Category Archives: Installation / Visual
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 1976 Performers included dancers from the community and ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
https://vimeocom/1081479749https://thirdspacenetworkcom/bunker-fridays-apocalypse-fatigue/(May 2, 2025) Live streaming, Bunkers Friday's online broadcast:Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time (2025) where Maida Withers, dance artist, collaborates with Randall Packer, visual media composer, founder of Third Space Network / Bunker Friday's broadcast, ...
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 ...
OPEN
Exhibition: "OPEN" by Robin Bell Corcoran School of Arts and Design Flagg Building, 500 17th Street, NW Tuesday–Friday, 10 AM–6 PM, 2019 Saturday and Sunday, 1–6 PM OPEN, an installation of lights and projections by artist Robin Bell, is a celebration of transparency, belonging, and ...
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 ...
Rainforest Awakens
RAINFOREST AWAKENS Artists come together "live and online" to explore beauty and crisis in a visionary 3D Rainforest! Maida Withers, noted dance artist, performs in iridescent 3D virtual worlds of Tania Fraga, Brazilian computer artist, in a sonic forest of sound by Steve Hilmy This occurred during the Corona ...
Naked Truth – Tzveta Solo With Film Installation
[embed]https://vimeocom/73873364/[/embed] 2012 - Tzveta Kassabova performs with Film Installation of Tzveta dancing her solo from Naked Truth as part of Involuntary Encounters Event in Dorothy Betts Marvin Center: An evening of diverse dances by dance artists, friends and former dancers with ...
Naked Truth – Tzveta Artisphere Solo
[embed]http://vimeocom/31281607[/embed] 2011 - Tzveta Kassabova performs an excerpt of her solo from the 20 minute trio, Naked Truth, for Maida Withers Films at Artisphere Theatre, Arlington, VA Artisphere, an unusual curved stage in a large theatre with the seats moving upward ...
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 ...
Offering
[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) Solo from MindFluctuations, a work created and performed by Maida Withers, co-authored with virtual worlds created by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil Offering Choreography and performance by Maida Withers Costume by Maida Withers Music by John Driscoll and ...
Monster Man
Monster Man (7:29) (2015) Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work with choreography co-authored by Anthony Gongora, supported by Maida Withers, artistic director (MWDCCo - Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Monster Man Choreography and performance by Anthony ...
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 ...
Psychedelic Dance
(1968-1969) Psychedelic Dance was created by Maida Withers with GW undergraduate dancers performing A new technique involved oil, cake coloring mixed in water, in a clear glass mixing bowl This projection technique was made possible with water, coloring, and oil ...
Caching Butterflies and Other Things that Move _Photos
Photos, only Possibly move to another location (1978-9) The movements from Phase Tracing were developed with four dancers Phrases of movement across and through the space were embellished to be interrupted by another dancer blocking and then releasing the movement for ...
Sky Cathedrals – Media Project (Film 15:00)
Sky Cathedrals (Film 29:56) https://vimeocom/105145824 (1986) - Collaboration of Maida Withers, choreographer, with Adam Peiperl, Kinetic light sculptor Maida's choreography created for Laser Dance (Quest, Domain/Dialogue, other) is combined with kaleidoscope images by Adam Peiperl, Kinetic Light Sculptor Funded by GWU UFF ...
DIGG – a provocative excavation of the current political landscape
"Withers has created a work that spans the human experience of witnessing modern American politics: anxiety, fear, anger, nervous laughter and resilient hope" Cassie Patterson (2018) "Withers is a dance legend" Carmel Morgan (2018) https://vimeocom/390858979 (2018) February 10, 11 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance ...
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 ...
MASQUERADE BALL – Blind Whino (40th Anniversary Celebration)
[embed]https://vimeocom/111740161[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/111806662[/embed] 2014 - In celebration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company’s 40th anniversary, Art Whino presented a Masquerade Ball at Blind Whino: SW Arts Club, full of mystery and surprise This full sensory experience combined performance art with experimental dance, live ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hilda Thorpe Tribute – Artists’ Studio Performance
December 4, 1999 - Birthday tribute to Hilda Thorpe at her Artists' Studio in downtown Alexandria, Virginia Maida collaborated with Thorpe, a brilliant American painter and sculptor - part of the illustrious Washington Color School - on several projects engaging the ...
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, ...
Earth Meets Sky
1980 - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company collaborate with seventeen Washington, DC dancers performing an evening-length dance improvisation script to music improvised by Steve Bloom, Michael Manring, and Chris Beaven in GW's Studio K Theatre, Washington, DC Performance may ...
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 ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe – Visual Installation
2003 - Video history, selection of segments of choreography by Maida Withers that were projected on stage as a visual installation during the live performance of Maida on Maida in the Universe In essence Maida compares her creative process with ...
Collision Course a.k.a. episodes 1-2-3 (Artisphere)
2011 - Three sections of Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) performed at Artisphere, a museum and performance center in Arlington, Virginia, October 21, 2011 The Dome Theatre features a full size film curved ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film Installation (60:00)
[embed]https://vimeocom/8077130[/embed] 1996 and 1997 - Tukuhnikivatz (film) (01:03:45) - created for projection on the 60' x 60' Band Shell as part of the evening-length multimedia production Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors GREAT DANCE ...
InVoluntary Encounters
2012 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and guest artist choreographers and dancers from NYC, Boston and Japan create an interactive event of dance, live video feed, film, and electronic music that features improvisations by choreographers who perform and a ...
MindFluctuations Numeric Variations Residency Brazil
[embed]https://vimeocom/81430645[/embed] [embed]http://vimeocom/121074310[/embed] 2014 - Maida Withers participated in a residency at the Institute of Mathematics and Art (Instituto de Matematica e Arte) in São Paulo, Brazil in February 2014 As a passionate advocate for the collaboration of art and technology, she and ...
For Verabel
1977 - "For Verable, a female duet created in recognition of the separation and eventual divorce of two of my (Maida's) dearest Mormon friends, Verabel Call Cluff and Tony Cluff, parents of children, good friends of my children" The duet ...
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 ...
Phase Tracing II and The Wall
(1979 and 1980) Phase Tracing continued with two additional projects: Phase Tracing II and The Wall Conflicting information on dates Regrets: Insufficient information for accurate posting at this time Phase Tracing II February 29, March 1, and March 2, 1980 and or April ...
Turf
1983 - Turf An Evening length feminist performance on women Olympians created in honor of the 1984 Olympics to be held in LA, California Olympic Films from the German Olympics (1936) and the Olympics in Japan (1962) and the 1976 ...
Laser Dance – Suites of Light, Public Presentation
(1985) Laser Dance "Suites of Light" [embed]https://vimeocom/102179302[/embed] Laser Dance "Suites of Light," Public Presentation: Maida Withers, Rockne Krebs, Bob Boilen, and dancers engaged in a public presentation, on stage at Lisner Auditorium, discussing the creation process of the multidisciplinary Laser Dance project The ...
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 ...
Halda – a mound of waste (Bytom, Poland)
1977 - An evening-length site performance commissioned by Slaski Teatre Tanca for the 1997 International Dance Conference and Festival in Bytom, Poland This outdoor performance was created with four Polish dancers from the Eksperymentalne Studio Tanca in Kracow, Poland and ...
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 ...
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 ...
MindFluctuations
MINDFLUCTUATIONS DANCE, NEUROSCIENCE, VIRTUAL ART, LIVE MUSIC A Java 3D application drives the participants within a metaphorical virtual reality journey World Premiere / Lisner Auditorium March 19, 2015 Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/126002412[/embed] Trailer: MindFluctuations (6:29) Click to view Full-length Performance (1:22:33) Below: Select MindFluctuations Sections performed independently [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Monster Man: https://vimeocom/128670434 [embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Woman: https://vimeocom/129210568 [embed]https://vimeocom/129210568[/embed] MindFluctuations, a groundbreaking collaboration between ...
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 ...
Investigation of Late
2002 - Maida created and performed a duet with Lotta Lundgren, dancer from Sweden, for the concert Five Views - 5 Companies that was produced in the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, May 3 and 4, 2002 in Washington, DC Investigation of Late ...
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, ...
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
[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, ...
Phase Tracing
(1978) - Phase Tracing, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist In the performance, dancer's movements make inaudible sound audible with movements of the body or movement of silver strips of polyethylene/mylar strips hung from ceiling ...
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: World Premiere, FCAC-TV
(1985) June 6 and 7 LISNER Auditorium / Washington, DC Evening-length space odyssey: Quest Domain Rites Dialogue Departure [embed]https://vimeocom/7714416[/embed] Laser Dance (above) - shot on 16 mm film due to the low level light on stage required for laser beams Maida Withers ...
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, ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] 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 Company Charmed ...
Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance)
2006 - Part I, II, III, IV: A fusion of East and West that explores the events, ideology and humanistic issues that link the US with the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia over four decades of time Colored by ...
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 ...
LENIN
005 - Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolai Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium" The work was part ...
Bog Works
BOG Works: Maida Withers, dancer @ WPA (no existing photos of homemade speaker installation) Photo: Adam Peiperl BOG WORKS: John Driscoll Instruments @ WPA BOG WORKS: John Driscoll Instruments @ WPA 1975 - Friday, August 15, 1975 Home-Made Speakers and Dance Program: Installation performance with ...