Category Archives: Stage Works

Stone Ring

1995 -  Residency with international artists, Maida Withers, Marilia (Japan/Brazil/America), and Stephen Lockwood in Washington, DC to create an evening-length work performed in Studio J Theatre at GW  The residency was held for the major artists to explore ideas for ...

One Too Many (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Work created by Maida Withers for the Kuala Lumpur Ballet Company, Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia under the direction of Lee Lee Lan  (no documentation)  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (May 22 -29, 1994) Kuala Lumpur Dance Theatre, Director and Founder Lee Lee Lan; Kuala ...

Stirrings (Sculpture)

[embed]https://vimeocom/93869877[/embed] 1994 - Stirrings was created, originally, as a multimedia solo for Korean modern dancer, Je Young Kim and performed in Washington, DC with the world premiere in Seoul, Korea at the 13th International Modern Dance Festival, May 2 to 5, ...

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 ...

Fascination – Improvisation in Concert

[embed]https://vimeocom/99629619[/embed] 1994 -Jey Young Kim and Maida Withers improvise in concert  in Washington, DC to a poem Fascination,  by Young Tai Kim, Korea, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel  As in life we go through a ...

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 ...

Rolling Thunder – Transformation, DC

[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] 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 the earth, is brought forth Those who hear the message change - transforming themselves ...

Sky Cloud

1992 - Dance work created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female artist from the 1950s  Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white gauze with hand-made paper painted on by Hilda ...

Still Rush – MWDCCo

1992 - Still Rush was performed in Washington, DC by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as part of Rolling Thunder in the Dance for the Earth  concert Still Rush was first titled, Passage, but was changed for performance  The concept is ...

Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)

1992 - In America, Native America, and many other cultures, the Eagle is admired and held in great reverence  When working on the red earth sites in the Southwestern United States it is always a glorious moment when the Eagle ...

Spirit Figures

[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] 1992 - Spirit Figures is  part of Dance for the Earth created in commemoration and for the United Nation's Earth Summer (Eco '92) in Brazil   Spirit figures wer created from discarded items (trash, like plastic) that create horrific destruction to ...

Dance for the Earth

1992 - Title given to the evening-length performance that included the following six dances related to Maida's Earth consciousness projects: Sky Cloud (1992), Prologue - Cowboys and Indian Play (1991), Messenger Eagle (1992), Still Rush (1991), Rolling Thunder "Transformation" (1992) Dance for the Earth was presented ...

Spirit Path / Migration / Remains

[embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] Must revisit hard copy in archives to ascertain any video, etc Does the concert at Dance Place include: Spirit Path / Migration / Remains,  Crossing the Edge with John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi, and Still Rush with the NYC cast ...

Crossing the Edge

[embed]https://vimeocom/91535011[/embed] 1991 - A physically aggressive duet danced to a saxophone score The dancers establish a rapport on the ledge between Earth and Sky - dancers John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi at Dance Place January 12 and 13, 1991 Crossing the ...