Category Archives: Festival
ICE – Ice House Series
(2005) ICE August 11, Ice House Series - Live Arts, Gloucester Massachusetts New Arts Festival: Maida Withers and Vincent Cacalano performed an improvised duet, ICE, a site work that took place in the refrigerator/storage room (Cape Pond Ice) with dancers performing ...
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, ...
Collision Course – a.k.a Pillow Talk – Brazil Street Festival
(2013) Collision Course - Pillow Talk May 5 @ 8º Festival Visões Urbanas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Street Festival Anthony Gongora, Maida Withers, and the audience perform in Pillow Talk, a script for performance and public/audience participation in the performance ...
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 & Brazilian dancer "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 ...
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
"I love the 'Butterflies' workclean and clear movements Dancers interrupted and interrupting others, quickly and quietly with ease and dignity!" Maida Withers [embed]https://vimeocom/90693028?fl=pl&fe=cm[/embed] Above: Rehearsal - day of City Dance premiere Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move A delightful fast paced dance of ...
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 – Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/100503881[/embed] LEDGE - Linda Lewett, Producer - Fairfax TV (FCAC), Fairfax, Virginia Photo, Dune, by Arlen Withers: Dancer - Maida Withers A mythical journey of "man and woman" with planet earth "Then Shinov loosed an arrow that flew straight but missed its mark and ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples (1992) May 12 Duet adaptation performed by Maida Withers and Dana Tai Soon Burgess as part of Dance Construction Company concert, Dance for the Earth, GALA Opening, OMAMA Projeto, National Theater, Brasilia, Brazil (See United Nation's ...
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 – Live Art (DC)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102180708/[/embed] Live Arts Festival: Dancers and musicians improvise - Shocked and Odd 2004 - December 3 and 4 "Shocked and Odd" - New Arts Festival, Gloucester, Massachusetts, a "Live Arts" Festival that encouraged extreme movement and character concepts thru improvisation "Live Arts" ...
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] Offering: Maida Withers (above) Monster Man ...
Stall.
"Maida Withers' love of risk and the unknown has led her and us through dozens of daring choreographic expeditions over the past decadeless interested in charming spectators than in prodding them into unexpected modes of perception, she's always preferred to ...
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 ...