Category Archives: Voice and Text
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 ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)
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Rainforest Awakens
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 iridescent 3D virtual worlds of Tania Fraga, Brazilian computer artist, in a sonic forest of sound by Steve Hilmy This occurred during the Corona ...
Washington Project for the Arts – Performance
1975 Washington Project for the Arts 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 formerly a building ...
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 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 [embed]https://vimeocom/258150770[/embed] 2018 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance experience created and ...
Dance and Politics: Couch Conversation
2016 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 USA and Europe "Out of ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero Maida Withers 2008 Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival Alex performed live on the stage with Maida on the Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage spontaneously reciting and creating text and projecting ...
Dance for the Earth
1992 - Title given to the evening-length performance that included the following six dances related to Maida's earth consciousness projects: Sky Cloud (1992), Prologue - Cowboys and Indian Play (1991), Messenger Eagle (1992), Still Rush (1991), Rolling Thunder "Transformation" (1992) Dance for the Earth was presented ...
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 - ...