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 ...

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, ...