Category Archives: Politics
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 ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
https://vimeocom/1081479749https://thirdspacenetworkcom/bunker-fridays-apocalypse-fatigue/(2025) May 2 Live streaming, Bunkers Friday's online broadcast (Washington, DC)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 ...
Still Rush – NYC Dancers
[embed]http://vimeocom/91811679[/embed] (1992) Still Rush (https://vimeocom/91811679) An impassioned work based on Withers’ pioneer ancestor’s migration from Missouri, Illinois, other locations, to territory in the Mountain West - a valley that became Salt Lake Valley History of Still Rush: Maida was invited to create ...
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 ...
Thresholds Crossed – Part I, TsEKh Residency
(2005) (get rid of underline) July 4 to 21 Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow, Russia - work in progress MWDCCo were guest artists-in-residence for three weeks in Moscow, Russia with the highly regarded TsEKh International Summer School (July 4-21,2005) In a ...
RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: Resistance
RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ART and DANCE of Resistance THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ART Washington, DC presents January 20, 2019 USA: Maida Withers, Dance Construction Company UKRAINE: Anton Ovchinnikov, Black O!Range! Dance USA: Erica Rebollar, Rebollar Dance USA: Yoko K Sen, Sound Artist RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ...
60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE
USA / UKRAINE CHOREOGRAPHY: MAIDA WITHERS, USA - ANTON OVCHINNIKOV, Ukraine ELECTRONIC COMPOSER/MUSICIAN, STEVE HILMY, USA 60TH GALA ANNIVERSARY of the NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTER OF UKRAINE WORLD PREMIERE "60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE" “scattering the ruins of the past for the sake of the future” Site Performance - ...
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 ...
Dance and Politics: Couch Conversation
2016 February 16 DANCE AND POLITICS: COUCH CONVERSATION & PERFORMANCE International choreographers and activist artists, Maida Withers, Washington, DC, and Annika B Lewis, Denmark, engage, irreverently, in dialogue and performance exploring questions of politics and culture, today, in the USA and ...
Trans Action – ART LIVES HERE OR NOT!
(2014) September 20 Creative Placemaking Initiative Takes Site-Specific Dance into Hyattsville, MD "Art Lives Here celebrates Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company’s pivotal role in the 1970s dance revolution that became known as site-specific work" [embed]https://vimeocom/110949775[/embed] Mount Rainier, MD: On September 20th ...
K.A.C. Int’l Exchange: Dance Concert Improvisation (50 anniversary Taejon. Korea)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102128125[/embed] 1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA, dancers improvised a public concert performance November 15, 1999, for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea Professional, classical, Korean musicians collaborated, ...
Solovky Island, Gulag Residency, Russia
[embed]https://vimeocom/429686550[/embed] 2004 - Solovky is known for the astonishing 14th Century monastery and man-made rivers There islands housed one of the first Soviet Era GULAGS experiments We had assembled from Russia, Finland, and the USA for the Solosphere Project that took ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] (1992) February 7 and 8 Spirit Figures premiered in an evening of concert dances titled Dance for the Earth, Arlington, Virginia Dances in the evening-length program of five works, were created in commemoration and honored awareness of planet earth and ...
Invocation to Sustainability
(2010) May 16 Under the invitation of Maida Withers, dancers from the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre performed the opening ceremony at "The Friends" / Angels Landing, dancing with hand-held chimes at the kick-off event for the 4th Amazing EarthFEST in ...
Dance for the Earth Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/100908352[/embed] (1992) Dance for the Earth, February 7 & 8, 1992: an evening-length program, a collection of "earth consciousness dances" premiered at Thomas Jefferson Community Theater in Arlington, Virginia, February 7 & 8, 1992: Sky Cloud: Metaphoric dance - the wind, the voice of ...
Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film 3:51)
[embed]https://vimeocom/8079530[/embed] SEE LARGE PHOTOS on web page FLICKR ??? Ask Andrew and Jamille about FLICKR???? Early on we used it, where are the photos filed? Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film Short: 3:51) (2004) (2004) Thresholds Crossed/Art Angar - Political dance ...
Faces of the Fallen (World War II Memorial)
2004 - World War II Memorial Site event created by Maida Withers with six female dancers from The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, Washington, DC The Capital City has rich resources, monuments, statues, gardens, islands of political ...
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, ...
Freedom of Information – 24 Hour Dance
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593512[/embed] (2008) December 31 and (2009) January 1 - Concept and invitation: Miguel Gutierrez 24-hour endurance event with Maida blindfolded and with ears plugged In response to the ongoing US military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, Miguel Gutierrez, NYC, invited artists across ...
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 ...
LENIN
(2005) April 14 Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolay Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium" The work was ...