Category Archives: Foundation Period (60s to 80s)
Experimental Evening of Music and Dance
Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (dancers) and Pnumbral Raincoast (musicians) perform improvisations in concert at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, an experimental evening of music and dance that features contemporary music pieces and dance/music improvisation Curators: John Driscoll ...
Early Works – 1964 to 1973
Early works -1966 to 1973 (1964 thru 1973) Dance works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as a not-for-profit federally tax-exempt organization in 1974/6 Performers included mature dancers from the Washington, ...
Laser 1 (1971)
(1971) Laser I (Duet) Note: Lasers: In 1917, Einstein proposed the process that makes lasers possible Forty years later (1957) Einstein proposed the process that makes lasers possible Rockne Krebs began exploration of Laser as art in early 1960s Krebs first ...
Pnumbral Raincoast
(February 27, 1974 and February 28, 1974) Program says Thursday/Friday but those dates are Wednesday and Thursday???? Washington Project for the Arts/1227 G Street NW/Washington, DC Program information provided by John Driscoll, 7/6/2025 (physical program, difficult to read so typed information below) Steve ...
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 ...
LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge
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 ...
Take Off
1968 or 1971 (TBD) - Take Off; Airport Radio Tower Sound Score; Choreographed by Maida Withers for six DC women dancers (GW undergraduate dance students) Take Off is a metaphor for life based on the power of the airplane to encourage our ...
Mass – A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to us on the Sabbath
(1972) Mass - A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to Us on the Sabbath: A dance opera Choreography: Maida Withers with Sharron Rose Music: John Driscoll Dance Solo: Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) Dancers/Vocals: GW ...
Psychedelic Dance
(1968-1969) Psychedelic Dance was created by Maida Withers with GW undergraduate dancers performing A new technique involved oil, cake coloring mixed in water, in a clear glass mixing bowl This projection technique was made possible with water, coloring, and oil ...
Essay I: Of the Mind-Essay II: Of the Heart
(1966) Two-part work: Essay I and Essay II, choreography by Maida Withers with select GW dancers, explores the balance and conflict between the impulses "of the mind" and the contrasting interests "of the heart" Essay reveals Withers interest in the ...
Washington Project for the Arts – Performance
(1975 - ) Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW FESTIVAL in 1966 in the skating rink facility in Washington, DC WPA was established as an artist ...
Thin Holes / BYU Residency
1976 - Thin Holes, a new work created during a three week summer dance residency: Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company (Maida Withers, John Bailey, Brook Andrews) and John Driscoll, composer/musician, engaged in a three to four week residency ...
Maida Withers Dance Concert (Celebrates MWDCCo Founding)
1974 - Maida Withers Dance Concert (December 13) Note: MWDCCo applied for federal 501-C-3 tax-exempt status as a non-profit cultural organization in Washington, DC in 1974 See 501-C3 1976 verification document Dance Concert by Maida Withers, Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, included four ...
Early works -1966 to 1973
1964 thru 1973 - Works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (1974) Performers included dancers from the community and MA and BA dance alumni or students at George Washington University ...
Dance / Music Columbus Museum of Art
February 1974 Past Informtion in red deleted: Information on web page Museums https://maidadancecom/works/changing-the-system/ TITLE DELETED FROM THE WEB 1974 - The performance at the Columbus Museum of Art was during the public celebration of the change of the name from Gallery of Fine Arts ...
Dances on Men and Women (Repertory)
(1984) - May 12 The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program presents: Smithsonian Salutes Washington Dance featuring Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company Presented by National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 8:00 pm Retrospective: selection of short duets and quartets created ...
Dance Improvisation Performances
(1972 - present) Starting in 1972, every six to 10 weeks, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews, John Bailey, and GW MA graduate students created dance and movement improvisation events in GW's Building K gymnasium and Building J dance studio spaces and ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
https://vimeocom/90693028 Rehearsal Marvin Center Theatre for performance at Warner Theatre May 9, 1980 [embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Rehearsal - Building K Studio Theatre for performance in 4/27/1979; https://vimeocom/90679290/ (1979)Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move Don Zuckerman Photos for Catching Butterflies by Dennis DeLoria, Washington, DC "Fast paced dance of a ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses-2013
2013) November 14, 15, 16 An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on George Washington University dancers and performed on DanceWorks November 14, 15, 16, 2013 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Originally choreographed by Maida Withers ...
Time Dance: Found Audience – Found Space (1977)
(1977)- Date ? This version of Time Dance was an adaptation of dancers performing (staging) selected segments of choreography from the stage work, Time Dance, on the steep steps leading down to the Potomac River behind the Lincoln Memorial The ...
Time Dance (1984)
https://vimeocom/106383942 https://vimeocom/92363361 (1984) June 14 Restaging choreography of 1976 version of Time Dance for performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre The square was adapted to a very large diamond rather than the original square space at Mt Vernon Hand Chapeland many other ...
From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things
[embed]http://vimeocom/108531246[/embed] 1967 - Maida created this 16mm film as part of her educational engagement with dance for children Maida was an active participant in the inauguration of the USA national Artist-in-Schools initiative that brought artists into public schools for curriculum development ...
Dance/Sound Events: Tin Tabernacle Series
1974 (September 27 & 29; October 11, 12, and 19 / Five different Events) Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented five evenings, Dance/Sound events, the Tin Tabernacle Series, a project with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll, in a very large and dome-shaped building, ...
For Verabel
1977 - "For Verable, a female duet created in recognition of the separation and eventual divorce of two of my (Maida's) dearest Mormon friends, Verabel Call Cluff and Tony Cluff, parents of children, good friends of my children" The duet ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance I
1977 - Give the Dancers Castenets: The first evening-length collaboration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company with performance poet, Chasen Gaver, Dance Project, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC with Sculptor, Edward LeBoe; Architect, Terry Rosenheck Chasen Gaver wrote new poems and selected ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance II
1978 - Baby It's About Time! an absurd and outrageous social commentary event performed by dancers with Washington, DC's most controversial performance poet, Chasen Gaver Chasen Gaver performed his poems sometimes using small hand-held instruments Performing in cabaret style, he ...
White Mansions – Holy Rood Cemetery
John Bailey, JoAnn Sellars, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews (1975) September 13 - 14 (Sat/Sun) check dates, Washington Project for the Arts and Holly Rood Cemetery - newspaper date) WHITE MANSIONS (Date to be determined - WPA archive?) The first performance took place at ...
Time Dance (1976)
1976 - Quartet based on structure of pulse and accumulation The dance begins with finger snapping the pulse and dancers continue the finger snapping off and on during the first 10 minutes The pulse appeared in the movement or as ...
Phase Tracing
(1978) - Phase Tracing, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist In the performance, dancer's movements make inaudible sound audible with movements of the body or movement of silver strips of polyethylene/mylar strips hung from ceiling ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/73810026?turnstile=0zpz9a2jXNn299ShkYpeKgKxopwLkrDEMfy0N_-nUWou-ukgLATliY8WHCEjDlii9jii940e3hoq0OpdHM0zY_1p-5-eJZJXGbmsKny17FLD6CybKnEuzMitoasthirRQ43iEK_WPodvYhdsRreQNNa3EPyZzpRelpb64ln_fOi_5RqQQk7t9J3r8s0Pf9qBd8kBIJr-8-hi6S7BikyNouoSEZR7le_25oJbeJlVAVTNtp-8Y_YFfpl_2wimzHuO43Ymu-YK7kddTxQPAAMMkJtw0VEkFKNwacORTc_GFNr5f4P-SsBlCnnbM4GvqswN7fnStW3Sw7hyxzihdVhWXKihptUUJJJ_sR2y0FGi4lUqApIu4Cufx7YVRx6HNI64ha5XIRiyKgDObXe2w4Bb3Ecy_6v9bMCaCuq7OjTB9g7XDAho13g0CmzlQcV_TVJI7Fu8ixmdYvZ0XcegVQu2xoZJr4gEOQfgF5eq8aX5vIzS10An3hnmjBcAGPhXGufONn0XfTDmoXYADLG2zSHKUyNJLGhWCNbUN5iQ-YTXWX2D34E0wm-BzbhNYPLEPKbWowss_3CzIOIfHU0Q6vocf6iTAJp3MqOKxcX2aCREg-flXaRwBJYm3ucW7j_WPE_OWF9rY9y6sABYUIEoQ9__7mCsWwiYd34QaOw7mSrWVnqJ0TXO46mv-fZsaUICFOTZAcg60s8T47h4TOeyxskkgRUVec6SakF8jxLSba-eGxhAlDAkMcNIT7ieaMx2C2mLosAwdzem0ugSmVAcspwv9qWLRcSselSzMxmZQIkI9a0Npw26ZC-e5jimY-qQE-H9lanC53QG39b0OQRMVtLHcKiyq9qWvR_lVhejlbwvkt20czgjQIe9knpAQ4s0j0TY4Qa85b9cfc689ab3bb4cfefff5d7c1cfaf79df9eb0f8bdc6abaf4183da59c17133[/embed] (Costumes in this video are simple leotards I believe that was the original costume, but the film says 1975must have been when the video was produced/posted???) 1974 Original Version: Evening length performance – nostalgia coupled with absurdity ...
Bog Works
BOG Works: Maida Withers, dancer @ WPA (no existing photos of homemade speaker installation) Photo: Adam Peiperl BOG WORKS: John Driscoll Instruments @ WPA BOG WORKS: John Driscoll Instruments @ WPA 1975 - Friday, August 15 Home-Made Speakers and Dance Program: Installation performance with MWDCCo ...