Category Archives: Metaphysical/Spirit

FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)

[embed]http://vimeocom/17845659[/embed] (2010) FareWell - Tipping Point (December 3, 2010)  Maida Withers @ Alwin Nikolais Centenniel Celebration Concert, NYC Live music live by Steve Hilmy, electronic composer/musician Original choreography by  Maida Withers with Jadee Mitchell, GWU dancer Poems by David McAleavey: Shimmering Fragments: These sheer stripped-down shapes will ...

Earth Spirit Rising Concert

"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 mystery ...

Messenger Eagle (Dance for the Earth)

https://vimeocom/100918061 (1992 ) February 7 and 8 Messenger Eagle, Premiere: a male solo in Dance for the Earth, an evening suite of dances celebrating the Earth,  that pays homage to the important American symbol, the eagle   In America, and especially with ...

Path – Yellow Springs Residency

[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] (1989) Path   May 9 to 21  Creative Residency, Yellow Springs Institute, Philadelphia, PA  Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company were selected for a two-week creative residency at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international ...

Utah Project / Research – Residency

"As solar rays eclipse a desert turret, birds of prey, wings outstretched in flight, emerge in silhouette against a rocky ledge These, however are not natural canyon country sky dwellers They are members of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company creating ...

Rolling Thunder / Transformation (Dance for the Earth)

[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] (1992) Rolling Thunder/Transformation, February 7 and 8, concludes the evening-length program, Dance for the Earth, Thomas Jefferson Community Center Theater, Arlington, VA "Rolling Thunder/Transformation intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth  "The gift, the ...

Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples

[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples (1992) May 12  Duet adaptation performed by Maida Withers and Dana Tai Soon Burgess as part of Dance Construction Company concert, Dance for the Earth, GALA Opening, OMAMA Projeto, National Theater, Brasilia, Brazil (See United Nation's ...

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, "The South" - a facade - eloquence lost"  60 minutes In 1975, ...

Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz

[embed]https://vimeocom/7983497[/embed] (1996) August 20  UtahSpirit PlaceSpirit PlanetTukuhnikivatz,  evening-length multimedia performance by Maida Withers with the Dance Construction Company, commissioned by Lincoln Center for  Great Dance in the Bandshell, New York City, NY, attended by 2500 patrons  Video above:  Adam Peiperl (filming ...

Sands Cycles – Film

Film and photographs location: Coral Sand Dunes State Park, Kanab, Utah and White Sands National Park Service, New Mexico https://vimeocom/7692794?fl=pl&fe=cm (1992) SandS CycleS (Film) (28:40) SandS CycleS - a poetic dance and environment film, an amazing land site process of creating art ...

One Minute Wander – Film Short

[embed]http://vimeocom/78919495[/embed] 2000 - (August) 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 ...

Maida on Maida in the Universe

[embed]https://vimeocom/89233884[/embed] (2003) February 14 and 15  Maida on Maida in the Universe - Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC  Premiere: One-woman show created and performed by Maida Withers with live music for trombone by New York/West Virginia  composer/musician Cam Miller  In ...

Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)

[embed]https://vimeocom/58111383[/embed] Performance Documentary [embed]https://vimeocom/69312510[/embed] Projected Installation:  Alex Caldiero, poet  Anthony Gongora, film (2012) December 7 & 8 Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC A provocative dance theater work from associated memories, dreams, and nightmares, an off-beat yet delightful spectacle about the fiction and reality of ...