Category Archives: Films
Dance of the Auroras – Part III Magnet Storm Seen From Above
Film/Video excerpts of MWDCCO for ITVS (2001 to 2012): submitted for consideration for a 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 ...
PAMYATATY – UKRAINE
Note: PAM'YATATY DANCE FILMS INTRODUCTION: MAIDA WITHERS Click INTRODUCTION to view Maida Withers at Taras Shevchenko Memorial Park in Washington, DC - remarks presented at Ukraine dance site film showings June 4, 2025, Lviv, Ukraine, and June 22, 2025, Kyiv, ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
https://vimeocom/1081479749 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 ...
Ascenso – Buenos Aries, Argentina
Photos by: ASCENSO https://vimeocom/556604884 2014 Maida was in Argentina showing dance films in a university seminar She became acquainted with a musician, dancer, filmmaker, Maximiliano Wille, and became involved with an art and technology event between two universities in Argentina Maxi ...
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 ...
Performatica: Tres-Dias-en-Cholula
Performatica 2009: 3rd Foro Internacional De Danza Contemporanea Artes de Nivunuebti founded in 2006 by Ray Schwartz and Myra Morales at the Universidad de las Americas UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico residency program [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] MWDCCo 2009 participation in Performatica 2009: Maida Withers created a site ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film (39:58)
[embed]https://vimeocom/468693246[/embed] 2020 Tukuhnikivatz Film (3958) Edit from original (1:03:45) Film festivals: 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 ...
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 ...
Dance Construction Company 1974 – 2006
https://vimeocom/16188943 Dance Construction Company: 1974-2006 (31:23) "This video is part of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Catalyst anniversary exhibition that highlights 35 years of WPA's history The WPA retrospective curated by JW Mahoney demonstrates the continuing uniqueness, resilience, and catalytic ...
MWDCCo 1974 – 2006
Video excerpts of select dances from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company archives Concept/Choreography by Maida Withers with dancers Video currently on display on maidadancecom opening page Assembled for the Maida Withers: A Choreographer's Life, Exhibition in the Dimock Gallery" [embed]https://vimeocom/103766078[/embed] Excerpts - Maida ...
MWDCCo 1997-2006
This video is on the opening page of maidadancecom The video is a collection of excerpts from dances of MWDCCo It may also have been part of the Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life Exhibition in the Dimock Gallery It is ...
One Minute Wander
[embed]https://vimeocom/78919495[/embed] 2000 - Following an interview regarding her new dance work-in-progress, Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz, Maida Withers was asked by filmmaker Linda Lewett to extend the interview into a "nature" performance by the creek near Maida's ...
On Site: Nomad Dancer
[embed]http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=Tw4ZbyuRkCU[/embed] http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=Tw4ZbyuRkCU 2007 Maida talks about her life, living and creating art born from her own life experiences and philosophy The short video includes excerpts from site works: UtahSpirit PlaceSpirit PlanetTukuhnikivatz; Haldaa mound of waste; Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest; Sunday ...
Sky Cathedrals – Media Project (Film 15:00)
1987 - Video project, "Obelisks," by Adam Peiperl, visual artist combined with dance on video The sculptural objects created by Adam have kaleidoscopic effect of based on the materials used to create the sculptures moving on a rotating plate as ...
TUK I: Trailer (2:29)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=HKlR5x0f8EA&t=23s[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/99726485[/embed] https://vimeocom/99726485 (Trailer) TUK I (1:37) TUK (1:37) (2011) FILM - WEAK FORMATTING TUK (2:29) (2007) FILM Maida Withers and her art partner, Verabel Call Cluff, with the assistance of Joe Pachak, selected four locations (sites) in the Southeastern part of the State of Utah ...
FareWell: Comments by Choreographer Maida Withers
[embed]https://vimeocom/7113850[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During ...
FareWell: Comments by Composer Steve Hilmy
[embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During our ...
Dance Portraits on Screen (Dance Films)
2011 - Concept for creating dance film shorts begun by MWDCCo in 2010 where the film making team collaborates with a selected artist (dancer/performance artist/others) to create a personal portrait (movement, language, life view, other) The initial goal was to ...
Perfect Moment – WPA Mapplethorpe Exhibit (Film 9:48)
[embed]http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=EjAyDfRVYTc[/embed] Documentary Film: Linda Lewett, Matt Dibble, Maida Withers 1989 - Video taped in 1989 at the height of the NEA censorship controversy Footage appeared on Oprah! and on newscasts across the country, and in 2011 for Culture Wars: Then and Now ...
I am a Nomad (FILM Short) (3:16)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=Tw4ZbyuRkCU&t=32s[/embed] 2007 - (3:15 min) a narrated video short by Maida about life and her dances around the issues "live art," excerpts of 6 site-specific projects This simple statement was created to show her restlessness (thus her nomadic nature) and her ...
Solovky Island, Gulag Residency, Russia
[embed]https://vimeocom/429686550[/embed] 2004 - Solosphere Project took place on Solovky Island, White Sea of Russia - Art Angar Contemporary Center for Art (Hanger for the blimp that transported food and materials to the Gulag: Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora, dancers, Linda Lewett, ...
Cuba – Santiago de Cuba: In the Eye of the Beholder (Short Film 10:00)
2007 - This informal film short reveals Maida's brief engagement with the people and culture in Cuba Sensual dance, jazz music, voodoo, religion, and revolution are part of the Haitian-Afro-Cuban culture of Santiago Maida visited Cuba for ten days, February 5-10, ...
Cuba – Havana Today – 2007 (Documentary Short 8:39)
2007 - Maida visited Havana from her stay in Santiago de Cuba and made this simple record of the sights and sounds on the streets of Havana, Cuba with her Sony mini-dv camera Fidel Castro was gravely ill on the ...
Africa Comeback Women-Film, Meru, Kenya (Film 9:40)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=a1nwnRYuHxQ[/embed] DCC Photos (many videos and photosneed a decision????_ 2007 - During a second trip to Kenya, Africa, Maida visited Meru at the invitation of Karambu Ringera, Kenyan political and social activist who was building a school, providing space and incentives for ...
Cuba – Trumpet Man – Inaudis Paisan Mallet (Film Short 7:08)
2007 - Maida visited Cuba for ten days, February 5 - 10, 2007 to study the dance/text/ritual of the Cutumba Ballet Folklorico Santiago de Cuba Jim Lepore, dancer/choreographer/professor, made this trip possible Beloved and revered trumpeter, Inaudis Paisan Mallet, plays and ...
Dance, Dance, Dance TV Series, NBC
1978 Dance, Dance, Dance was a ten-part series about professions in dance, 30-minutes each program, produced by Sandra Butler and narrated by Maida Withers, consultant The series was shown in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, DC Each ...
Utah Project
[embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears Bruce Hucko, Photograph “In 1988, I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with a group of artists for a five-week experiment of living and dancing on selected land ...
3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)
[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002 - Maida Withers collaborates with Dan Sternklar, 3D filmmaker and inventor, to create 3D Dance / Future View, a 3D film of an improvised site performance that resulting in the film short (4:04 time) Dan Sternklar, 3D camera specialist ...
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 ...
FareWell: Comments by Media Artist Ayo Okunseinde
[embed]https://vimeocom/7113378[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - Interview of Ayo Okunseinde about his work with Maida presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During our residency Linda Lewett interviewed Maida Withers, choreography/dancer, ...
A Moving Interview, Maida Withers, Argentina
Note: Maida had traveled many times to Brazil, starting with the United Nation's Earth Summit in 1992 She discovered that the price to fly to Argentina was very affordable from Brazil, so that instigated her travels there Lujan Oulton, with ...
Under the Radar: Modern Dance in Russia with Maida Withers
2003 Documentary Film - Interviews about post-modern dance in Russia in 2003 Documentary shot in St Petersburg, Russia Maida Withers was a guest artist for Summer Dance Workshop, OPEN LOOK Linda Lewett, filmmaker, shot the video and Maida Withers asked ...
Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film 3:51)
SEE LARGE PHOTOS on web page FLICKR 2004 - Political dance film, shot first half of Part II of Thresholds Crossed duet of Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora Shot in unique Soviet Era architectural structure, Solovky Island Russia on the White ...
From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things
[embed]http://vimeocom/108531246[/embed] 1967 - Maida created this 16mm film as part of her educational engagement with dance for children Maida was an active participant in the inauguration of the USA national Artist-in-Schools initiative that brought artists into public schools for curriculum development ...
Tzveta II Portraits on Screen (Film 4:37)
https://vimeocom/32234616 2011 In TZVETA II, Ayo Okunseinde combines graphic design and 3D effects in the exploration of the subtlety and action of Tzveta Kassabova's movement in a dynamic pop art short For TZVETA II the filmmaker ventures to the edge of ...
Tzveta I Portraits on Screen (Film 7:42)
Tzveta Kassabova; Adam Peiperl, Photographer 2011 - In TZVETA I, Anthony Gongora creates a portrait of Tzveta Kassabova employing intense imagery to reveal the flow of a beautiful life, layered and complex and driven by movement through imagined spaces, saturated with ...
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 ...
Ledge
[embed]https://vimeocom/100503881[/embed] Video produced by Linda Lewett at Fairfax TV (FCAC) A mythical journey performed by Maida Withers and John Lancaster to an original new music score by composer Michael Willis in a sparse stage set of hanging ropes This is a full ...
Karin Dances With Rings (Film 3:58)
1987 - A video mix of Peiperl's Rings - a kinetic light sculpture in water and polarized light - with an excerpt of movement from Maida Withers' choreography State of the Art, danced by Karin Serio Video recorded in 1987 ...
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 ...
Orbit (Film Short 3:30)
[embed]http://vimeocom/7691282[/embed] 1990 - Orbit, an intriguing duet danced by Greg Simione and Eddie Taketa, filmed during the early period framed by the HIV and AIDS crisis The film is an excerpt, conceptually and in form, from the evening-length stage work, Obsession, ...
Maida I – Portraits on Screen (Film) (2:54)
[embed]http://vimeocom/32236928[/embed] Maida Withers; Ayo Okunseinde, Photographer; Anthony Gongora, Video Maida Withers; Ayo Okunseinde, Photographer 2011 - The camera is turned on Maida Withers in this study of motion and the force of nature by Ayodamola (Ayo) Okunseinde Maida I and Maida II are part ...
Maida II – Portraits on Screen (Film 2:54)
2011 - Film short featuring Maida Withers in a whimsical struggle for artistic enlightenment and risk taking with animation by Callison Slater Shot in the Bella Faccia, Inc television studio as part of Withers' Dance Portraits on Screen Series The concept ...
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 ...
State of the Art
1986 - State of the Art examines the conflict of art and the artist in American society The rapid development of arts management looms as a potential to independence and innovation by the artist Press Release: State of the Art is ...
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, ...
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 (Stage Performance Excerpts / Fairfax Cable, FCAC-TV)
1985 - Four-part evening-length space odyssey (Part I: Departure; Part II: Quest; Part III, Domain; Part IV, Rites/Skylight/and Departure) of choreography that takes place inside a large-scale installation of argon laser beams created by Rockne Krebs and Synclavier II music ...
Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Installation FILM)
2012 - The video is compiled from projected images, a visual installation created for and projected during the evening-length multimedia performance, Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk, choreographed by Maida Withers in collaboration with the Dance Construction Company (Nate Bond, ...
Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Film Short 7:24)
Note: Film Short - site specific project not part of Collision Course aka Pillow Talk choreography for evening length stage work But it was part of the PILLOW CYCLE of dances Maida was invited to present a "site work" for ...
One Minute Wander (Film Short: 00:60)
[embed]http://vimeocom/78919495[/embed] 2000 - Following an interview regarding a dance work-in-progress, Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz, Maida Withers was asked by filmmaker Linda Lewett to extend the interview into a "nature" performance by the creek near Maida's home ...
Data to Dance: Dance of the Auroras-Fire in the Sky
2009 - A fascinating documentary on the creation of Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky - a poetic odyssey through space from the Sun to Earth Showcasing an evening-length performance of dance, music and virtual art, this international project ...
TUK (Tukuhnikivatz): Film (18:04)
This fusion of dance and the environment is an extraordinary journey of eight souls across the majestic breathtaking landscapes of Utah and the Four Corners Area of the Southwest United States - five dancers, two filmmakers, and one photographer reveal ...