Category Archives: Political Topic

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 ...

PAMYATATY – UKRAINE – Dance and War

PAMYA'TATY - UKRAINE - Dance & War - Site works & Film:  project proposed by Anton Ovchinnikov, Ukraine, with Maida R Withers, USA, in 2023-25, during the earliest period of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia  The desire for artists ...

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, ...

Still Rush – NYC Dancers

  [embed]http://vimeocom/91811679[/embed] (1992) Still Rush  (https://vimeocom/91811679) An impassioned work based on Withers’ pioneer ancestor’s migration from Missouri, Illinois, other locations, to territory in the Mountain West - a valley that became Salt Lake Valley  History of Still Rush:  Maida was invited to create ...

United Nation’s Earth Summit Eco ’92 Brazil

United Nation's Earth Summit (Eco '92): (1992) June 3 - June 14 / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Participants through international artists OMAME Projecto (May 15 ?- June 1) / Brasilia, Brazil, prior to Eco '92 Brazilian National Movement of artists for ...

Thresholds Crossed Duet – Norilsk, RUSSIA

(2006) Russian arts producer, Luba Kusovnikova, invited Maida to present the duet from Thresholds Crossed, with Russian dancers Konstantin Grouss and Ananstasia Oleynik, in Norilsk, Russia for the Indigenous Conference: Integrity of Cultural Space – the Notion of “Border” in ...

60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE

USA / UKRAINE CHOREOGRAPHY:  MAIDA WITHERS, USA  -  ANTON OVCHINNIKOV, Ukraine ELECTRONIC COMPOSER/MUSICIAN, STEVE HILMY,  USA 60TH GALA ANNIVERSARY of the NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTER OF UKRAINE WORLD PREMIERE "60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE" “scattering the ruins of the past for the sake of the future” Site Performance - ...

K.A.C. Int’l Exchange: Dance Concert Improvisation (50 anniversary Taejon. Korea)

[embed]https://vimeocom/102128125[/embed] 1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA, dancers improvised a public concert performance November 15, 1999,  for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea  Professional, classical, Korean musicians collaborated, ...

Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)

(1992 ) Messenger Eagle is 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 cultures ...

Still Rush – MWDCCo Dance for the Earth

https://vimeocom/100908352 Still Rush:  Open 41:51  - 52:47 End 1992 - Still Rush was performed in Washington, DC, February 7 and 8, 1992 by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company in the Dance for the Earth  concert 1992 -Still Rush was performed in Brasilia, Brazil, May ...

Damned River

(1993) "Wind is power, the grass, people  When winds blow the grass bends"  Damned River is dedicated to Mariko, dance colleague in Kyoto, Japan A multimedia stage work for fourteen dancers that explores the dynamics of fascism in its subtle and ...

Still Rush – NYC Dancers Rehearsal

[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] (1990 or 91 December?)    Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY Dancers for Still Rush were auditioned and selected by Maida Withers with Mino Nicholas Dance Company in New York City, for a work ...

Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV

http://maidadancecom/works/woman-see-maida-withers-weta-pbs-interview/ 1981 - an interview with Maida in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers Dancers participated live at PBS  This work followed five years ...

Sky Cloud

[embed]https://vimeocom/100908352[/embed] Dance for the Earth Concert - 1992: Six Dances created by Maida Withers with the Dance Construction Company  First performance with six dances was in Arlington, Virginia in February 1992  Subsequently, four of these dances were performed at the Gala Opening ...

State of the Art

1986 - State of the Art examines the conflict of art and the artist in American society The rapid development of arts management looms as a potential to independence and innovation by the artist Press Release:  State of the Art is ...

Woman See

[embed]https://vimeocom/101667371[/embed] Woman See - Premiere Performance [embed]https://vimeocom/88378613[/embed] Woman See - Duet Part I Commencement (rehearsal; 04:36) [embed]https://vimeocom/75605276[/embed] Interview:  Woman See, PBS, WETA TV, DC (See separate page on maidadancecom) WOMAN SEE - 1980 and 1981 A politically charged feminist performance in eight distinct parts  with live music, ...