Category Archives: Festival
ICE
(2006) ICE Gloucester New Arts Festival: 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 ...
Rage
(2006) Rage - Gloucester New Arts Festival 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, ...
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
(2004) July 12 to 16 TOUCH 2004 Festival 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 ...
TOUCH – 2003-Arkhangelsk-Russia
(2003) 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» ...
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 ...
Thresholds Crossed – Part I, TsEKh Residency
(2005) July 4 to 21 Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow, Russia - work in progress MWDCCo were guest artists-in-residence for three weeks in Moscow, Russia with the highly regarded TsEKh International Summer School (July 4-21,2005) The Moscow Dance Agency TsEKh started ...
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 ...
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 resulted 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: ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
https://vimeocom/90693028 (1980) May 9 Rehearsal for City Dance '80 performance at Warner Theater (little time for rehearsal at Warner Theater so we rehearsed at Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, location of the first performance [embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] (1979) Original cast rehearsing in Bldg K, documenting Catching ...
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] LEDGE - Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, November 12 & 13, 1988 Video produced by Linda Lewett at Fairfax TV (FCAC), Fairfax, Virginia Photo: DUNE, Maida Withers A mythical journey performed by Maida Withers and John Lancaster to an original new music score by ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples (1994) May Tour: Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples was a solo performed by Maida in Seoul, Korea (May 2) followed by performance and teaching in Guangzhou, China and finishing the tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia In ...
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 ...
Shocked and Odd (DC)
2004 - Shocked and Odd - Live Art was an idea encouraging extreme movement and character concepts for improvisation that took place in DC with several of the worlds best improvising dancers Withers states, "Without a question, performing with ...
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.
Stall an evening-length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music, a result of a dialogue between art and science, and presents an innovative work integrating art, music, dance, and electronic technology Stall features a rotating loudspeaker and sound installation by ...
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 ...