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
Note: PAM'YATATY DANCE FILMS INTRODUCTION: MAIDA WITHERS Click INTRODUCTION to view Maida Withers at Taras Shevchenko Memorial Park in Washington, DC - remarks presented at Ukraine dance site film showings June 4, 2025, Lviv, Ukraine, and June 22, 2025, Kyiv, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Still Rush (Original Cast – NYC, NY)
[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY View performances of Still Rush by MWDCCo: https://vimeocom/100908352 and https://vimeocom/101001560/ Premiere performance was January 12 and 13, 1991 at Dance Place, Washington, DC, as part of an evening titled ...
Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
1981 - an interview in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers This work followed five years involvement by Maida and other Mormon women ...
Sky Cloud
Stacy Palatt, David Bentley, Dana Tai Soon Burgess (1992) Sky Cloud - created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female color-school artist from the 1950s Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white ...
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, ...