Category Archives: Work
LEGACY Project
Corcoran Flagg Building Washington, DC World Premiere: October-November, 2022 LEGACY, A NEW PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION AND EXHIBITION being created, challenges assumptions of ...
Dance Portraits on Screen 2021
[embed]https://vimeocom/544797357[/embed] Dance Portraits on Screen 2021 This film by Maida Withers, choreographer, and Robin Bell, filmmaker, captures a portrait of young dancers, alone on screen for one minute, in Spring 2021 when COVID-19 was slowing down ...
Tukuhnikivatz
[embed]https://vimeocom/468693246[/embed] To view and download Tukuhnikivatz use password: filmfestivals1313 For discussion of Tukuhnikivatz premiere presentation in Sao Paulo Brazil visit: https://youtube/vywdsBCnRII/ "I returned to the area of my birth with dancers to find a story embedded in the rocks and deserts of Utah ...
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 ...
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 ...
Monster Man (See MindFluctuations)
[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (7:29) (See MindFluctuations) 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 Gongora Costume by Maida Withers Sculpture/Mask ...
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 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance experience created and ...
No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica
[embed]http://vimeocom/226994154[/embed] No More Ping Pong Balls Performance Intervieux: Maida on Erica The life of Erica Rebollar, birthday girl and celebrant, exposed through an unclassified, no boundaries interview setup configured in a unexpected disorganization by dance artist friend and provocateur, Maida Withers Please throw your ...
GW Dance Technique as Performance
[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] In 2017, five dancers, students at George Washington University, studied with Maida Withers, to explore a course, Dance Technique as Performance The course was divided into four segments After three weeks of studying movement and movement phrases, the students performed ...
BLEEPERS
BLEEPERS Performed at WPA in the upper open theatre space on G Street Props – Five working bleepers (extra for during performance) – check police station for a newer model Lights - Amy Plummer Light Design – same six options, possibly floodlight lights or ...
ICEBERGS: Fault Line
Small Format Contemporary Dance Festival Yekaterinburg History Museum Yekaterinburg, Russia ICEBERGS: Fault Line August 26, 2016 @ 7:00 pm Panel Discussion: August 28, 2016 at noon Maida Withers premieres ICEBERGS: Fault Line a solo based on MWDCCo site work, GLACIAL DRIFT Music is by electronic ...
ICEBERGS: Glacial Drift
ICEBERGS National Building Museum Washington, DC presents GLACIAL DRIFT - PREMIERE 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 programming for ...
Dance and Politics: Couch Conversation
2016 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 Europe "Out of ...