Category Archives: Group Choreography

Performatica: Tres-Dias-en-Cholula

Performatica 2009:  3rd Foro Internacional De Danza Contemporanea Artes de Nivunuebti founded in 2006 by Ray Schwartz and Myra Morales at the Universidad de las Americas UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico residency program [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] MWDCCo 2009 participation in Performatica 2009: Maida Withers created a site ...

GW Dance Technique as Performance

[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) 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, the students performed ...

Washington Project for the Arts – Performance

(1975 - ) Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW Festival in 1966  Artists joined in cleaning out the bird dung in a vacated building that was ...

60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE

USA / UKRAINE CHOREOGRAPHY:  MAIDA WITHERS, USA  -  ANTON OVCHINNIKOV, Ukraine ELECTRONIC COMPOSER/MUSICIAN, STEVE HILMY,  USA 60TH GALA ANNIVERSARY of the NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTER OF UKRAINE WORLD PREMIERE "60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE" “scattering the ruins of the past for the sake of the future” Site Performance - ...

Chain of Events – Kennedy Center

          Video, Kennedy Center Archives:  http://wwwkennedy-centerorg/explorer/videos/?id=M6136&type=A December 8, 2014 - Chain of Events sheer imaginative fallout of movement Presented by Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Date/Time:  December 8, 2014 at 6:00 to 6:50  pm, FREE Location: Kennedy Center Theatre Lab; 2700 F Street, NW Washington, ...

Collision Course (Pillow Improvisation) – Gala Opening Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

[embed]https://wwwflickrcom/photos/103468415@N07/14219371009/[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/108083587[/embed] MWDCCo performed an "pillow dance," improvised for the Gala Opening of the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in their renovated gallery at 1632 U Street, NW, Washington, DC  Dancers Nate Bond, Tzveta Kassabova, Anthony Gongora, and Giselle Ruzany ...

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 ...

Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move

[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Videos - Phase Tracing, Phase Tracing I, Phase Tracing II movement phrase materials related to creation of the complex choreography in Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move References: https://maidadancecom/works/phase-tracing-movements-title/ https://vimeocom/90693028 https://vimeocom/90679290/ Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move: 1979 - "Fast paced dance of ...

Time Dance (1984)

1984 - Restaging choreography of 1976 version of Time Dance  for performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre  The square was adapted to a very large diamond rather than the original square space at Mt Vernon HandChapleand many other changes occurred  ...

Sky Cloud

Stacy Palatt, David Bentley, Dana Tai Soon Burgess 1992 - Dance work created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female artist from the 1950s  Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white gauze ...

FareWell – Rising Tide

[embed]https://vimeocom/6834436[/embed] 2009 - a dance work that is part of the FareWell project, a series of several dances, examines the rising of our oceans and the pollution of the seas and waterways with plastic water bottles and other debris and chemicals ...

Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil)

2002 - Original title:  A River Runs Deep; São Paulo, Brazil) Multidimensional dance, computer art, new music based on the mythology and power of the Amazon Rainforest - Spirits of the Rainforest Created in São Paulo, Brazil during a three-week residency ...

Phase Tracing I

1978 - Phase Trasing I, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist Performance where dancers create audio with movements of the body causing/dropping the projected ultra sound an octave into a level of audibility Movement makes ...

Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance)

2006 - Part I, II, III, IV:   A fusion of East and West that explores the events, ideology and humanistic issues that link the US with the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia over four decades of time Colored by ...

Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/73810026?turnstile=0zpz9a2jXNn299ShkYpeKgKxopwLkrDEMfy0N_-nUWou-ukgLATliY8WHCEjDlii9jii940e3hoq0OpdHM0zY_1p-5-eJZJXGbmsKny17FLD6CybKnEuzMitoasthirRQ43iEK_WPodvYhdsRreQNNa3EPyZzpRelpb64ln_fOi_5RqQQk7t9J3r8s0Pf9qBd8kBIJr-8-hi6S7BikyNouoSEZR7le_25oJbeJlVAVTNtp-8Y_YFfpl_2wimzHuO43Ymu-YK7kddTxQPAAMMkJtw0VEkFKNwacORTc_GFNr5f4P-SsBlCnnbM4GvqswN7fnStW3Sw7hyxzihdVhWXKihptUUJJJ_sR2y0FGi4lUqApIu4Cufx7YVRx6HNI64ha5XIRiyKgDObXe2w4Bb3Ecy_6v9bMCaCuq7OjTB9g7XDAho13g0CmzlQcV_TVJI7Fu8ixmdYvZ0XcegVQu2xoZJr4gEOQfgF5eq8aX5vIzS10An3hnmjBcAGPhXGufONn0XfTDmoXYADLG2zSHKUyNJLGhWCNbUN5iQ-YTXWX2D34E0wm-BzbhNYPLEPKbWowss_3CzIOIfHU0Q6vocf6iTAJp3MqOKxcX2aCREg-flXaRwBJYm3ucW7j_WPE_OWF9rY9y6sABYUIEoQ9__7mCsWwiYd34QaOw7mSrWVnqJ0TXO46mv-fZsaUICFOTZAcg60s8T47h4TOeyxskkgRUVec6SakF8jxLSba-eGxhAlDAkMcNIT7ieaMx2C2mLosAwdzem0ugSmVAcspwv9qWLRcSselSzMxmZQIkI9a0Npw26ZC-e5jimY-qQE-H9lanC53QG39b0OQRMVtLHcKiyq9qWvR_lVhejlbwvkt20czgjQIe9knpAQ4s0j0TY4Qa85b9cfc689ab3bb4cfefff5d7c1cfaf79df9eb0f8bdc6abaf4183da59c17133[/embed] (Costumes in this video are simple leotards  I believe that was the original costume, but the film says 1975must have been when the video was produced/posted???) 1974  Original Version: Evening length performance – nostalgia coupled with absurdity ...