Category Archives: Metaphysical/Spirit
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
1992 - In America, Native America, and many other cultures, the Eagle is admired and held in great reverence When working on the red earth sites in the Southwestern United States it is always a glorious moment when the Eagle ...
Utah Project
[embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears Bruce Hucko, Photograph “In 1988, I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with a group of artists for a five-week experiment of living and dancing on selected land ...
Rolling Thunder – “Transformation”
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Rolling Thunder, USA: https://vimeocom/101003244 (14:18 minutes) Rolling Thunder, Brazil: https://vimeocom/10232271 (7:35 minutes) 1992 - "Rolling Thunder intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth The gift, the knowledge of the earth, is brought ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Maida performed Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples in 1984 in Guangzhou, China (In Winds of Sand at the Hong Kong Academy on that tour) and then performed Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples in Seoul, Korea In 1995 on another Asian ...
White Mansions – Holy Rood Cemetery
JoAnn Sellars, John Bailey, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews WHITE MANSIONS - 1975 The first performance took place at the newly renovated Washington Project for the Arts space on 1227 G Street NW, Washington, DC in 1975 Dancers assisting in cleaning out the ...
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz
[embed]https://vimeocom/7983497[/embed] Above: UtahSpirit PlaceSpirit PlanetTukuhnikivatz, performance at Lincoln Center, GREAT DANCE IN THE BANDSHELL, shot by Adam Peiperl in the audience with restriction that he could not stand continuously by the camera due to blocking - 2500 patrons who attended the ...
SandS CycleS
https://vimeocom/463079035 See the full 30:00 minute movie below 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah by Verable Call Cluff and edited by Cluff refrencing the Hero's Journey described by Joseph Campbell, ...