Category Archives: Social Issue
Laser 1 (1971)
(1971) Laser I (Duet) Laser I (Duet) was the first laser collaboration of Maida Withers with Rockne Krebs Maida and Rockne were associates on the Board of Directors for Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC The original choreography, by Maida, ...
Performatica: (FareWell) Tres-Dias-en-Cholula
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] (the above film will be replaced by a 2025 update by Linda Lewett) (2009) Documentary Film (29:20) Taped in Cholula, Mexico during Performática: International Forum of Contemporary Dance and the Art of Movement in 2009 Linda Lewett, filmmaker and collaborator with Maida ...
Still Rush – NYC Dancers
[embed]http://vimeocom/91811679[/embed] (1992) Still Rush (https://vimeocom/91811679) An impassioned work based on Withers’ pioneer ancestor’s migration from Missouri, Illinois, other locations, to territory in the Mountain West - a valley that became Salt Lake Valley History of Still Rush: Maida was invited to create ...
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 ...
Anonyty / Parts Unknown
Dance Photos by: Shaun Schroth 2015 November 14 - Anonyty explores the intimate boundary between our physical and digital identities, by bringing to life digital people that interact in our real world through movement and dance - a collaboration of Maida Withers ...
Collision Course: Gala Opening (Smith Center Healing & Arts)
[embed]https://wwwflickrcom/photos/103468415@N07/14219371009/[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/108083587[/embed] (2011) September 9 MWDCCo performed a "pillow dance," improvised for the Gala Opening of the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in their renovated gallery at 1632 U Street, NW, Washington, DC Dancers Nate Bond, Tzveta Kassabova, Anthony Gongora, ...
FareWell: Comments by Composer Steve Hilmy
[embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - a shortened version of the evenng-length work was performed by Maida Withers for Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y ...
Trans Action – ART LIVES HERE OR NOT!
(2014) September 20 Creative Placemaking Initiative Takes Site-Specific Dance into Hyattsville, MD "Art Lives Here celebrates Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company’s pivotal role in the 1970s dance revolution that became known as site-specific work" [embed]https://vimeocom/110949775[/embed] Mount Rainier, MD: On September 20th ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] (1992) February 7 and 8 Spirit Figures premiered in an evening of concert dances titled Dance for the Earth, Arlington, Virginia Dances in the evening-length program of five works, were created in commemoration and honored awareness of planet earth and ...
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
(1992 ) February 7 & 8 Messenger Eagle is a male solo in Dance for the Earth, an evening of dances celebrating the Earth, that pays homage to the important American symbol, the eagle In America, and especially with Native ...
Still Rush – MWDCCo Dance for the Earth
https://vimeocom/100908352 Still Rush: Open 41:51 - 52:47 End 1992 - Still Rush was performed in Washington, DC, February 7 and 8, 1992 by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company in the Dance for the Earth concert 1992 -Still Rush was performed in Brasilia, Brazil, May ...
Dances on Men and Women (Repertory)
(1984) - May 12 The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program presents: Smithsonian Salutes Washington Dance featuring Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company Presented by National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 8:00 pm Retrospective: selection of short duets and quartets created ...
Path
[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] (1989) - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company were selected for a two-week creative residency, May 9 to 21,1989, at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international center for art and ideas Other artist ...
Sphota Probe with Alex Caldiero
(2003) Alex Caldiero performance poet, scholar, author (Salt Lake City, Utah) performs live his poem, Sphota Probe, with dancers Maida Withers and Katia Chupashko Katia performs Thresholds Crossed SOLO (Katia Chupashko) created by Maida Withers using a vertical standing ...
Damned River
(1993) "Wind is power, the grass, people When winds blow the grass bends" Damned River is dedicated to Mariko, dance colleague in Kyoto, Japan A multimedia stage work for fourteen dancers that explores the dynamics of fascism in its subtle and ...
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 ...
Thresholds Crossed – Solo and Duet
Thresholds Crossed: Solo (2003) or Duet (2003) are NOT related specifically in concept or content to Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance - American & Russian dancers, 2006) Both dances are concerned with "thresholds that are crossed" but not the same reference/topic Note: ...
Still Rush – NYC Dancers Rehearsal
[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] (1990 or 91 December?) Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY Dancers for Still Rush were auditioned and selected by Maida Withers with Mino Nicholas Dance Company in New York City, for a work ...
Faces of the Fallen (World War II Memorial)
2004 - World War II Memorial Site event created by Maida Withers with six female dancers from The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, Washington, DC The Capital City has rich resources, monuments, statues, gardens, islands of political ...
Sunday Maneuvers
(1977) - October 16 (Sunday) Washington, DC Site-specific environmental/political performance event created for Theodore Roosevelt Island National Park Arlington, VA on the Potomac River Choreography/Collaborators, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews, John Bailey; Stilts, Brook Andrews; Jean Isaacs (pregnant) and Patrick Nollet ...
FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise
2008 - FareWell to the End of the World As We Know It or Dancing Your Way to Paradise "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan [embed]https://vimeocom/6643827[/embed] Dance Place Performance: http://vimeocom/17018474 Trailer: https://vimeocom/15561322 TOURS: 2008-2012 World Premiere: Zagrebi Festival! Zagreb, ...
Freedom of Information – 24 Hour Dance
[embed]https://vimeocom/473593512[/embed] (2008) December 31 and (2009) January 1 - Concept and invitation: Miguel Gutierrez 24-hour endurance event with Maida blindfolded and with ears plugged In response to the ongoing US military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, Miguel Gutierrez, NYC, invited artists across ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe
(2003) February 14, 15 One-woman show created and performed by Maida Withers in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC For this work, Withers life and artistic work parallel current scientific ideas and theories of the origin and fate/demise of the ...
LENIN
(2005) April 14 Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolay Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium" The work was ...