Category Archives: Project

Embrace the Moment

(2023)   Embrace the Moment is a beautiful, interactive, female duet created by Jen Clark Stone and Megan Thompson, with Maida Withers  The "responsive" duet premiered September 23, 2023 for the OPENING EVENT of LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge, ...

PAMYATATY – UKRAINE – Dance and War Projects

(2025)  June 4 & June 22  PAMYA'TATY - UKRAINE - Dance & War - Site works & Film:  (Video presentations Lviv June 4, 2025 and Kyiv, June 22, 2025) project proposed by Anton Ovchinnikov, Ukraine, with Maida R Withers, USA, ...

LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge

(2022) September 23 - December 10 LEGACY: 50 Years   Dance on the Edge Corcoran School of Arts and Design;  Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet (click) HISTORY EXHIBITION - September 23 - October 23, 2022 Maida Withers and the ...

United Nation’s Earth Summit Eco ’92 Brazil

Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Dana Tai Soon Burgess; female, TBD "In the 1990's, artists and the arts will play a central role as communicators of values in world consciousness of ecology and related social and cultural issues, working hand ...

Utah Project

  [embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears  Bruce Hucko, Photographer “In 1988, I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with a group of artists for a five-week experiment of living and dancing on selected land sites to create a dance ...

Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life

April 13 - April 21, 2006 - An exhibition at the Dimock Gallery in Washington, DC - a retrospective of photographs, video, and costumes that celebrates 35 years of innovative works by Washington's noted groundbreaking dancer and choreographer, Maida Withers  ...

Orff Suite

[embed]https://vimeocom/107530112[/embed] (1977) November 10   Dances created by Maida Withers for the Dance Construction Company with live performance by The Hartwick Orff Ensemble for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, annual meeting held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, DC The video shows only ...

Rolling Thunder / Transformation (Dance for the Earth)

[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] (1992) February 7 and 8  Dance for the Earth, Thomas Jefferson Community Theater, Arlington, Virginia,   (Six dances including Rolling Thunder) Program:  Intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth  The gift, ...

Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil)

[embed]https://vimeocom/77462030[/embed] (2002) July 2 Hekuras: Spirits of the Rainforest, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Anhembi Morumbi University)  (Original title:  A River Runs Deep, São Paulo, Brazil) Project conceived by Maida Withers, USA, and Tania Fraga, Brazil Maida's motivation came from MWDCCo involvement in Brazil for ...

Sands Cycles – Film

https://vimeocom/463079035 See 30:00 minute movie below This short excerpt was used by Maida Withers for a presentation at Kanab, Utah EarthFest, online 1991 - Film (30:00) (locate dates in Kanab 1 month & New Mexico) Dance and environment film shot on location ...

Stall.

John Driscoll,  Phil Edelstein, Maida Withers, Dance Construction Company (1981) May 4  thru May 22 Three week artist-in-residence program with Akademia der  Künste, West Berlin, Germany  to create a new work  Generous support of Director, Nele Herling (1981) May 22 @ 22:30 pm Stall  ...