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 ...
Dance for the Earth Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/100908352[/embed] (1992) DANCE FOR THE EARTH (February 7 and 8): an evening-length program, a collection of "earth consciousness dances," premiered at Thomas Jefferson Community Theater in Arlington, Virginia, USA Sky Cloud: (1992) Metaphoric dance - the wind, the voice of the Earth, ...
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 ...