Category Archives: Event

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 ...

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 ...

TOUCH – 2003-Arkhangelsk-Russia

TOUCH 2003 FESTIVAL 12 - 14  July, Arkhangelsk, Russia International Festival of Contemporary Dance https://nikolayshchetnevwixsitecom/nik-s/ Dance Performances: «Aurora Borealis» - Dance Construction Company (Washington DC/ USA) Kannon Dance Company (S Petersburg/ Russia) Children dance theater «Domino» (Korjazma, Arkhangelsk region/ Russia) Group «La Jounes» (Arkhangelsk/ ...

FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)

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Performatica: Tres-Dias-en-Cholula

  2009 Performatica - Tres Dias en Cholula  Film  (30:00) by Linda Lewett, completed in 2021 [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] Film by Linda Lewett; Producer Maida Withers and Maida Withers Dance Construction Company Performatica occurred in 2009; video was completed in 2021 by Linda Lewett Artists Maida Withers, ...

Dance of the Auroras – Part III – Magnetic Storm Seen From Above

2000  St Petersburg, Russia (April 2000)  Residency with Kannon Dance School and Company, St Petersburg, Russia •   Maida Withers created Part III Magnetic Storm of Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky with Iwona Olszowska, dancer from Poland, and ...

GW Dance Technique as Performance

[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] In 2017, five dancers, students at George Washington University, studied with Maida Withers, to explore a course, Dance Technique as Performance The course was divided into four segments After three weeks of studying movement and movement phrases, the students performed ...

Thresholds Crossed – Norilsk Performance

Luba Kusovnikova, producer and intellect, in Russia invited Maida Withers to attend an indigenous peoples conference in Norilsk, Russia and present a section of Thresholds Crossed as part of the conference  Russian Dancers, Konstantin Grouss and Anastasia Oleynik perform a ...

Thresholds Crossed_TsEKh Residence, Part I

Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow - work in progress (2005) TsEKh International Summer School Residency to create and present Part I with 5 Russian and 6 American dancers, Moscow, Russia (July 4-24, 2005)  Elena Tupsevya was instrumental in our holding ...