Note:  Maida had traveled many times to Brazil, starting with the United Nation’s Earth Summit in 1992.  She discovered that the price to fly to Argentina was very affordable from Brazil, so that instigated her travels there. Lujan Oulton, with her retired American businessman father, built a museum that was used for the duet improvisation, below.  Lujan is a cultural producer specializing in experimental and artgames.  There was a “high tech” group that included Maida in their experiments when she was there.  Maximiliana Wille, pianist and filmmaker for the University dance program, housed Maida and was very instrumental in her projects there: A.Mov.Er organization.  (2014)

MOVING INTERVIEW

Web page in Argentina

Includes video and descriptions:  https://productoraobjetoa.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/entrevista-performatica-a-maida-withers/

Original Footage

Original unedited footage – Maida improvised talking and dancing  as Arceli Marquez, asked questions. The footage here is unedited.  It contains the total interview (55:00 minutes)

Three minute version

YouTube document interview:

(short 3:00 interview by Maxi Willi )  3:00

Entrevista Performática a Maida Withers

The video below shows the technical crew and then Maida improvising starting with, “I am a desert Rat! I was born…” Maida goes on to talk about living her life including ideas of spontaneity, embarrassment, shame, all the spectrum of human condition. This edit includes cameras to give a perspective of the process, as well as improv with dancer on the stairs, some verbal explorations as well as interactions with technology and music.

04:20 footage of Maida in a MOVING interview with Arceli Marquez, dancer in Argentina.
Source: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tffchbn378ms47p/maida.wmv

2014 – “A Moving Interview…” Maida Withers participated in an interview sponsored by A.Mov.Er and Lujan Oulton, Objeto-á Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Maida was in Argentina following the MindFluctuations residency in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Institute of M

“Ascenso…una improvisación”, es un momento entre dos bailarinas. En su paso por Buenos AIres, la bailarina y coreógrafa norteamericana Maida Withers realizó diferentes actividades artísticas. Junto Araceli Marquez, “Ascenso…” es una de las producciones conjuntas entre A.MO.VER y Maida Withers.

A.Mov.Er Comments:
“Maida Withers. Dancer, choreographer, performer, visual and multimedia artist … mother.”

“The collective AMOVER take this brief stay in Argentina of Maida, to create this work, bordering between performatic + interview and documentary. leaving the common place, responses involve the body that gives movement to the words … talks about the creative process, the use of, and research into new technologies. art as a way of life. Site in specific… among other things. Her admirable vitality, is a source of inspiration for new generations.”

Maida’s comments:
Maida answered questions related to art and technology in a two hour interview for A.Mov.Er. The request was to talk about her artistic process and insight into the merging of dance and technology.

Maida spoke and moved in a stream-of-consciousness fashion while being interviewed by Arceli Marquez, Argentine dancer.  The interview was videotaped and the “live” video was immediately  projected back into the performance space of Maida and Arceli. The video was interfacing with the “Isadora” technology program altering the images.

Project organizers and video artists:  Maximiliana Wille,  Adrian Salinas, and Lujan Oulton.

More Links:

www.objeto-a-com.ar   

www/amover.me

Entrevista Performática a Maida Withers

Web page includes photos of the residency.

See Ascenso (maidadance.com/works/ascenso.
Improvisation performance, film short,

What the press is saying

"En su visita a la Argentina, Maida Withers directora de Dance Construction Company, realizó una entrevista perfomática con el colectivo artístico A.Mo.Ver y Objeto à." Melina Masnatta