October 30 to November 3, 2023, Maida Withers was artist-in-residence at Brigham Young University, sponsored by the Dance Program, and organized by Marin Leggat Roper, tenured Professor and Director of Performance of Dance at BYU.

The residency featured:
*Presentation of the public lecture, Preserving and Transforming Culture through the prestigious Brigham Young University, Kennedy Center Lecture Series, directed by Quinn Mecham.  (find the https, online; include the lecture in the web page/archive)
*Guest lecture/interactive workshop with directed improvisation for students
*Guest lecture on post-modern dance for Dance History students
*Rehearsing with students with guest poet Allisandru (Alex) Caldiero in preparation in improvisation for a public presentation
*Presentation of In a World, Somewhere, Where There are NO Repetitions, BYU dance students performing with Alex Caldiero, performance poet and author, in the BYU Museum of Art, stunning atrium, with support of Janalee (Janice) Emmer, Friday, November 3, 2023.

“It was a great honor for me to return for the second time as a guest artist with the Brigham Young University Dance Program.  With other students, I had actively promoted the offering of a dance major at BYU.   I graduate in 1954 with the first class to receive the BS in Dance from Brigham Young University…..a great honor for me.  Geraldine Glover, new dance faculty, sponsored forward thinking, radical innovators, post nodern dance artists in residencies at Brigham Young University including Anna Halprin,  Eric Hawkins and experimental composer Lucia Dlugoszewski, others.  Interacting with these futurist thinkers inspired my study with others in the USA and abroad (Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Lucas Hoving, others, and abroad with Mary Wigman, Germany, and encouraged my life work in dance abroad including  research, residencies and creative projects in Russia, Ukraine, Norway, Finland, Croatia, Japan, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and others.  Brigham Young University was the beginning of my intense work known as an activist, post-modern revolutionary.”  Maida Withers