Category Archives: Technology and Dance
Pnumbral Raincoast
Washington Project for the Arts/1227 G Street NW/Washington, DC Program information provided by John Driscoll, 7/6/2025 (physical program, difficult to read so typed information below) Steve Bloom ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
12-minute live performance in Bunker Fridays, Washington, DC, May 2, 2025 Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time in the history of America, to speak openly about Apocalypse Fatigue! Maida Withers, legendary dancer, choreographer, activist performs “live” at Bunker ...
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 ...
Offering
MindFluctuation: Offering [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (solo) from MindFluctuations, created and performed by Maida Withers; Virtual World by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil See MindFluctations (2015),an evening-length performance, for complete information Maida Withers, solo performance, danced wearing the helmet to influence the ...
Monster Man (See MindFluctuations)
[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (7:29) (See - excerpt from MindFluctuations, 2015) Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work co-authored by Maida Withers, choreographer and artistic director (Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) MindFluctuations: Monster Man Choreography and performance by Anthony ...
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 [embed]https://vimeocom/258150770[/embed] 2018 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance experience created and ...
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, ...
Chain of Events
Video, Kennedy Center Archives: http://wwwkennedy-centerorg/explorer/videos/?id=M6136&type=A December 8, 2014 - Chain of Events sheer imaginative fallout of movement Presented by Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Date/Time: December 8, 2014 at 6:00 to 6:50 pm, FREE Location: Kennedy Center Theatre Lab; 2700 F Street, NW Washington, ...
Hekuras (Visual Installation)
2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian Computer artist, created original virtual art 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) The virtual ...
Interview – Dance and Technology
https://vimeocom/695056450 2003 - Stacy Palatt, GW Master of Arts in Dance, interviews Maida on the role technology has played in Maida's work as an artist and collaborator and Maida's views on the possibilities of dance and technology Maida was one of ...