Category Archives: Post Modernism

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, an ...

In a World, Somewhere,Where There are NO Repetitions

IN A World Somewhere Where There Are No Repetitions is 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 World Somewhere Where There Are No ...

GW Dance Technique as Performance

[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) 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, the students performed ...

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

MindFluctuation: Offering [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (solo) from MindFluctuations,  created and performed by Maida Withers; Virtual World by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil  See MindFluctations (2015),an evening-length performance, for complete information Maida Withers, solo performance, danced wearing the helmet to influence the ...

Monster Man (See MindFluctuations)

[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (7:29) (See - excerpt from MindFluctuations, 2015) Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work co-authored by Maida Withers, choreographer and artistic director (Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) MindFluctuations: Monster Man Choreography and performance by Anthony ...

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  Artists joined in cleaning out the bird dung in a vacated building that was ...

MASQUERADE BALL – Blind Whino (40th Anniversary Celebration)

[embed]https://vimeocom/111740161[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/111806662[/embed] 2014 - 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, live ...

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 ...

Dance / Music Columbus Museum of Art

Past Informtion in red deleted: https://maidadancecom/works/changing-the-system/  TITLE  DELETED FROM THE WEB 1974 - The performance at the Columbus Museum of Art was during the public celebration of the change of the name from Gallery of Fine Arts to Columbus Museum of Art, ...

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 Maida Withers using a vertical standing casket ...

Prologue – Cowboys and Indians Play by Maida Withers

[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] 1992 - Short solo dance and written text spoken by Maida Withers - a view of the west as a cowgirl and the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers in Utah  Presents that wit that underlies many of Withers' works - ...

Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move

[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Videos - Phase Tracing, Phase Tracing I, Phase Tracing II movement phrase materials related to creation of the complex choreography in Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move References: https://maidadancecom/works/phase-tracing-movements-title/ https://vimeocom/90693028 https://vimeocom/90679290/ Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move: 1979 - "Fast paced dance of ...

Time Dance: Found Audience – Found Space (1977)

1977 - This version of Time Dance was an adaptation of dancers performing selected segmants of choreography from the stage work, Time Dance, on the steep steps leading down to the Potomac River behind the Lincoln Memorial  The performance occurred ...

Time Dance (1984)

1984 - 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 HandChapleand many other changes occurred  ...

Dance/Sound Events: Tin Tabernacle Series

1973 - 1974  Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented five evenings, Dance/Sound events, the Tin Tabernacle Series,with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll, in a very large and dome-shaped building, fondly, referred to as Tin Tabernacle Tin Tabernacle was a large GWU gymnasium with ...

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 ...

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 I

1978 - Phase Trasing I, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist Performance where dancers create audio with movements of the body causing/dropping the projected ultra sound an octave into a level of audibility Movement makes ...

Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Film Short 7:24)

Note:  Film Short - site specific project not part of Collision Course aka Pillow Talk choreography for evening length stage work  But it was part of the PILLOW CYCLE of dances   Maida was invited to present a "site work" for ...

Stall. (Stage Performance)

[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed]   1981 - Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; a rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation, with dancers from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company  Charmed ...

Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/73810026?turnstile=0zpz9a2jXNn299ShkYpeKgKxopwLkrDEMfy0N_-nUWou-ukgLATliY8WHCEjDlii9jii940e3hoq0OpdHM0zY_1p-5-eJZJXGbmsKny17FLD6CybKnEuzMitoasthirRQ43iEK_WPodvYhdsRreQNNa3EPyZzpRelpb64ln_fOi_5RqQQk7t9J3r8s0Pf9qBd8kBIJr-8-hi6S7BikyNouoSEZR7le_25oJbeJlVAVTNtp-8Y_YFfpl_2wimzHuO43Ymu-YK7kddTxQPAAMMkJtw0VEkFKNwacORTc_GFNr5f4P-SsBlCnnbM4GvqswN7fnStW3Sw7hyxzihdVhWXKihptUUJJJ_sR2y0FGi4lUqApIu4Cufx7YVRx6HNI64ha5XIRiyKgDObXe2w4Bb3Ecy_6v9bMCaCuq7OjTB9g7XDAho13g0CmzlQcV_TVJI7Fu8ixmdYvZ0XcegVQu2xoZJr4gEOQfgF5eq8aX5vIzS10An3hnmjBcAGPhXGufONn0XfTDmoXYADLG2zSHKUyNJLGhWCNbUN5iQ-YTXWX2D34E0wm-BzbhNYPLEPKbWowss_3CzIOIfHU0Q6vocf6iTAJp3MqOKxcX2aCREg-flXaRwBJYm3ucW7j_WPE_OWF9rY9y6sABYUIEoQ9__7mCsWwiYd34QaOw7mSrWVnqJ0TXO46mv-fZsaUICFOTZAcg60s8T47h4TOeyxskkgRUVec6SakF8jxLSba-eGxhAlDAkMcNIT7ieaMx2C2mLosAwdzem0ugSmVAcspwv9qWLRcSselSzMxmZQIkI9a0Npw26ZC-e5jimY-qQE-H9lanC53QG39b0OQRMVtLHcKiyq9qWvR_lVhejlbwvkt20czgjQIe9knpAQ4s0j0TY4Qa85b9cfc689ab3bb4cfefff5d7c1cfaf79df9eb0f8bdc6abaf4183da59c17133[/embed] (Costumes in this video are simple leotards  I believe that was the original costume, but the film says 1975must have been when the video was produced/posted???) 1974  Original Version: Evening length performance – nostalgia coupled with absurdity ...