Category Archives: Metaphysical/Spirit
Earth Spirit Rising
[embed]https://vimeocom/93606130[/embed] 1990 “It is my desire to bring to life, through dance, music, and visual imagery, the extraordinary physical and spiritual powers experienced when visiting the land of the four corners area in the Southwestern United States and to express the ...
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
(1992 ) Messenger Eagle is primarily a male solo in Dance for the Earth, an evening of dances celebrating the Earth, that pays homage to the important American symbol, the eagle In America, and especially with Native Americans, and other ...
Path
[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] (1989) - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company were selected for a two-week creative residency, May 9 to 21,1989, at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international center for art and ideas Other artist ...
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 - Transformation USA: https://vimeocom/101003244 (14:18 minutes) Rolling Thunder - Transformation 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 ...
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 This short excerpt was used by Maida Withers for a presentation at Kanab, Utah EarthFest 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah by ...