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Gloucester New Arts Festival, performances and art events in the coastal city of Gloucester, Massachusetts, created and produced by Sarah Slifer, dance artist and educator (2006):
The New Arts Festival featured art and performance on the street and in various locations in the community of Gloucester, including theatre performances.

Sarah Slifer, founder and director of the Festival, performed and toured with MWDCCo internationally in Brazil and Korea.  She is a strong voice for contemporary art and performance in the community of Gloucester, MA

Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented two works at the New Arts Festival in Gloucester, Massachusetts:

ICE
Maida Withers and Vincent Cacalano performed  an improvised duet, ICE
 in the refrigerator/storage  for large blocks of ice used by fishermen on their boats. Gloucester is a fishing harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts on the sea.  6′ long ice bars were stacked high in the freezing cold refrigerator where Maida and Vincent performed —  ice for seamen stacked high..preparing for fishermen to keep their catch each day on the sea. 

For the ICE performance, Maida held in her raised hand a tiny open umbrella, an umbrella that often comes with a drink at the bar.  The umbrella was so tiny and so delicate…..a rescue for Maida in her “frigid” situation while performing in the ICE storage room.

For “ICE,” 2 or 3 audience members joined the dancers in the “ICE” cold refrigerator and, generally, stayed less than 20 minutes in the ICE HOUSE due to the frigid temperature.

Rage (2006) A dramatic solo, a political statement, by Maida Withers about women.  As usual, there is a whimsical aspect in the dramatic dialogue with the audience.

Sarah was a student at the George Washington University.  She participated as a dancer in LEGACY: Fifty Years of Dance on the Edge gala celebration of Withers life and works in the Flagg Building, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, 2023.
Maida Withers, RAGE