Category Archives: Films
Data to Dance: (Film) Dance of the Auroras
https://vimeocom/5611892 Web Page: maidadancecom/works/data-to-dance-dance-of-the-auroras/ (2009) Data to Dance: (Film) Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky (28:30) A magical documentary film eloquently reveals the relationship of science and the wonder of Earth's Auroras through the arts of dance and music Data to ...
SandS CycleS – Meditation Video Art Installation
[embed]https://vimeocom/7692794[/embed] (1995) February 20 - March 3 University of Utah Union Gallery, Olpin Union Building: Sands Cycles Meditation Art Installation - Verabel Cluff, film, Maida Withers, dance The installation provides a meditation space with a Zen quality to feature the stunning video, SANDS ...
Light Suite
(1987) (18:30 min) Light Suite: Rings, Dunes, Wall Floating - polarized light sculptures video by Adam Peiperl combining choreography in works by Maida Withers (Mentioned in Dance Construction Company Spring 1989 Newsletter) Currently researching to locate "Wall Floating" Maida Withers thinks ...
Performatica – Film & Interviews
Performática is an international contemporary dance and movement arts forum based in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, primarily associated with the Universidad de Amercas Puebla & UDLAP It acts as a hub for international exchange, featuring workshops, performances, and roundtable discussions focused ...
Tukuhnikivatz / TUK – Films
In Summer of 1996, Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, Washington, DC, collaborated with filmmaker, James Byrne, New York City, during a six-week residency in southeastern Utah creating and filming dance on unique, challenging land sites Dancers improvised and performed ...
Dance Film – ITVS Sampler
(2001 - 2012) Film Sampler - (Independent Television Service) GRANT - Not selected Sample for proposed film by MWDCCo for documentary film ITVS (Independent Television Service) is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public ...
UKRAINE – PAMYATATY – Dance & War Project
(2025) June 4 & June 22 PAMYA'TATY - UKRAINE - Dance & War - Presentations: site works, documentary film - video presentations Lviv June 4, 2025 and Kyiv, June 22, 2025 PAMYA'TATY - a project proposed by Anton Ovchinnikov, Ukraine, ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
https://vimeocom/1081479749/https://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 / ...
Ascenso – Object-A Gallery – Buenos Aries
2014 - Maida was invited to present a showing of selected dance films for a university public seminar in Buenos Aires, Argentina Ms Silvina Szperling, an important Argentinian dance filmmaker, curator, journalist, and Professor at Universidad Nacional de las Artes ...
Dance Portraits on Screen – 2021
[embed]https://vimeocom/544797357[/embed] (2021) Dance Portraits on Screen (dance film) (14:42) (2021) April 22 Dance Portraits on Screen - 2021; George Washington University public presentation, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design; Zoom Broadcast Film by Maida Withers (concept, ...
Performatica: (FareWell) Tres-Dias-en-Cholula
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] (the above film will be replaced by a 2025 update by Linda Lewett ON MRW Z DRIVE LINDA TRANSFER2025 (2009) "Documentary Film (29:20) Cholula, Mexico during Performátic, an International Forum of Contemporary Dance and the Art of Movement in 2009 in ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film (39:58)
"I’ve always loved the amplitude of your dancing - so luscious and fierce, muscular and sexy And then the time travel between ancient places and modern digitization" Marta Renzi, Filmmaker [embed]https://vimeocom/468693246[/embed] "I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with ...
VISÕES URBANAS 2020, Brazil – DANCING IN LANDSCAPES
VISÕES URBANAS 2020 - DANCING IN POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES "VULNERABILITIES AND POWER - CONNECTING REALITIES AND LANDSCAPES" WASHINGTON, DC - KIEV - SÃO PAULO Program: Film presentation / conversation / questions / dialogue with Maida (USA), Anton (Ukraine), Mirtes and Ederson (Brazil), international festival ...
Naked Truth – Tzveta Solo With Film Installation
[embed]https://vimeocom/73873364/[/embed] (2012) May 5 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, Washington, DC: An evening of diverse dances by dance artists, friends and ...
DANCE VIDEO EXCERPTS – 1974 to 2006
Excerpts from DANCES - historical video footage: 1974 to 2006 (17:10) Second edition - updated technology Included in this edition are excerpts of the Russian/American project, Thresholds Crossed (2006) Below: Excerpts of video from select dances from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company archives, 1974 ...
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 – Experimental Film (15:00)
Sky Cathedrals (Film 29:56) https://vimeocom/105145824 (1986) - Collaboration of Maida Withers, choreographer, with Adam Peiperl, Kinetic Light Sculptor Maida's choreography created for Laser Dance (Quest, Domain/Dialogue, other) is combined with kaleidoscope images by Adam Peiperl, Kinetic Light Sculptor Funded by GWU UFF ...
TUK I: Trailer (2:29)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=HKlR5x0f8EA&t=23s[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/99726485[/embed] https://vimeocom/99726485 (Trailer) TUK - FILM (1:37) WEAK FORMATTING TUK I - FILM (2:29) Award winning Film (Video and Trailer) Maida Withers and Verabel Call Cluff, with the assistance of Joe Pachak, Cow Canyon Trading Post, Bluff, Utah, drove us in his truck to ...
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! - a shortened version of the evenng-length work was performed by Maida Withers for Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y ...
Dance Portraits on Screen (Film)
2011 - Dance Portraits on Screen Concept for creating dance film shorts, portraits on screen, began by MWDCC0 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, ...
Trans Action – ART LIVES HERE OR NOT!
(2014) September 20 8:30 pm "Creative Placemaking Initiative Takes Site-Specific Dance into Hyattsville, Maryland" TRANS ACTION! "Art Lives Here OR Not" celebrates Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company’s pivotal role in the 1970s dance revolution that became known as site-specific ...
Perfect Moment @ WPA – (Film 9:48) Mapplethorpe Exhibit
[embed]http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=EjAyDfRVYTc[/embed] Documentary Film: Linda Lewett, Producer, Editor; Matt Dibble, Camera; Maida Withers, solicit interviews (1989) August 2 Documentary - WPA Mapplethorpe Exhibition video taped at the height of the NEA censorship controversy Footage appeared on Oprah! and on newscasts across the country, ...
Nomad Dancer – FILM Short (3:15)
https://vimeocom/473593639 2007 - (3:15 min) (09/04/2007) a narrated video short by Maida about life and her dances around the issues of "live art," excerpts of 6 site-specific projects: Utah Spirit-Place, Spirit-Planet, Tukuhnikivatz; Halda a mound of waste; Hekuras; White Mansions For Nomad ...
Solovky Island, Gulag Residency, Russia
[embed]https://vimeocom/429686550[/embed] Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora dance in the 14th Century Monestery (dungeon) - Linda Lewett, film 2004 - (July 7 - Summer - 3 weeks) Solovky is known for the astonishing 14th Century monastery and man-made rivers There islands housed one ...
Cuba – Santiago de Cuba: In the Eye of the Beholder (Short Film 10:00)
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593674[/embed] 2007 - February 5 to 10 Maida Wither was in Cuba for five days when Fidel Castro was in power During that time she captured life and culture in Cuba on her video camera This informal film short reveals Maida's ...
Cuba Today – Havana – 2007 (Documentary Short 8:39)
2007 - February 11 Havana, Cuba - Video by Maida Withers, visitor from USA [embed]https://vimeocom/473593772[/embed] Documentary Short (8:39) Maida visited Havana during her stay in Santiago de Cuba studying the culture, especially the dance and music While there, she made this simple ...
Africa Comeback Women-Film, Meru, Kenya (9:40)
20 or more beautiful avi videos of women and men in Meru (see in Photos hard drive on the "Z" Drive MRW [embed]https://vimeocom/473593791/[/embed] Film: 2007 (09:40) - January 26 - February 18 During a second trip to Kenya, Africa, Maida visited Meru ...
Cuba – Trumpet Man – Inaudis Paisan Mallet (Film Short 7:08)
2007 - February 5 to 10 Maida visited Cuba for ten days to study the dance/text/ritual with the Cutumba Ballet Folklorico Santiago de Cuba Jim Lepore, dancer/choreographer/professor, George Mason University, made this trip possible Beloved and revered trumpeter, Inaudis Paisan Mallet, ...
Dance, Dance, Dance TV Series, NBC-TV
1978 Dance, Dance, Dance was a ten-part series on NBC-TV, Washington, DC, about professions in dance, 30-minutes each program, produced by Sandra Butler and narrated by Maida Withers, dance specialist (dancer, choreographer, teacher, filmmaker) The series was shown in Chicago, ...
Utah Project / Research – Residency
"As solar rays eclipse a desert turret, birds of prey, wings outstretched in flight, emerge in silhouette against a rocky ledge These, however are not natural canyon country sky dwellers They are members of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company creating ...
3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)
[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002/2003 - 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 resulted in the film short (4:04 time) Dan Sternklar, 3D camera specialist ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film Installation (60:00)
Tukuhnikivatz Film Installation: 01:03:45 Editor - Stefani Altomare-Sese 1996 and 1997 - Tukuhnikivatz: Film Installation (60:00) created for projection on the 60' x 60' Band Shell as part of the evening-length multimedia production Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz ...
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, ...
Obsession – Suite Elvis Solo – Maida Withers
https://vimeocom/90645088 Excerpt from evening-length documentary video - Maida Withers performs what was referred to as "Elvis Solo" in the evening-length dance Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex(1986) December 4, 5, 6 Elvis solo (nickname) Publick Playhouse Maida Withers was featured, in Obsession ...
Obsession & Interview FCAC-TV
1987 - Obsession: Interview and extensive footage/film of live performance about the stage work and sex as subject Maida Withers, on camera, intimately and deeply describes her dance work, Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex, FCAC (Fairfax Cable Access Corporation, ...
Ascenso: Moving Interview, Maida Withers, Argentina
(2014) Date TBD (check videos/film) Buenos Aires, Argentina: Maida had traveled many times to Brazil, starting with the United Nation's Earth Summit in 1992 In 2014 Maida realized the price to fly to Argentina was very affordable from Brazilso that inspired ...
Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life (Exhibition)
April 13 - April 21, 2006 - An exhibition at the Dimock Gallery in Washington, DC - a retrospective of photographs, video, and costumes that celebrates 35 years of innovative works by Washington's noted groundbreaking dancer and choreographer, Maida Withers ...
Under the Radar: (Film) Russia Interviews
https://vimeocom/1122261556/ (change - allow download at MRW vimeo) (2003) Under the Radar (Film) Interviews (5:30) Notes say it was published in 2006 Perspectives on modern and post-modern dance in Russia since perestroika Linda Lewett, on camera with Maida Withers, guest artist/teacher ...
Thresholds Crossed – (Film 3:51) Gulag / Art Angar
[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? (2004) (Film Short: 3:51) Thresholds Crossed / (Gulag) Art Angar - Political dance film short shot on ...
Film / From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things
[embed]http://vimeocom/108531246[/embed] 1967 - Film / From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things created for educational engagement with "dance for children" Maida was an active participant in selection of artist and the the inauguration of the USA national Artist-in-Schools initiative that brought ...
Tzveta 11 (Film): Dance Portraits on Screen
https://vimeocom/32234616 (2011) TZVETA 11: Dance Portraits on Screen (Film) Ayo Okunseinde, editor, 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 ...
TZVETA 1 (Film): Dance Portraits on Screen
[embed]https://vimeocom/32229674[/embed] (2011) TZVETA 1 (Film) - Dance Portraits on Screen (Film) 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 ...
Turf
[embed]https://vimeocom/89532130[/embed] (1983) March 24, 25, 26 Turf Premiere (Dancer as Olympian) (40 minutes) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater, Washington, DC An evening length performance on Olympians (including women) created in honor of the 1984 Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, ...
LEDGE – (Film) Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/100503881[/embed] Ledge - Fairfax Cable TV - FCAC Program "Then Shinov loosed an arrow that flew straight but missed its mark and went plowing about the face of the earth in every conceivable direction, digging deep gorges and canyons, raising up mountains, ...
Karin Dances With Rings (Film 3:58)
1987 - Video/Film (3:58): A video mix of Adam Peiperl's Rings - a kinetic light sculpture in water and polarized light - featuring an excerpt from Withers' choreography State of the Art, danced by Karin Serio, solo figure Video recorded ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky
[embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] Trailer, Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky, TRAILER, Tania Fraga (05:00) 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 ...
Orbit (Film Short – 3:31)
[embed]http://vimeocom/7691282[/embed] 1990 - Orbit (3:30 min) intriguing, sensual, 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 ...
MAIDA 1 (Film): Dance Portraits on Screen
[embed]http://vimeocom/32236928[/embed] Maida Withers / Dancer Anthony Gongora/ Photographer Ayo Okunseinde / Video (2011) MAIDA 1 (02:37) (Film) - Dance Portraits on Screen The camera is turned on Maida Withers in this study of motion and the force of nature by Ayodamola (Ayo) Okunseinde, ...
MAIDA 11 (Film): Dance Portraits on Screen
[embed]https://vimeocom/31915980/[/embed] (2011) MAIDA 11 (02:54) (Film) - Dance Portraits on Screenn Film short featuring Maida Withers in a whimsical struggle for artistic enlightenment and risk taking with animation by Callison Slater Shot in Bella Faccia, Inc television studio on the actual green ...
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz
"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 sites Each day we understood better how to join with the forces ...
State of the Art
"Withers' inspired 'State' " / THIS WEEK, The Washington Post (1986) May 15, 16, 17 @ 8 pm - State of the Art (premiere) - Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC "Dance and business: first the embrace then the death?" State ...
Sands Cycles – Film
The film and photographs were shot on Coral Sand Dunes State Park, Kanab, Utah, birthplace of Withers, and on White Sands National Park Service of New Mexico (the worlds largest gypsum dunefield) https://vimeocom/7692794?fl=pl&fe=cm (1992) SandS CycleS (Film) (28:40)SandS CycleS is a poetic ...
Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex
[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] OBSESSION: AMERICA'S OBSESSION WITH SEX Early Work-in-Progress - First Performance: Publick Playhouse - Maryland National Capital Park (1986) December 4, 5, 6 Obsession - A "made in USA" look at sex (locate video of Maida Withers dancing the Elvis "solo" - Blue ...
FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise
FareWell to the End of the World As We Know It or Dancing Your Way to Paradise "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan (2008) [embed]https://vimeocom/6643827[/embed] Above - 2009 Performatica International Festival, Puebla/Cholula, Mexico https://vimeocom/6643827 [embed]https://vimeocom/17018474[/embed] Above: Dance ...
Collision Course – a.k.a Film (Installation)
2012 - Evening length film, featuring poet Alexander Caldiero and surreal visual images of clouds, flying pillows, other The stunning video is compiled from projected images, a visual installation created for and projected during the evening-length multimedia performance, Collision Course ...
Pillow Talk (Film) 7:24
(2011) Collision Course (Film) Pillow Talk (7:24) October 21 This intriguing film short features three estranged characters, Nate Bond, Anthony Gongora, and Giselle Ruzany, dancers with body parts wrapped in large white bed pillows secured to body parts with packaging tape Pillows ...
One Minute Wander – Film Short
[embed]http://vimeocom/78919495[/embed] 2000 - (August) 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 ...
Data to Dance
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)
Muley Point, Utah - Photo by Bruce Hucko (2011) TUK (Tukuhjnikivatz) FILM (18:04) A brilliant fusion of dance and the environment, TUK is an extraordinary journey of eight souls across the majestic breathtaking landscapes of Utah and the Four Corners Area ...