Giselle Ruzany was born in New York City and grew up Rio de Janeiro, from age 3 to 23, before returning to the US. She has been immersed in art and culture from a young age while visiting family in Europe. Art and Dance has been part of her life receiving performance and choreographic awards … Continue reading Giselle Ruzany
IN A World Somewhere Where There Are No Repetitions is a poem and visual script created and performed/spoken”live” by Alex Caldiero, performance poet, with dancers improvising as directed by the script, as follows: In a World Somewhere Where There Are No Repetitions is the script/text, typed on legal sized paper. Each dancer carries, reads, and … Continue reading In a World, Somewhere,Where There are NO Repetitions
MAIDA WITHERS AND THE DANCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet (click) HISTORY EXHIBITION – September 23 – October 23, 2022 Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, 1972 to 2022. Timeline / Video … Continue reading LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge
2012- Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was invited to perform at a rock party at an extreme and very large dance club on the DC/Maryland border – Nate Bond, Giselle Ruzany, Maida Withers. The sponsors presented very curious events to the audience in breaks (an opera singer hanging upside down above the audience singing opera), … Continue reading Art Soiree – Club Dancing
2010 – May 10, 17, & 24, 2010: Re-Re Voltaire (Cabaret Voltaire) WPA sponsored a site event on H Street in celebration of their 35th Anniversary that take place in a vacant lot next to Gallery O/H at 1354 H Street NE, WDC. These event were to celebrate their 35th anniversary and also recognize the … Continue reading Re-Re Voltaire – WPA 35th Anniversary – H Street Revitalization
TACIT ENGAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE A joint conference by the ‘Re-‘ Interdisciplinary Network, CRASSH (Center for Research in the arts, Social Services & Humanities and AI (Artificial Intelligence) & Society Journal CAMBRIDGE, UK June 26-28, 2019 MINDFLUCTUATIONS Maida Withers “CONSIDERATION OF A GROUNDBREAKING DANCE SPECTACLE EXPLORING NEURAL CONNECTIONS” MINDFLUCTUATIONS, a bold interactive virtual journey … Continue reading MindFluctuations-AI-performance-talk/
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 ping pong ball if you perceive Erica is telling an UNTRUTH or a … Continue reading No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica
ICEBERGS National Building Museum Washington, DC presents GLACIAL DRIFT PREMIERE / 2016 Cool Evening with ICEBERGS Dance, Music, and Poetry in the Surreal Underwater-World of ICEBERGS GLACIAL DRIFT was one of National Building Museum’s Block Party Late Nights that is part of its big summer installation programming for ICEBERGS designed by James Corner Field Operations … Continue reading ICEBERGS: Glacial Drift
Video, Kennedy Center Archives: http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M6136&type=A December 8, 2014 – Chain of Events …sheer imaginative fallout of movement Presented by Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Date/Time: December 8, 2014 at 6:00 to 6:50 pm, FREE Location: Kennedy Center Theatre Lab; 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC Tickets: FREE Contact: Jane Rabinovitz; JKRabinovitz@Kennedy-Center.org; 202-416-8044 Billy … Continue reading Chain of Events
2014 – In celebration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company’s 40th anniversary, Art Whino presented a Masquerade Ball at Blind Whino: SW Arts Club, full of mystery and surprise. This full sensory experience combined performance art with experimental dance, live music, and a silent art auction where artist will paint Masquerade masks the audience will … Continue reading MASQUERADE BALL – Blind Whino (40th Anniversary Celebration)