Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet

Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer

(2008)
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage, a riveting “wake up call!”
Alex and Maida have a substantive history of working together (see collaborators page below).  For FareWell – Hell-O, two daring and seasoned artists spontaneously collaborated.  Alex, configuring his brilliant text, creating new text, while projecting his writing onto the background of the performance space. Maida performing her solo with freedom to elaborate and alter the choreography and expressive response to text and Alex performance.  Maida and Alex were interacting “live” with known material while discovering the unknown.  The performance was passionate and intense in the small theater space with close proximity to the audience.

Maida adapted FareWell – To The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! while keeping interaction between herself and Alex as he improvised on his writings, passion driven with depth and vulnerability.

Maida has deep respect for Alex as a philosophy professor but even more for his love of words and his ability to twist and destroy expectations with his poetic manipulations.
“Performing with Alex has an unexpected ecstasy,” Maida Withers

Maida includes her comments about Fare Well here since there is no known video record available from the work – Fare Well and Hell-O.

https://maidadance.com/collaborator/alex-caldiero/
https://maidadance.com/collaborator/maida-withers/