Category Archives: Festival

ICE

(2006) ICE Maida Withers and Vincent Cacalano performed  an improvised duet, ICE  a SITE WORK that took place in the refrigerator/storage room for large blocks of ice that would be used by fishermen on their boats  Gloucester is a fishing harbor in Gloucester, ...

Rage

(2006) Rage Maida Withers performed a dramatic solo, "Rage," a female political statement that took place on the theatre stage, a political statement, an improvised performance for the New Arts Festival, Gloucester, MA Gloucester New Arts Festival, a free street and site ...

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 Calheiros, ...

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/ ...

RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange-resistance

RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ART and DANCE of Resistance THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ART Washington, DC presents January 20, 2019 USA:  Maida Withers, Dance Construction Company UKRAINE: Anton Ovchinnikov, Black O!Range! Dance  USA:  Erica Rebollar, Rebollar Dance USA: Yoko K Sen, Sound Artist RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ...

FareWell: Comments by Choreographer Maida Withers

[embed]https://vimeocom/7113850[/embed] 2009 -  FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009  During ...

FareWell: Comments by Composer Steve Hilmy

  [embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - a shortened version of the evenng-length work was performed by Maida Withers for Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y ...

Shocked and Odd – Live Art (Russia)

(2005) and (2004)  Shocked and Odd "Live  Art" improvisation events that took place in two countries, Russia and American, that encouraged  extreme movement and character concepts (2005) The Russia performance was part of the programming for the International Festival of Modern Dance ...

3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)

[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002 - Maida Withers collaborates with Dan Sternklar, 3D filmmaker and inventor, to create 3D Dance / Future View, a 3D film of an improvised site performance  that resulting in the film short (4:04 time)  Dan Sternklar, 3D camera specialist ...

Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move

[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move (Video) Phase Tracing, Phase Tracing I, Phase Tracing II movement phrase materials (1978 and 1979) are distinctly related to the complex choreography in Catching Butterflies References: https://maidadancecom/works/phase-tracing-movements-title/ https://vimeocom/90693028 https://vimeocom/90679290/ (1979) Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move "Fast ...

FareWell: Comments by Media Artist Ayo Okunseinde

[embed]https://vimeocom/7113378[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - Interview of Ayo Okunseinde about his work with Maida presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009  During our residency Linda Lewett interviewed Maida Withers, choreography/dancer, ...

Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples

[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Maida performed Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples in 1984 in Guangzhou, China (In Winds of Sand at the Hong Kong Academy on that tour) and then performed Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples in Seoul, Korea In 1995 on another Asian ...

Seeing Jazz Move – Smithsonian International Gallery

https://vimeocom/519283804 1997 - Seeing Jazz Move - Dance and Music Improvisation performance inspired by the exhibition "Seeing Jazz"  presented by the Smithsonian International Gallery - S Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, December 5, 1997 at 6:30 pm  FREE Dance and the event,  ...

MindFluctuations

MINDFLUCTUATIONS DANCE, NEUROSCIENCE, VIRTUAL ART, LIVE MUSIC A Java 3D application drives the participants within a metaphorical virtual reality journey World Premiere / Lisner Auditorium March 19, 2015 Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/126002412[/embed] Trailer: MindFluctuations (6:29) Click to view Full-length Performance (1:22:33) Below:  Select MindFluctuations Sections performed independently [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Monster Man: https://vimeocom/128670434 [embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Woman: https://vimeocom/129210568 [embed]https://vimeocom/129210568[/embed] MindFluctuations, a groundbreaking collaboration between ...

Stall. (Stage Performance)

[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed]   1981 - Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; a rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation, with dancers from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company  Charmed ...

LENIN

005 - Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum  in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolai Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium"  The work was part ...