Category Archives: Gender and Feminism
Early Works – 1966 to 1973
Early works -1966 to 1973 (1964 thru 1973) Dance works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as a not-for-profit federally tax-exempt organization in 1974/6 Performers included mature dancers from the Washington, ...
Laser 1 (1971)
(1971) Laser I (Duet) Laser I (Duet) was the first laser collaboration of Maida Withers with Rockne Krebs Maida and Rockne were associates on the Board of Directors for Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC The original choreography, by Maida, ...
Rage
(2006) Rage Maida Withers performed a dramatic solo, "Rage," a female political statement that took place on the theatre stage, a political statement, an improvised performance for the New Arts Festival, Gloucester, MA Gloucester New Arts Festival, a free street and site ...
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 ...
Embrace the Moment
(2023) Embrace the Moment is a beautiful, interactive, female duet created by Jen Clark Stone and Megan Thompson, with Maida Withers The "responsive" duet premiered September 23, 2023 for the OPENING EVENT of LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge, an ...
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 with Sharron Rose Music: John Driscoll Dance Solo: Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) Dancers/Vocals: GW ...
Washington Project for the Arts – Performance
(1975 - ) Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) 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 ...
Catalyst (UnDress)
2011 Anthony Gongora and Tzveta Kasabova, MWDCCo dancers, danced throughout American University's Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington, DC while taking clothes off and putting clothes on (no nudity) while doing a complex male/female duet for the Washington Project for ...
Anonyty / Parts Unknown
Photos by Shaun Schroth 2015 Anonyty explores the intimate boundary between our physical and digital identities, by bringing to life digital people that interact in our real world through movement and dance - a collaboration of Maida Withers and Brian Kane, ...
Africa Comeback Women-Film, Meru, Kenya (Film 9:40)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=a1nwnRYuHxQ[/embed] DCC Photos (many videos and photosneed a decision????_ 2007 - During a second trip to Kenya, Africa, Maida visited Meru at the invitation of Karambu Ringera, Kenyan political and social activist who was building a school, providing space and incentives for ...
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, overtones of feminist notions about WOMAN and MEN Presented by the Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum Program in file Excerpts from dances included: Yesterday's ...
Path
[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] (1989) - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company were selected for a two-week creative residency, May 9 to 21,1989, at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international center for art and ideas Other artist ...
Sphota Probe with Alex Caldiero
(2003) Alex Caldiero performance poet, scholar, author (Salt Lake City, Utah) performs live his poem, Sphota Probe, with dancers Maida Withers and Katia Chupashko Katia performs Thresholds Crossed SOLO (Katia Chupashko) created by Maida Withers using a vertical standing ...
Scat
(1986) December 4 - Scat a dance that was part of the evening-length project/dance of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company titled: Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex Scat is a loose-limbed spoof reminiscent of Be-Bop that was danced to music ...
Prologue – Cowboys & Indians Play by Maida Withers
[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] (1992) February 7 & 8 - Prologue: Cowboys and Indians, a delightful solo performance of dance and spoken text written by Maida Withers - her view of the west as a cowgirl and as the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Episodes 1-2-3 (Artisphere)
(2011) October 21 Three sections from Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) performed October 21, 2011 at Artisphere, a large museum and performance center in Arlington, Virginia The Dome Theatre features a full size ...
Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
http://maidadancecom/works/woman-see-maida-withers-weta-pbs-interview/ 1981 - an interview with Maida in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers Dancers participated live at PBS This work followed five years ...
Dance of the Auroras – Virtual Virgins, Le Sol, Shaman
https://vimeocom/88947601 2000 - (October 1 pr Sept 5??) 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 ...
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 ...
Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex
[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] Performance in 2 parts: Part I: Elvis Presley / 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" ...
Collision Course a.k.a Film/Installation
2012 - Evening length film, featuring poet Alexander Caldiero and surreal visual images of clouds, flying pillows, other The stunning video is compiled from projected images, a visual installation created for and projected during the evening-length multimedia performance, Collision Course ...
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, ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
2012 - A provocative dance theater work from associated memories, dreams, and nightmares, an off-beat yet delightful spectacle about the fiction and reality of LUV for the digital age This evening-length multimedia dance theater work about LUV for the digital ...