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 in ...

GW Dance Technique as Performance

[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) April 5 ok 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, ...

United Nation’s Earth Summit Eco ’92 Brazil

Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Dana Tai Soon Burgess; female, TBD "In the 1990's, artists and the arts will play a central role as communicators of values in world consciousness of ecology and related social and cultural issues, working hand ...

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 (Dance for the Earth)

[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] (1992) February 7 and 8  Dance for the Earth, Thomas Jefferson Community Theater, Arlington, Virginia,   (Six dances including Rolling Thunder) Program:  Intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth  The gift, ...