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 ...

Pillow Talk – Visoes Urbanas, Brazil Street Festival

2013  Pillow Talk, 8º Festival Visões Urbanas, Sao Paulo,  Brazil Street Festival (date)   Anthony Gongora, Maida Withers, and the audience perform in  Pillow Talk, a script for performance and audience involvement in the park MWDCCo has participated in 5 ...

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/ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shocked and Odd – Live Art (Russia)

(2005) ? April 15 or 16 Russia and (2004)  December 3 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 ...

Invocation to Sustainability

(2010) May 16  Under the invitation of Maida Withers, dancers from the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre performed the opening ceremony at "The Friends" / Angels Landing, dancing with hand-held chimes at the kick-off event for the 4th Amazing EarthFEST in ...

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

[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002/2003 - 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 ...

Sphota Probe with Alex Caldiero

(2003) Alex Caldiero performance poet, scholar, author (Salt Lake City, Utah) performs live his poem, Sphota  Probe, with dancers  Maida Withers and Katia Chupashko  Katia performs Thresholds Crossed SOLO (Katia Chupashko) created by Maida Withers using a vertical standing ...

Thresholds Crossed – Solo and Duet

Thresholds Crossed: Solo  (2003) or Duet (2003) are NOT related specifically in concept or content to Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance - American & Russian dancers, 2006) Both dances are concerned with "thresholds that are crossed" but not the same reference/topic Note:  ...

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, ...

Ledge

[embed]https://vimeocom/100503881[/embed] Video produced by Linda Lewett at Fairfax TV (FCAC) A mythical journey performed by Maida Withers and John Lancaster to an original new music score by composer Michael Willis in a sparse stage set of hanging ropes This is a full ...

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 (insert video???) (1997) - December 5 - Seeing Jazz Move - Dance and Music Improvisation performance inspired by the popular public exhibition "Seeing Jazz"  presented by the Smithsonian International Gallery - S Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, December 5, 1997 ...

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.

[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] (1981) - May 4   Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, with Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation;  dancers - Maida Withers and the Dance ...

LENIN

(2005) April 14 Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum  in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolay Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium"  The work was ...