Category Archives: Politics
Rage
(2006) Rage - Gloucester New Arts Festival Maida Withers performed a dramatic solo, "Rage," a female political statement that took place on the theatre stage, a political statement, an improvised performance for the New Arts Festival, Gloucester, MA Gloucester New Arts Festival, ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
https://vimeocom/1081479749/https://thirdspacenetworkcom/bunker-fridays-apocalypse-fatigue/(2025) May 2 Live streaming, Bunkers Friday's online broadcast (Washington, DC) Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time (2025) where Maida Withers, dance artist, collaborates with Randall Packer, visual media composer, founder of Third Space Network / ...
Still Rush – NYC Dancers
[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] Rehearsal - Still Rush, Choreography by Maida Withers with Mino Nicholas Dance Company, New York City, NY (https://vimeocom/91848739) Premiere - Still Rush, New York City dancer's - January 12 and 13, 1991, Dance Place, Washington, DC (https://vimeocom/91811679) [embed]http://vimeocom/91811679[/embed] Premiere Performance: Dance Construction Company - ...
Thresholds Crossed Duet – Norilsk, RUSSIA
(2006) Russian arts producer, Luba Kusovnikova, invited Maida to present the duet from Thresholds Crossed, with Russian dancers Konstantin Grouss and Ananstasia Oleynik, in Norilsk, Russia for the Indigenous Conference: Integrity of Cultural Space – the Notion of “Border” in ...
Thresholds Crossed – Part I, TsEKh Residency
(2005) July 4 to 21 Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow, Russia - work in progress MWDCCo were guest artists-in-residence for three weeks in Moscow, Russia with the highly regarded TsEKh International Summer School (July 4-21,2005) The Moscow Dance Agency TsEKh started ...
RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: Resistance
RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ART and DANCE of Resistance THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ART Washington, DC presents January 20, 2019 USA: Maida Withers, Dance Construction Company UKRAINE: Anton Ovchinnikov, Black O!Range! Dance USA: Erica Rebollar, Rebollar Dance USA: Yoko K Sen, Sound Artist RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ...
60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE
USA / UKRAINE CHOREOGRAPHY: MAIDA WITHERS, USA - ANTON OVCHINNIKOV, Ukraine ELECTRONIC COMPOSER/MUSICIAN, STEVE HILMY, USA 60TH GALA ANNIVERSARY of the NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTER OF UKRAINE WORLD PREMIERE "60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE" “scattering the ruins of the past for the sake of the future” Site Performance - ...
DIGG – a provocative excavation – current political landscape
"Withers has created a work that spans the human experience of witnessing modern American politics: anxiety, fear, anger, nervous laughter and resilient hope" Cassie Patterson (2018) "Withers is a dance legend" Carmel Morgan (2018) https://vimeocom/390858979 (2018) February 10 amd 11 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia ...
Dance and Politics: Couch Conversation
2016 February 16 or 28??? DANCE AND POLITICS: COUCH CONVERSATION & PERFORMANCE International choreographers and activist artists, Maida Withers, Washington, DC, and Annika B Lewis, Denmark, engage, irreverently, in dialogue and performance exploring questions of politics and culture, today, in the ...
Trans Action – ART LIVES HERE OR NOT!
(2014) September 20 "Creative Placemaking Initiative Takes Site-Specific Dance into Hyattsville, MD" TRANS ACTION! "Art Lives Here OR Not" celebrates Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company’s pivotal role in the 1970s dance revolution that became known as site-specific work" [embed]https://vimeocom/110949775[/embed] Mount Rainier, ...
K.A.C. Int’l Exchange: Dance Concert Improvisation (50 anniversary Taejon. Korea)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102128125[/embed] 1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA, dancers improvised a public concert performance November 15, 1999, for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea Professional, classical, Korean musicians collaborated, ...
Solovky Island, Gulag Residency, Russia
[embed]https://vimeocom/429686550[/embed] Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora dance in the 14th Century Monestery (dungeon) - Linda Lewett, film 2004 - (July 7 - Summer - 3 weeks) Solovky is known for the astonishing 14th Century monastery and man-made rivers There islands housed one ...
Spirit Figures (Dance for the Earth)
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] Spirit Figures is a ritual, a theatrical yet spiritual ritual, with larger than life "puppets" carried and manipulated by dancers/humans created from materials destructive to human life and to planet earth This dance takes a level of pride in worship and ...
Invocation to Sustainability
(2010) May 16 Under the invitation of Maida Withers, dancers from the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre performed the opening ceremony at "The Friends" / Angels Landing, dancing with hand-held chimes at the kick-off event for the 4th Amazing EarthFEST in ...
Dance for the Earth Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/100908352[/embed] (1992) DANCE FOR THE EARTH (February 7 and 8): an evening-length program, a collection of "earth consciousness dances," premiered at Thomas Jefferson Community Theater in Arlington, Virginia, USA DANCES INCLUDED IN DANCE FOR THE EARTH: Sky Cloud: (1992) Metaphoric dance - the ...
Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film 3:51)
[embed]https://vimeocom/8079530[/embed] SEE LARGE PHOTOS on web page FLICKR ??? Ask Andrew and Jamille about FLICKR???? Early on we used it, where are the photos filed? RUSSIA: Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film Short: 3:51) (2004) (2004) Thresholds Crossed/Art Angar - Political ...
Faces of the Fallen (World War II Memorial)
2004 - World War II Memorial Site event created by Maida Withers with six female dancers from The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, Washington, DC The Capital City has rich resources, monuments, statues, gardens, islands of political ...
Woman See
[embed]https://vimeocom/101667371[/embed] 1980 (Premiere Dates?) Woman See (51:05) 1980 (dates)Premiere Performance - Studio K Theater, 23rd Street, Washington, DC 1981 (dates?) - 2nd Performance - Corcoran Gallery of Arts, Atrium, Washington, DC 1981 - Feb 27 &28 (question place and dates) - 3rd Performance - ...
Freedom of Information – 24 Hour Dance
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593512[/embed] Artists across the nation perform Freedom of Information 2008: a performance/protest/ritual in response to the wars in Afghanistan and IraqDecember 31, 2008 Location: Various throughout the country (2008) December 31 and (2009) January 1 - Concept and invitation: Miguel Gutierrez 24-hour performance/protest/ritual, a ...
Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/6880178/43052b7309/[/embed] 2006 - Part I, II, III, IV: A fusion of East and West that explores the events, ideology and humanistic issues that link the US with the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia over four decades of time Colored by ...
LENIN
(2005) April 14 Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolay Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium" The work was ...