Category Archives: Installation / Visual
In Winds of Sand
[embed]https://vimeocom/101630192[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/7692794[/embed] 1993 - "The act of beingcreating for the Earth" Evening-length epoch performance and installation created and danced by Maida Withers The installation features visuals by Verabel Call Cluff, SandS CycleS SandS CycleS - an art film of Withers improvising at Coral ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] 1992 - Spirit Figures is part of Dance for the Earth created in commemoration and for the United Nation's Earth Summer (Eco '92) in Brazil Spirit figures wer created from discarded items (trash, like plastic) that create horrific destruction to ...
Sky Cloud
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 with hand-made paper painted on by Hilda ...
Dance for the Earth
1992 - Title given to the evening-length performance that included the following six dances related to Maida's Earth consciousness projects: Sky Cloud (1992), Prologue - Cowboys and Indian Play (1991), Messenger Eagle (1992), Still Rush (1991), Rolling Thunder "Transformation" (1992) Dance for the Earth was presented ...
SandS CycleS
https://vimeocom/463079035 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah and edited following the Hero's Journey described by Joseph Campbell, psychologist, researcher, and scholar [gallery size="medium" ids="6046,6055,6057,6047,6050,6054,6048,6045,6059,6056,6049,6060"] "SandS CycleS is a poetic dance and ...
In Earth’s Belly Deep – an emergence myth
"In Earth's Belly Deep" - Aerial Dance, Emergency Myth, 1990 Mark Thompson, Cecily Carsky-Miller & John Lancaster 1990 - "It is my desire to bring to life, through dance, music, and visual imagery, the extraordinary physical and spiritual powers experienced when visiting ...
Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex
[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] Performance in 2 parts: Part I: Elvis Pressley / religion impact - Gender transformation; Part II - AIDS (See ORBIT film: https://vimeocom/7691282 1987 - This evening-length performance is a commentary on the sexual revolution starting with Elvis Presley "Made in the USA" ...
Laser Dance (Stage Performance Excerpts / Fairfax Cable, FCAC-TV)
1985 - Four-part evening-length space odyssey (Part I: Departure; Part II: Quest; Part III, Domain; Part IV, Rites/Skylight/and Departure) of choreography that takes place inside a large-scale installation of argon laser beams created by Rockne Krebs and Synclavier II music ...
Laser Dance – Suites of Light, Public Presentation
1985 - Laser Dance [embed]https://vimeocom/102179302[/embed] Laser Dance "Suites of Light" - Artists' public presentation of the creation of a multidisciplinary performance project The artists, with an audience of 300 people, explored how the multiple art forms (laser light beams, dance, and synvlavier ...
Turf
1983 - Turf An Evening length feminist performance on women Olympians created in honor of the 1984 Olympics to be held in LA, California Olympic Films from the German Olympics (1936) and the Olympics in Japan (1962) and the 1976 ...
Families are Forever
1981 - Families Are Forever is a four-part multimedia narrative presented at the Renwick Gallery of Art, Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution during the Memorial Day weekend May 28 and 29, 1981 or ?3 as a tribute to families ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] Audio sample: https://wwwdropboxcom/s/t3sv1een2crmtfr/Stall%20excerpt%209minwav?dl=0 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 ...
Earth Meets Sky
1980 - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company collaborate with seventeen Washington, DC dancers performing an evening-length dance improvisation script to music improvised by Steve Bloom, Michael Manring, and Chris Beaven in GW's Studio K Theatre, Washington, DC Performance may ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] 1979 - "Fast paced dance of a recurring movement phrase where dancers interrupt and obstruct the motion of other dancers The movements used to interrupt and those movements that are interrupted are both manipulated and employed in the structural development ...
Phase Tracing II and The Wall
Dates may be incorrect Check archives! Were Phase Tracing II and the Wall on the same dates? February 29, March 1, and March 2, 1980 and or April 27, 1979 1979 - Phase Tracing II Performance developing the movements discovered in Phase Tracing ...