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
United Nation's Earth Summit (Eco '92) "Maida Withers, uma das grandes representatantes da eco-active danca" (1992) June 3 - June 14 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Events prior to start and continuation of UN Earth Summit, Eco '92: OMAME Projecto (1992) (May 12 to June ...
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 ...
Dance for the Earth Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/100908352[/embed] (1992) Dance for the Earth, February 7 & 8, 1992: an evening-length program, a collection of "earth consciousness dances" premiered at Thomas Jefferson Community Theater in Arlington, Virginia, February 7 & 8, 1992: Sky Cloud: Metaphoric dance - the wind, the voice of ...
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”
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Dance for the Earth (Six dances including Rolling Thunder) "Intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth The gift, the knowledge of the earth, is brought forth Those who hear the message ...
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.
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] (1981) - May 22 (May 4 began 3 week residency) Akademia der Kunst, Berlin, Germany for the Festival of Pantomine, Music, Dance, and Theater Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; ...