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 ) February 7 & 8 Messenger Eagle is 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 ...
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, Photographer “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 sites to create a dance ...
Rolling Thunder / “Transformation”
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Dance for the Earth (Six dances including 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 forth Those who hear the message ...
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
John Bailey, JoAnn Sellars, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews (1975) September 13 - 14 (Sat/Sun) check dates, Washington Project for the Arts and Holly Rood Cemetery - newspaper date) WHITE MANSIONS (Date to be determined - WPA archive?) The first performance took place at ...
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 – Film
https://vimeocom/463079035 See 30:00 minute movie below This short excerpt was used by Maida Withers for a presentation at Kanab, Utah EarthFest, online 1991 - Film (30:00) (locate dates in Kanab 1 month & New Mexico) Dance and environment film shot on location ...
One Minute Wander (Film Short: 00:60)
[embed]http://vimeocom/78919495[/embed] 2000 - Following an interview regarding a dance work-in-progress, Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz, Maida Withers was asked by filmmaker Linda Lewett to extend the interview into a "nature" performance by the creek near Maida's home ...