Category Archives: Genre

Under the Radar: Modern Dance in Russia with Maida Withers

2003  Documentary Film -  Interviews about post-modern dance in Russia  in 2003 Documentary shot  in St Petersburg, Russia  Maida Withers was a guest artist for Summer Dance Workshop, OPEN LOOK  Linda Lewett, filmmaker, shot the video and Maida Withers asked ...

Dance DC – Street Dance (Film Short 3:40)

2006 - Maida Withers, founder and Co- curator of DC International Improvisation Plus+ Festival created a video that mixed the street protest at 1700 K Street, Washington, DC with the street dance by Lotta Lundgren and Amanda Abrams on K ...

Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film 3:51)

SEE LARGE PHOTOS on web page FLICKR 2004 - Political dance film,  shot first half of Part II of Thresholds Crossed duet of Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora  Shot in unique Soviet Era architectural structure, Solovky Island Russia on the White ...

From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things

  [embed]http://vimeocom/108531246[/embed] 1967 - Maida created this 16mm film as part of her educational engagement with dance for children Maida was an active participant in the inauguration of the USA national Artist-in-Schools initiative that brought artists into public schools for curriculum development ...

Laser Dance I (Duet)

Michael Kilgore and Lynda Gatozzi, Original Cast 1971 - Maida Withers met Rockne Krebs, laser sculptor, in Washington, DC where they eventually served together on the Board of Directors for  Washington Project for the Arts For the first collaboration, Laser Dance I, ...

Dance/Sound Events (Tin Tabernacle Series)

1973 - 1974  Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented five evenings of Dance/Sound events, the Tin Tabernacle Series, with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll, in a dome-shaped space, Tin Tabernacle (a large gymnasium with a curved roof of tin somewhat in the ...

For Verabel

1977 - - The duet places the woman inside her home environment with a window, radio, bed springs suspended in the space The work has the lead solo figure, Ellen, in a dream of herself as a sexually attractive woman ...

Evening of Poetry and Dance I

1977 - Give the Dancers Castenets: The first evening-length collaboration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company with performance poet, Chasen Gaver,  Dance Project, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC with Sculptor, Edward LeBoe; Architect, Terry Rosenheck Chasen Gaver  wrote new poems and selected ...

Evening of Poetry and Dance II

1978 - Baby It's About Time! an absurd and outrageous social commentary event performed by dancers with Washington, DC's most controversial performance poet, Chasen Gaver  Chasen Gaver performed his poems sometimes using small hand-held instruments  Performing in cabaret style, he ...

Sky Cloud

1992 - Dance work created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female artist from the 1950s  Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white gauze with hand-made paper painted on by Hilda ...