Category Archives: Stage Works
No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica
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 ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses (2013 – original 1974)
2013 - An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on GW dancers and performed on DanceWorks November 14, 15, 16, 2013 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Originally choreographed by Maida Withers with founders of the Dance ...
Electronic Bodies – Dance and Music Improvisation
2013 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Anthony Gongora, Giselle Ruzany, Maida Withers and guest, Felipe Oyarzun (Chile) were joined by experimental composers/musicians, John Driscoll, New York, and Steve Hilmy, Washington, DC, to present Electronic Bodies This FREE improvised performance ...
Chroma
2013 - Late Night Expressions at Joe's Emporium for various art forms (dance, comedy, performance art) MWDCCo dance and music Improvisation performance with a script centered on lime green and orange objects (chair, marley strip, electrical cord, others) that was danced ...
Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
2012 - A provocative dance theater work from associated memories, dreams, and nightmares, an off-beat yet delightful spectacle about the fiction and reality of LUV for the digital age This evening-length multimedia dance theater work about LUV for the digital ...
InVoluntary Encounters
2012 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and guest artist choreographers and dancers from NYC, Boston and Japan create an interactive event of dance, live video feed, film, and electronic music that features improvisations by choreographers who perform and a ...
Families Are Forever – Part III: Veiled Threat
2012 - Veiled Threat is the name given to Part III of Families are Forever Veiled threat reveals the delicacy of the relationships in families The familiarity of family members gives the members power based on the intimate knowledge they ...
Naked Truth
2010 - Naked Truth, an exquisite, meticulously designed trio choreographed by Maida Withers with dancers Anthony Gongora, Tzveta Kassaabova, and Giselle Ruzany - three seasoned and deeply dedicated international dance artists Original music is composed and performed live by Steve ...
Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (USA)
2010 - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest was first created in São Paulo, Brazil (2002) with Brazilian dancers during a three-week residency The version presented in Washington, DC maintained some of the thematic movement materials, the music and several ...
Fare Well – Rising Tide
2009 - a dance work that is part of the Fare Well project, a series of several dances, examines the rising of our oceans and the pollution of the seas and waterways with plastic water bottles and other debris and ...
FareWell – To The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise!
2008 - "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan An evening-length performance by pioneering choreographer Maida Withers, Steve Hilmy, electronic musician/composer, and Ayodamola (Ayo) Okunseinde, new media artist Fare Well brings insight and ...
Fare Well and Hell-O
2008 - Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero performed live on stage with Maida Withers Alex speaks his thoughts as poetry as he writes text that is projected as a backdrop for the dance, poetry performance Maida adapted Fare Well - To The ...
Fare Well: Parched Earth – Remembrances from Tomorrow (Kenya, Africa)
2008 - A dance project that took place in Nairobi, Kenya at the GoDown Center for the Arts The dance work, Parched Earth, was created in collaboration with nine Kenyan dancers (six men and three women) during a three-week residency ...
Fare Well – Tipping Point
2008 - Multimedia solo originally created by Maida Withers, choreographer for Jadee Mitchell, GW dancer, that was subsequently performed by Withers on international tours Tipping Point refers to the crisis of global warming demonstrated most vividly in the Arctic and ...