Category Archives: Foundation Period (60s to 80s)

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 ...

Laser Dance (Stage Performance Excerpts / Fairfax Cable, FCAC-TV)

1985 - Four-part evening-length space odyssey (Part I: Departure; Part II: Quest; Part III, Domain; Part IV, Rites/Skylight/and Departure)  of choreography that takes place inside a large-scale installation of argon laser beams created by Rockne Krebs and Synclavier II music ...

Bog Works

1975 - Installation performance with MWDCCo and John Driscoll, electronic composer/musician/sculptor, in the open theater space of Washington Project for the Arts in the earliest location on G Street, Washington, DC  Bog Works featured an installation of  unique homemade loudspeakers ...