Category Archives: Classes

Wesleyan University – Music and Dance Residency

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

GW Dance Technique as Performance

[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) Date 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 ...

United Nation’s Earth Summit Eco ’92 Brazil

United Nation's Earth Summit (Eco '92) "Maida Withers, uma das grandes representatantes da eco-active danca" (1992) June 3 - June 14 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Events prior to start and continuation of UN Earth Summit, Eco '92: OMAME Projecto (1992) (May 12 to June ...

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 ...

TOUCH 3 International Festival Arkhangelsk, Russia

2004 - For TOUCH 3 (July 11 to 16) International Modern Dance Festival in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Produced and Directed by Nikolais Shchetnev  We were honored to be  part of this  exciting and diverse professional festival MWDCCo  directed an original site-specific ...

Rolling Thunder / “Transformation”

[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Dance for the Earth  (Six dances including Rolling Thunder) "Intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth  The gift, the knowledge of the earth, is brought forth Those who hear the message ...