Category Archives: Post Modernism
Early Works – 1964 to 1973
Early works -1964 to 1973 (1964 thru 1973) Dance works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as a not-for-profit federally tax-exempt organization in 1974/6 Performers included mature dancers from the Washington, ...
ICE
(2006) ICE Gloucester New Arts Festival: Maida Withers and Vincent Cacalano performed an improvised duet, ICE, a SITE WORK that took place in the refrigerator/storage room for large blocks of ice that would be used by fishermen on their boats ...
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, ...
Embrace the Moment
(2023) Embrace the Moment is a beautiful, interactive, female duet created by Jen Clark Stone and Megan Thompson, with Maida Withers The "responsive" duet premiered September 23, 2023 for the OPENING EVENT of LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge, ...
In a World, Somewhere, Where There are NO Repetitions
(2022) October 7 & (2023) November 3 In A World Somewhere Where There Are NO Repetitions a poem and visual script created and performed/spoken"live" by Alex Caldiero, performance poet, with dancers improvising as directed by the script, as follows: In a ...
GW Dance Technique as Performance
[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) April 5 ok In 2017, five dancers, students at George Washington University, studied with Maida Withers, to explore a course, Dance Technique as Performance The course was divided into four segments After three weeks of studying movement and movement phrases, ...
Take Off
1968 or 1971 (TBD) - Take Off; National Airport Radio Tower Sound Score (agents talk) Choreographed by Maida Withers for six DC women dancers (GW undergraduate dance students) Take Off is a metaphor for life based on the power of the airplane ...
Dance Construction Company 1974 – 2006
https://vimeocom/16188943 Dance Construction Company: 1974-2006 (31:23) "This video is part of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Catalyst anniversary exhibition that highlights 35 years of WPA's history The WPA retrospective curated by JW Mahoney demonstrates the continuing uniqueness, resilience, and catalytic ...
Offering
[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) March 19 Solo from MindFluctuations, a work created and performed by Maida Withers, co-authored with virtual worlds created by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil Offering Choreography and performance by Maida Withers Costume by Maida Withers Music by John ...
Monster Man
[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (2015) December 4 to 7 Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work with choreography co-authored by Anthony Gongora, supported by Maida Withers, artistic director (MWDCCo - Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Performed as a ...
Psychedelic Dance
(1968-1969) Psychedelic Dance was created by Maida Withers with GW undergraduate dancers performing A new technique involved oil, cake coloring mixed in water, in a clear glass mixing bowl This projection technique was made possible with water, coloring, and oil ...
Essay I – Of the Mind Essay II – Of the Heart
(1966) Two-part work: Essay I - Of the Mind; Essay II - Of the Heart Choreography by Maida Withers with six GW dancers The works explore the balance and conflict between the impulses "of the mind" and the ...
Laser Dance: Quest-Domain (no laser)
(April 28, 1985) Quest (Part I) and Domain (Part II) and Dialogue (Part III) National Dance Week, Dance Fest '85 Glen Echo Park, Washington, DC Preview of opening sections of upcoming Laser Dance, world premiere, at Lisner Auditorium, June 5 & 6, 1985, with ...
Washington Project for the Arts – Performance
(1975 - ) Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW FESTIVAL in 1966 in the skating rink facility in Washington, DC WPA was established as an artist ...
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 ...
MASQUERADE BALL – Blind Whino (40th Anniversary Celebration)
[embed]https://vimeocom/111740161[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/111806662[/embed] (2014) December 8 In celebration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company’s 40th anniversary, Art Whino presented a Masquerade Ball at Blind Whino: SW Arts Club, full of mystery and surprise This full sensory experience combined performance art with experimental dance, ...
Thin Holes / BYU Residency
1976 - Thin Holes, a new work created during a three week summer dance residency: Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company (Maida Withers, John Bailey, Brook Andrews) and John Driscoll, composer/musician, engaged in a three to four week residency ...
TOUCH 3 International Festival Arkhangelsk, Russia
2004 - For TOUCH 3 (July 11 to 16) International Modern Dance Festival in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Produced and Directed by Nikolais Shchetnev We were honored to be part of this exciting and diverse professional festival MWDCCo directed an original site-specific ...
Dance Works by International Women (Venezuela/DC)
[embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] October 31 to November 2, 1997 Tour / Residency: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela Sponsored by Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo Maida Withers Dance Construction Company toured to Venezuela to perform with Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo The Dance Construction Company invited Phffft ...
Dance / Music Columbus Gallery of Art
Question? Were three two performances? Program February 23, 1974 - Was this the evening event? John Driscoll, composer/musician, and Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (John Bailey and Brook Andrews, JoAnn Sellars) performed throughout the gallery during the opening public celebration of ...
Going Beyond…an Odyssey (Corcoran Gala)
2002 - February 22 Maida Withers was commissioned to create an event for the Corcoran Gallery of Art Gala Benefit, Going Beyond, an Odyssey, Friday, February 22, 2002 for over 900 guests This commission was with the original Corcoran Gallery ...
Sphota Probe with Alex Caldiero
(2003) Alex Caldiero performance poet, scholar, author (Salt Lake City, Utah) performs live his poem, Sphota Probe, with dancers Maida Withers and Katia Chupashko Katia performs Thresholds Crossed SOLO (Katia Chupashko) created by Maida Withers using a vertical standing ...
Prologue – Cowboys & Indians Play by Maida Withers
[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] Prologue: Cowboys and Indians Play, solo by Maida Withers (1991) December 1, Dance Place, Washington, DC (1992) February 7 & 8 - Dance for the Earth concert, Thomas Jefferson Community Center Theatre, Arlington, Virginia, USA (1992) May ? specific date TBD -, 1992 ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
https://vimeocom/90693028 (1980) May 9 Rehearsal for City Dance '80 performance at Warner Theater (little time for rehearsal at Warner Theater so we rehearsed at Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre) [embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] (1979)Original cast rehearsing in Bldg K, documenting Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses-2013
2013) November 14, 15, 16 An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on George Washington University dancers and performed on DanceWorks November 14, 15, 16, 2013 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Originally choreographed by Maida Withers ...
Time Dance: Found Audience – Found Space (1977)
(1977)- Date ? This version of Time Dance was an adaptation of dancers performing (staging) selected segments of choreography from the stage work, Time Dance, on the steep steps leading down to the Potomac River behind the Lincoln Memorial The ...
Time Dance (1984)
https://vimeocom/106383942 https://vimeocom/92363361 (1984) June 14 Restaging choreography of 1976 version of Time Dance for performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre The square was adapted to a very large diamond rather than the original square space at Mt Vernon Hand Chapeland many other ...
Dance/Sound Events: Tin Tabernacle Series
(1974) September 27 & 29; October 11, 12, and 19 Dance/Sound Events: Tin Tabernacle Series Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented five evenings, Dance/Sound events - Tin Tabernacle Series, a project with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll in a very large and ...
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 South" - a facade ...
Time Dance (1976)
1976 - Quartet based on structure of pulse and accumulation The dance begins with finger snapping the pulse and dancers continue the finger snapping off and on during the first 10 minutes The pulse appeared in the movement or as ...
Phase Tracing
Brook Andrews, Diane Floyd, Don Zuckerman, Maida Withers (1978) December 8 Phase Tracing, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist and composer In the Phase Tracing performance, dancer's movements make inaudible sound audible with movements of the body ...
Laser Dance: World Premiere, FCAC-TV
(1985) June 6 and 7 LISNER Auditorium / Washington, DC Evening-length space odyssey: Departure, Quest, Domaine, Rites, Dialogue (Skylight?), Departure [embed]https://vimeocom/7714416[/embed] Laser Dance (above) - shot on 16 mm film due to the low level light on stage required for laser beams Maida Withers ...
Stall.
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] (1981) - May 22 (May 4 began 3 week residency) Akademia der Kunst, Berlin, Germany for the Festival of Pantomine, Music, Dance, and Theater Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; ...
Freedom of Information – 24 Hour Dance
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593512[/embed] (2008) December 31 and (2009) January 1 - Concept and invitation: Miguel Gutierrez 24-hour endurance event with Maida blindfolded and with ears plugged In response to the ongoing US military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, Miguel Gutierrez, NYC, invited artists across ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
(2012) July 12 (See tours below) A provocative dance theater work from associated memories, dreams, and nightmares, an off-beat yet delightful spectacle about the fiction and reality of LUV for the digital age This evening-length multimedia dance theater work about ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses
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