Category Archives: Installation / Visual

For Verabel

1977 - - The duet places the woman inside her home environment with a window, radio, bed springs suspended in the space The work has the lead solo figure, Ellen, in a dream of herself as a sexually attractive woman ...

Bog Works

1975 - Installation performance with MWDCCo and John Driscoll, electronic composer/musician/sculptor, in the open theater space of Washington Project for the Arts in the earliest location on G Street, Washington, DC  Bog Works featured an installation of  unique homemade loudspeakers ...

Changing the System

1974 - The performance at the Columbus Museum of Art featured music by John Driscoll based on the original score, Changing the System (1973), by Christian Wolff   Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was joined by dancers from Ohio State University ...

Laser Dance I (Duet)

Michael Kilgore and Lynda Gatozzi, Original Cast 1971 - Maida Withers met Rockne Krebs, laser sculptor, in Washington, DC where they eventually served together on the Board of Directors for  Washington Project for the Arts For the first collaboration, Laser Dance I, ...

Dune

1992 Dune or Moving Earth Dune is created and performed by Maida that takes place with the full body mostly on the floor  This solo originated out of her experiences as a child in Kanab, Utah, Withers place of birth, where ...

OPEN

Exhibition: "OPEN" by Robin Bell Corcoran School of Arts and Design Flagg Building, 500 17th Street, NW Tuesday–Friday, 10 AM–6 PM, 2019 Saturday and Sunday, 1–6 PM OPEN, an installation of lights and projections by artist Robin Bell, is a celebration of transparency, belonging, and ...

Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky: Science and Art

  A public presentation of Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky  was  sponsored by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the large domed Albert Einstein Planetarium, Washington, DC the week prior to the premiere of the stage ...

K.A.C. Int’l Exchange (Taejon)

Korea – KAC Int’l Exchange (Taejon) 1999 – Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA  and Korean classical instrumentalists improvised in concert performance November 15, 1999,  for the K A C International Exchange Modern Dance ...

Sky Cathedrals – Media Project (Film 15:00)

1987 - Video project, "Obelisks,"  by Adam Peiperl, visual artist combined with dance on video  The sculptural objects created by Adam have  kaleidoscopic effect of based on the materials used to create the sculptures moving on a rotating plate as ...

Phase Tracing Movements – Title???

The movements from Phase Tracing developed with four dancers  These moves became Catching Butterflies and Other things that Move  Need to do more research in the ARCHIVES  This is a holding station for these photos Don, Maida, Diane

Psychedelic Dance

1968-69 - Psychedelic Dance  created by Maida Withers with GW Dancers  Oil was mixed in water and videotaped and projected on dancers in white attire  This dance was invited to be on Channel 4, NBC-TV  However when we arrived at the ...

Naked Truth – Tzveta Artisphere Solo

[embed]http://vimeocom/31281607[/embed] 2011 - Tzveta Kassabova performs an excerpt of her solo from the 20 minute trio, Naked Truth, for Maida Withers Films at Artisphere Theatre, Arlington, VA Choreography - Maida Withers with Tzveta Kassabova Dancer - Tzveta Kassabova Music - Steve Hilmy performs live Maida ...