Category Archives: Eras

Embrace the Moment

Embrace the Moment is a beautiful, interactive, female duet created by Jen Clark Stone and Megan Thompson, with Maida Withers  The "responsive" duet premiered September ?, 2023 for the OPENING EVENT for LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge, an ...

In a World, Somewhere,Where There are NO Repetitions

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 ...

Wesleyan University – Music and Dance Residency

Maida Withers and John Driscoll were guest artists for a music and dance residency at Wesleyan University, June 10 to June ?, 1980   Students and the guest artists created work at various site locations on campus  Students and guest artists ...

Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk: Brazil Street Festival

Visões Urbanas - 2013 During a dance notation conference in Mexico (I remember it as Rio de Janeiro, but that is under discussion) after Maida performed a solo, she watched from the wings as a mature female, a stranger named  Mirtes ...

PAMYATATY – UKRAINE

Note:  PAM'YATATY DANCE FILMS INTRODUCTION: MAIDA WITHERS  Click INTRODUCTION to view Maida Withers at Taras Shevchenko Memorial Park in Washington, DC -  remarks presented at Ukraine dance site film showings June 4, 2025, Lviv, Ukraine, and June 22, 2025, Kyiv, ...

WPA – Early Works

WPA - Early Works  (Washington Project for the Arts) 1974 Maida involvement with Washington Project for the Arts as a new multi-disciplinary organization in Washington, DC established by Alice Denny, facilitated the Dance Construction Company rehearsing  and performing in the WPA ...

Apocalypse Fatigue

  12-minute live performance in Bunker Fridays, Washington, DC, May 2, 2025 Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time in the history of America,  to speak openly about Apocalypse Fatigue​! Maida Withers, legendary dancer, choreographer, activist performs “live” at  Bunker ...

TOUCH-2004-Arkhangelsk-Russia

TOUCH 2004 Festival 12 - 16 July, Arkhangelsk, Russia https://nikolayshchetnevwixsitecom/nik-s/ https://vimeocom/6880178 International Festival of Contemporary Dance Performances: Performances: "Thresholds Crossed" - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Washington, DC Accents - Break dance group TOP9 (St Petersburg, Russia) Kannon Dance Company (St Petersburg, Russia) "Identification of Movement" Other Dance Theatre ...