
[embed]http://vimeocom/17845659[/embed] FareWell - Tipping Point
Dance of the Auroras – Part III – Magnetic Storm Seen From Above
2000 St Petersburg, Russia (April 2000) Residency with Kannon Dance School and Company, St Petersburg, Russia • Maida Withers created Part III Magnetic Storm of Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky with Iwona Olszowska, dancer from Poland, and ...
Rainforest Awakens
Tania Fraga Maida Withers Steve Hilmy RAINFOREST AWAKENS II [embed]https://vimeocom/471183584[/embed] https://vimeocom/470650599 DRESS REHEARSAL LIVE ZOOM REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE BROADCAST WEBINAR interactive telematic performance with maida withers | performance telemática interactiva com maida withers October 21st | 21 de outubro, 2020, 06h30 PM (EDT) – 19h30 (BRT) Support | Apoios: The ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky: Science and Art
(2001) Public presentation of aspects of Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky was sponsored by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the large domed Albert Einstein Planetarium, Washington, DC the week prior to the premiere of the ...
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 ...
Thresholds Crossed Duet – Norilsk, RUSSIA
(2006) Russian arts producer, Luba Kusovnikova, invited Maida to present the duet from Thresholds Crossed, with Russian dancers Konstantin Grouss and Ananstasia Oleynik, in Norilsk, Russia for the Indigenous Conference: Integrity of Cultural Space – the Notion of “Border” in ...
TUK I: Trailer (2:29)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=HKlR5x0f8EA&t=23s[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/99726485[/embed] https://vimeocom/99726485 (Trailer) TUK I (1:37) TUK (1:37) (2011) FILM - WEAK FORMATTING TUK (2:29) (2007) FILM Maida Withers and her art partner, Verabel Call Cluff, with the assistance of Joe Pachak, selected four locations (sites) in the Southeastern part of the State of Utah ...
ICEBERGS: Fault Line
Small Format Contemporary Dance Festival Curator: Ekaterina Zharinova Yekaterinburg History Museum Yekaterinburg, Russia (2016) ICEBERGS: Fault Line August 26, 2016 @ 7:00 pm Solo performance: Maida Withers Panel Discussion: August 28, 2016 at noon Maida Withers premieres ICEBERGS: Fault Line, a loosely structured solo based on MWDCCo site work, ...
ICEBERGS: Glacial Drift
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 [gallery ids="6111,6098,6110,6109,6108,6107,6106,6105,6104,6103,6102,6101,6100,6099,6097"] [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/EDehEZkThW4[/embed] GLACIAL DRIFT was one of National Building Museum's Block Party Late Nights that is part of its big summer installation ...
FareWell: Comments by Choreographer Maida Withers
[embed]https://vimeocom/7113850[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During ...
FareWell: Comments by Composer Steve Hilmy
[embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - a shortened version of the evenng-length work was performed by Maida Withers for Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer (2008) FareWell and Hell-O Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage, a riveting "wake up call!" Alex and Maida have a substantive history of working ...
Hekuras (Visual Installation)
2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian technology (computer) artist, created original virtual worlds that became projected environments/installations on stage for the dances - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil, 2002) and Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (GW, 2010) and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 - ...
FareWell: Comments by Media Artist Ayo Okunseinde
[embed]https://vimeocom/7113378[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - Interview of Ayo Okunseinde about his work with Maida presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During our residency Linda Lewett interviewed Maida Withers, choreography/dancer, ...
Dance of the Auroras – Virtual Virgins, Le Sol, Shaman
2000 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was honored to be invited to perform as part of the Dance Place 20/20 Visions Anniversary Concert celebrating 20 years of sponsoring and presenting dance In the year 2000, Dance of the Auroras ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
FareWell – Rising Tide
[embed]https://vimeocom/6834436[/embed] 2009 - a dance work that is part of the FareWell project, a series of several dances, examines the rising of our oceans and the pollution of the seas and waterways with plastic water bottles and other debris and chemicals ...
FareWell: Parched Earth – Remembrances from Tomorrow (Kenya, Africa)
2008 - A dance project that took place in Nairobi, Kenya at the GoDown Center for the Arts The dance work, Parched Earth, was created in collaboration with nine Kenyan dancers (six men and three women) during a three-week residency ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Jadee Mitchell)
[embed]https://vimeocom/6815207[/embed] 2008 - Multimedia solo originally created by Maida Withers, choreographer for Jadee Mitchell, GW dancer Tipping Point refers to the crisis of global warming demonstrated most vividly in the Arctic and Antarctica, continents of ice on our planet that are ...
FareWell: The Others – Uncertain World
2007 - A brash but intimate improvisation performance, Fare Well: The Others (Uncertain World) was the first investigation event related to the Fare Well project - environmental change A brash and hilarious, but intimate, improvisation performance Dancers: Maida Withers, DC, Wendell ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky, DC
[embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] 2001 A Four Part performance: I: "The Sun/Virtual Sun" II: "Solar Wind Towards Magnetosphere" III: "Magnetic Storm Seen from Above" IV: "View from the Earth" "A poetic journey through space using real-time interaction with cyber worlds and movies and images of the sun and the ...
Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil)
[embed]https://vimeocom/77462030[/embed] (2002) Hekuras: Spirits of the Rainforest, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Anhembi Morumbi University) (Original title: A River Runs Deep, São Paulo, Brazil) Project conceived by Maida Withers, USA, and Tania Fraga, Brazil Maida's motivation came from MWDCCo involvement in Brazil for the United ...
Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (USA)
[caption id="attachment_4670" align="alignnone" width="4600"] 2010 - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest was first created in São Paulo, Brazil (2002) with Brazilian dancers during a three-week residency The version presented in Washington, DC maintained some of the thematic movement materials, ...
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 ...
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, ...
FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise
2008 - FareWell to the End of the World As We Know It or Dancing Your Way to Paradise "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan [embed]https://vimeocom/6643827[/embed] Dance Place Performance: http://vimeocom/17018474 Trailer: https://vimeocom/15561322 TOURS: 2008-2012 World Premiere: Zagrebi Festival! Zagreb, ...
Data to Dance: Dance of the Auroras-Fire in the Sky
2009 - A fascinating documentary on the creation of Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky - a poetic odyssey through space from the Sun to Earth Showcasing an evening-length performance of dance, music and virtual art, this international project ...