Category Archives: Interactive Technology

Early Works – 1966 to 1973

Early works -1966 to 1973 (1964 thru 1973)  Dance works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company  as a not-for-profit federally tax-exempt organization in 1976  Performers included dancers from the community and ...

Laser 1 (1971)

 (1971)  Laser I (Duet) Laser I (Duet) was the first laser collaboration of Maida Withers with Rockne Krebs  Maida and Rockne were associates on the Board of Directors for Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC  The original choreography, by Maida, ...

Dance Film – ITVS Sampler

  ITVS (Independent Television Service)  sample for proposed film by MWDCCo for documentary film  ITVS  (Independent Television Service)  is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS  The proposed project was ...

Apocalypse Fatigue

https://vimeocom/1081479749 12-minute live performance in Bunker Fridays, Washington, DC, May 2, 2025 Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time in the history of America,  to speak openly about Apocalypse Fatigue​! Maida Withers, legendary dancer, choreographer, activist performs “live” at  Bunker ...

Rainforest Awakens

Tania Fraga Maida Withers Steve Hilmy RAINFOREST AWAKENS II [embed]https://vimeocom/471183584[/embed]  https://vimeocom/470650599 DRESS REHEARSAL LIVE ZOOM REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE BROADCAST WEBINAR interactive telematic performance with maida withers | performance telemática interactiva com maida withers October 21st | 21 de outubro, 2020, 06h30 PM (EDT) – 19h30 (BRT) Support | Apoios: The ...

LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge

MAIDA WITHERS AND THE DANCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LEGACY: 50 Years   Dance on the Edge Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet (click) HISTORY EXHIBITION - September 23 - October 23, 2022 Maida Withers and 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  Artisphere, an unusual curved stage in a large theatre with the seats moving upward ...

Offering

[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) Solo from MindFluctuations, a work created and performed by Maida Withers, co-authored with virtual worlds created by Tania Fraga,  3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil Offering Choreography and performance by Maida Withers Costume by Maida Withers Music by John Driscoll and ...

Monster Man

Monster Man (7:29) (2015) Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work with choreography co-authored by Anthony Gongora, supported by Maida Withers, artistic director (MWDCCo - Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Monster Man Choreography and performance by Anthony ...

Psychedelic Dance

(1968-1969)  Psychedelic Dance was created by Maida Withers with GW undergraduate dancers performing  A new technique involved oil, cake coloring mixed in water, in a clear glass mixing bowl  This projection technique was made possible with water, coloring, and oil ...

Hekuras (Visual Installation)

2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian Computer artist, created original virtual art worlds that became projected environments/installations on stage for the dances - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil, 2002) and Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (GW, 2010) The virtual ...

Dance / Music Columbus Museum of Art

Past Informtion in red deleted: https://maidadancecom/works/changing-the-system/  TITLE  DELETED FROM THE WEB 1974 - The performance at the Columbus Museum of Art was during the public celebration of the change of the name from Gallery of Fine Arts to Columbus Museum of Art, ...

3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)

[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002 - 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 resulting in the film short (4:04 time)  Dan Sternklar, 3D camera specialist ...

Collision Course a.k.a. episodes 1-2-3 (Artisphere)

2011 - Three sections of Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk  (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) performed at Artisphere, a museum and performance center in Arlington, Virginia, October 21, 2011 The Dome Theatre features a full size film curved ...

A Moving Interview, Maida Withers, Argentina

Note:  Maida had traveled many times to Brazil, starting with the United Nation's Earth Summit in 1992  She discovered that the price to fly to Argentina was very affordable from Brazil, so that instigated her travels there Lujan Oulton, with ...

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 ...

Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky, DC

  [embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] 2001  A Four Part performance: I: "The Sun/Virtual Sun" II: "Solar Wind Towards Magnetosphere" III: "Magnetic Storm Seen from Above" IV: "View from the Earth" "A poetic journey through space using real-time interaction with cyber worlds and movies and images of the sun and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (USA)

[caption id="attachment_4670" align="alignnone" width="4600"] 2010 - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest was first created in São Paulo, Brazil  (2002) with Brazilian dancers during a three-week residency  The version presented in Washington, DC  maintained some of the thematic movement materials, ...

Phase Tracing

(1978) - Phase Tracing, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist  In the performance, dancer's movements make inaudible sound audible with movements of the body or movement of silver strips of polyethylene/mylar strips hung from ceiling ...

Stall. (Stage Performance)

[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed]   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 Company  Charmed ...

Bog Works

BOG Works:  Maida Withers, dancer @ WPA  (no existing photos of homemade speaker installation)   Photo: Adam Peiperl BOG WORKS: John  Driscoll Instruments @ WPA BOG WORKS:  John Driscoll Instruments @ WPA 1975 - Friday, August 15, 1975 Home-Made Speakers  and Dance Program: Installation performance with ...