Category Archives: Project
Artist-in-Schools Program
National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Education in the early 1970's joined forces to established the Artists-in-Schools Program This program would bring professional artists into the schools to work with administrators, to teach children and teachers, and ...
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, ...
UKRAINE – PAMYATATY – Dance and War Project
(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 ...
DANCE VIDEO EXCERPTS – 1974 to 2006
Excerpts from DANCES - historical video footage: 1974 to 2006 (17:10) Second edition - updated technology Included in this edition are excerpts of the Russian/American project, Thresholds Crossed (2006) Below: Excerpts of video from select dances from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company archives, 1974 ...
United Nation’s Earth Summit Eco ’92 Brazil
Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Dana Tai Soon Burgess; Brazilian dancer "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
"As solar rays eclipse a desert turret, birds of prey, wings outstretched in flight, emerge in silhouette against a rocky ledge These, however are not natural canyon country sky dwellers They are members of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company creating ...
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 DANCES INCLUDED IN DANCE FOR THE EARTH: Sky Cloud: (1992) Metaphoric dance - the ...
Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life (Exhibition)
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 for live performance, played and sung, by the Hartwick Orff Ensemble for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association annual meeting held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, DC The ...
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, São 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.
"Maida Withers' love of risk and the unknown has led her and us through dozens of daring choreographic expeditions over the past decadeless interested in charming spectators than in prodding them into unexpected modes of perception, she's always preferred to ...