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, an ...

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 ...

LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge

MAIDA WITHERS AND THE DANCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 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 ...

Utah Project

  [embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears             Bruce Hucko, Photograph “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 ...

Rolling Thunder – “Transformation”

[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Rolling Thunder - Transformation  USA:  https://vimeocom/101003244  (14:18 minutes) Rolling Thunder - Transformation  Brazil:  https://vimeocom/10232271 (7:35 minutes) (1992) - "Rolling Thunder intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth  The gift, the knowledge of ...

Sands Cycles

https://vimeocom/463079035 See the full 30:00 minute movie below This short excerpt was used by Maida Withers for a presentation at Kanab, Utah EarthFest 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah  by ...

Stall. (Stage Performance)

[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed]   1981 - Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; a rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation, with dancers from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company  Charmed ...