Category Archives: Solo Choreography

Rage

(2006) Rage 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, a free street and site ...

Apocalypse Fatigue

https://vimeocom/1081479749https://thirdspacenetworkcom/bunker-fridays-apocalypse-fatigue/(May 2, 2025)  Live streaming, Bunkers Friday's online broadcast: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 / Bunker Friday's broadcast, ...

FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)

[embed]http://vimeocom/17845659[/embed] FareWell - Tipping Point

Dune

1992 View DUNE In Winds of Sand:  https://vimeocom/101621322 : (00:00:00 to 0:05:58) Also view DUNE in Earth Spirit Rising:  https://vimeocom/9360613 9  (0:09:13 to 0:16:53) Dune or Moving Earth Dune is created and performed by Maida  Withers that takes place with the full body mostly ...

Naked Truth – Tzveta Solo With Film Installation

[embed]https://vimeocom/73873364/[/embed] 2012 - Tzveta Kassabova performs with Film Installation of Tzveta dancing her solo from Naked Truth as part of Involuntary Encounters Event in Dorothy Betts Marvin Center: An evening of diverse dances by dance artists, friends and former dancers with ...

Naked Truth – Tzveta Artisphere Solo

[embed]http://vimeocom/31281607[/embed] 2011 - Tzveta Kassabova performs an excerpt of her solo from the 20 minute trio, Naked Truth, for Maida Withers Films at Artisphere Theatre, Arlington, VA  Artisphere, an unusual curved stage in a large theatre with the seats moving upward ...

Offering

[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) 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 Driscoll and ...

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 ...

Mass – A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to us on the Sabbath

(1972)  Mass - A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to Us on the Sabbath:                      A dance opera Choreography:  Maida Withers with Sharron Rose Music:  John Driscoll Dance Solo:  Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose)      Dancers/Vocals:  GW ...

DIGG – a provocative excavation of the 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, 11 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance ...

FareWell and Hell-O

Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer (2008) FareWell and Hell-O Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage, a riveting "wake up call!" Alex and Maida have a substantive history of working ...

Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)

(1992 ) Messenger Eagle is primarily a male solo in Dance for the Earth, an evening of dances celebrating the Earth,  that pays homage to the important American symbol, the eagle   In America, and especially with Native Americans, and other ...

Thresholds Crossed – Solo and Duet

Thresholds Crossed: Solo  (2003) or Duet (2003) are NOT related specifically in concept or content to Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance - American & Russian dancers, 2006) Both dances are concerned with "thresholds that are crossed" but not the same reference/topic Note:  ...

Prologue – Cowboys & Indians Play by Maida Withers

[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] (1992) February 7 & 8 - Prologue: Cowboys and Indians, a delightful solo performance of dance and spoken text written by Maida Withers - her view of the west as a cowgirl and as the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers ...

Obsession – Suite Elvis Solo by Maida Withers

https://vimeocom/90645088 Excerpt from evening-length video - performance when Maida Withers did the Elvis Presley solo!(1986) December 4, 5, 6 - Solo by Maida Withers was featured, in Obsession - America's Obsession With Sex, as the dancer performing the"Elvis" figure at 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 ...

Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples

[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Maida performed Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples in 1984 in Guangzhou, China (In Winds of Sand at the Hong Kong Academy on that tour) and then performed Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples in Seoul, Korea In 1995 on another Asian ...

In Winds of Sand

[embed]https://vimeocom/101630192[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/7692794[/embed] 1993 - "The act of beingcreating for the Earth"  Evening-length epoch performance and installation created and danced by Maida Withers  The installation features visuals by Verabel Call Cluff, SandS CycleS Dancer:  Maida Withers Music:  Alex Caldiero (drum and vocal) Film:  Verabel Call Cluff An ...

FareWell: Tipping Point (Jadee Mitchell)

[embed]https://vimeocom/6815207[/embed] 2008 -  Multimedia solo originally created by Maida Withers, choreographer for Jadee Mitchell, GW dancer Tipping Point refers to the crisis of global warming demonstrated most vividly in the Arctic and Antarctica, continents of ice on our planet that are ...

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 ...

Sands Cycles

https://vimeocom/463079035 See the full 30:00 minute movie below This short excerpt was used by Maida Withers for a presentation at Kanab, Utah EarthFest 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah  by ...

FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise

2008 - FareWell to the End of the World As We Know It or Dancing Your Way to Paradise "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan [embed]https://vimeocom/6643827[/embed] Dance Place Performance:  http://vimeocom/17018474 Trailer:  https://vimeocom/15561322 TOURS:  2008-2012 World Premiere:  Zagrebi Festival! Zagreb, ...

Maida on Maida in the Universe

(2003) February 14, 15  One-woman show created and performed by Maida Withers in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC  For this work, Withers life and artistic work parallel current scientific ideas and theories of the origin and fate/demise of the ...