Category Archives: Voice and Text
Performatica, Mexico – Film & Interviews
(2009) - April 13 to 25 Performática is an international contemporary dance and movement arts forum based in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, primarily associated with the Universidad de Amercas Puebla & UDLAP It acts as a hub for international exchange, featuring ...
In a World, Somewhere, Where There are NO Repetitions
(2022) October 7 & November 3 Gala Celebration, November 7, 2022 - 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 Dance Construction Company dancers ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)
[embed]http://vimeocom/17845659[/embed] (2010) December 10 Alwin Nikolais Centenniel Celebration Concert, Hunter College, New York City, New York "It was an honor to perform on the 100th year celebration concert paying tribute to the creative genius, Alwin Nikolais - American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, and ...
Ascenso – Object-A Gallery – Buenos Aries
2014 - Maida was invited to present a showing of selected dance films for a university public seminar in Buenos Aires, Argentina Ms Silvina Szperling, an important Argentinian dance filmmaker, curator, journalist, and Professor at Universidad Nacional de las Artes ...
Performatica: Film – FareWell – Tres-Dias-en-Cholula
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] (the above film will be replaced by a 2025 update by Linda Lewett ON MRW Z DRIVE LINDA TRANSFER2025 (2009) April 13 - 23 Documentary Film (29:20) Cholula, Mexico shot during Performátic, an International Forum of Contemporary Dance and the Art ...
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, ...
RainForest Awakens-3DSnakes
RAINFOREST AWAKENS Artists come together "live and online" to explore beauty and crisis in a visionary 3D Rainforest! Maida Withers, noted dance artist, performs in irridescent 3D virtual worlds of Tania Fraga, Brazilian computer artist, in a sonic forest of sound by Steve Hilmy This occurred during the Corona ...
Mass – A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to us on the Sabbath
(1972) Dates ? (1971?) Mass - A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to Us on the Sabbath: A dance opera - 25 minutes Choreography: Maida Withers with Sharron Rose Music: John Driscoll Dance Solo: Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) BA/MA dance students (Dancers/Vocals) 3 men/21 women Premiere: Dorothy Betts ...
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 ...
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) [embed]https://vimeocom/258164851?fl=pl&fe=cm[/embed] Saturday, February 10, 2018 (above) Sunday February 11, 2018 (below) [embed]https://vimeocom/258150770?fl=pl&fe=cm[/embed] (2018) February 10 and 11, DIGG, Dance ...
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 ...
FareWell: Film – Composer – Steve Hilmy
[embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - a shortened version of the evenng-length work was performed by Maida Withers for Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer (2008) FareWell and Hell-O June 28 and 29 Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers perform together at the Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage, a riveting "wake up call!" FareWell and Hell-O is ...
Nomad Dancer – Site Work (Film) (3:15)
https://vimeocom/473593639 (2007) - Nomad Dancer - Siste Work - Film (3:15 min) A narrated video short by Maida about life and her dances around the issues of "live art," excerpts of 6 site-specific projects: Utah Spirit-Place, Spirit-Planet, Tukuhnikivatz; Halda a mound ...
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 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 The earth is the source, subject and process for Withers' current projects Each ...
Prologue – Cowboys & Indians Play (Maida Withers)
[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] Prologue - Cowboys and Indians Play: Maida Withers USA performance - February 7/8, 1992 Prologue: Cowboys and Indians Play, solo (dance and spoken text) by Maida Withers (1991) December 1, Dance Place, Washington, DC (1992) February 7 & 8 - Dance for the ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe – Film Installation
[embed]https://vimeocom/91516040[/embed] (2003) - Maida on Maida in the Universe - Film Installation A one-hour video was designed for large-scale projection on stage during the evening-length, one-woman show, Maida on Maida in the Universe The projected film installation features excerpts of performance and ...
Put on the Music…Let’s Dance -1975)
[embed]https://vimeocom/108899561[/embed] (1975 or 76?) (check date ok year? video states 1976 but think it is wrong) Put on the Music - Let's Dance (Cabaret Setting - Audience and performance space mingled) Washington Project for the Arts, 1227 G Street NW, Washington, DC ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Episodes 1-2-3 (Artisphere)
(2011) October 21 Excerpts - work-in-progress presentation to a sold out crowd in the Dome building in Rosslyn, Virginia Three sections from Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) performed October 21, 2011 at Artisphere, a ...
Obsession – Suite Elvis Solo – Maida Withers
https://vimeocom/90645088 Excerpt from evening-length documentary video - Maida Withers performs what was referred to as "Elvis Solo" in the evening-length dance Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex(1986) December 4, 5, 6 Elvis solo (nickname) Publick Playhouse Maida Withers was featured, in Obsession ...
Time Dance (1984)
https://vimeocom/106383942 https://vimeocom/92363361 (1984) or 1970 ? June 14 - Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre Concept/Director: Maida Withers Choreography: Maida Withers and Dance Construction Company Concept/Intention: group performance based on structure - pulse and accumulation Sound / poetry: John Driscoll - Music for Miniature Objects and spoken text ...
Spirit Path / Migration
[embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] Video: Spirit Path/Migration @ Dance Place 1990 (Date TBD) Dance Place 19?? (Date TBD) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater (photos below) Performance at Dance Place, Washington, DC Kaleidoscope by Adam Peiperl - Mark Thompson, dance figure (1990) Spirit Path / Migration (date TBD) Duet by Maida ...
Thresholds Crossed – Film – Gulag/Art Angar
[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? (2004) (Film Short: 3:51) Thresholds Crossed / (Gulag) Art Angar - Political dance film short shot on ...
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 presents five evenings, Dance/Sound Events - Tin Tabernacle Series, a project with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll presented in a large dome-shaped ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance: Dance I and Dance II
(1978) Baby It's About Time October 27 and 28 (second performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre) Assume 1981 performance at Dance Project was related to Michael Kriegsman review) (Part I) The first of two performances with Chasen Gaver, DC's most controversial, brilliant writer ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance II – notes MRW
1977 Is this a real date?//// See docs 1978 Evening of Poetry and Dance: (or Dance Project October 18, 1981)??? Part II Dance Project, Adams Morgan area, Washington, DC Dance City was the second of two performances, absurd and outrageous social ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples (1992) May 12 Duet adaptation performed by Maida Withers and Dana Tai Soon Burgess as part of Dance Construction Company concert, Dance for the Earth, GALA Opening, OMAMA Projeto, National Theater, Brasilia, Brazil (See United Nation's ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Jadee Mitchell)
[embed]https://vimeocom/6815207[/embed] (2008) - (April 17-20-tentative) FareWell - 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 disappearing This multimedia solo was created by Maida Withers ...
FareWell: The Others – Uncertain World
2007 - (Date TBD) A brash but intimate improvisation performance Fare Well: The Others (Uncertain World) was the first investigation event related to what became know as the Fare Well project - a series of dances on environmental change by conceived ...
Chroma
2013 - Late Night Expressions at Joe's Emporium for various art forms (dance, comedy, performance art) MWDCCo dance and music Improvisation performance with a script centered on lime green and orange objects (chair, marley strip, electrical cord, others) that was danced ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky
[embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] Trailer, Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky, TRAILER, Tania Fraga (05:00) 2001 A Four Part performance: I: "The Sun/Virtual Sun" II: "Solar Wind Towards Magnetosphere" III: "Magnetic Storm Seen from Above" IV: "View from the Earth" "A poetic journey through space using real-time ...
Investigation of Late
2002 - May 3 & 4 Investigation of Late, duet by Maida Withers and Lotta Lundgren with trombone music created and performed live by Cam Miller The female duet was presented at Marvin Betts Theatre on the program, Five Views ...
Families Are Forever Part III: Veiled Threat GW
https://vimeocom/35583218?fl=pl&fe=cm Video above: Rehearsal Building K for reconstructionLights low on stage for performance (1982) July Veiled Threat GW is the name for Part III of Families are Forever, a four part work in MWDCCo archive collection Veiled Threat reveals the delicacy of ...
Time Dance (1976)
(1976) Time Dance, March 26, 27, 28 Premiere: Hand Chaple, W Street, Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/106383942[/embed] (1984) Time Dance (October 12?) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater, 800 21 Street NW, Washington, DC 3 (1977) June 9 Time Dance: Found Audience - Found Space Potomac River Site, Washington, DC Time ...
Put on the Music…Let’s Dance (1977)
[embed]https://vimeocom/105665739[/embed] TV Ad & Interview - screen of TV: Chairman of the Board, Washington Performing Arts Society, on local ABC-TV daytime show, with performance by Brook Andrews and Maida Withers live in ABC-TV Studio promoting 1977 City Dance, historic Warner Theater, downtown ...
Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex
[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] OBSESSION: AMERICA'S OBSESSION WITH SEX Early Work-in-Progress - First Performance: Publick Playhouse - Maryland National Capital Park (1986) December 4, 5, 6 Obsession - A "made in USA" look at sex (locate video of Maida Withers dancing the Elvis "solo" - Blue ...
FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise
[embed]https://vimeocom/6643827[/embed] https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan FareWell: To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise - An evening-length performance by pioneering choreographer Maida Withers; ...
Woman See
[embed]https://vimeocom/101667371[/embed] Woman See (60 minutes) A politically charged feminist performance in eight parts with live media conceived and directed by Maida Withers (1980) December 6 and 7 - Premiere Performance - Studio K Theater, 23rd Street, Washington, DC (51:05) (1981) February 27 & 28 ...
Freedom of Information 2008 – 24 Hour Dance
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593512[/embed] FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 2008 - DANCE for 24 Hours AGAINST WAR AND/OR DISPLACEMENT CAUSED BY WAR ACTION: Artists (29) across the nation perform Freedom of Information 2008: a performance/protest/ritual in response to the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq Date of performance: December ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe
[embed]https://vimeocom/89233884[/embed] (2003) February 14 and 15 Maida on Maida in the Universe - Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Premiere: One-woman show created and performed by Maida Withers with live music for trombone by New York/West Virginia composer/musician Cam Miller In ...
This Space Occupied (by Maida)
[embed]https://vimeocom/60487039[/embed] Video - 35:45 Excerpts from 5 hour endurance performance https://vimeocom/78999671 Video - 04:16 Excerpts from 5 hour endurance performance Take it To the Bridge Series: Corcoran Gallery of Art overhead entryway, a temporary performance installation (2012) September 15 - 11 AM to 4 PM ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/58111383[/embed] Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk Stage Performance [embed]https://vimeocom/69312510[/embed] Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk Projected Installation Film: Alex Caldiero, poet Anthony Gongora, film Note: https://vimeocom/53869645 - Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk final rehearsal in Marvin Center (available on Vimeo) Note: Collision Course: ...
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 ...