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 Projects

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, in 2023-25, during the earliest period ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 4   Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers; rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, with Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation;  dancers - Maida Withers and the Dance ...