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): (1992) June 3 - June 14 / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Participants through international artists OMAME Projecto (May 15 ?- June 1) / Brasilia, Brazil, prior to Eco '92 Brazilian National Movement of artists for ...

Collision Course: Gala Opening (Smith Center Healing & Arts)

[embed]https://wwwflickrcom/photos/103468415@N07/14219371009/[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/108083587[/embed] MWDCCo performed an "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, and Giselle Ruzany ...

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 ...

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 (1992) May ...

Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)

(1992 ) 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 Americans, and other cultures ...

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 by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as part of Rolling Thunder in the Dance for the Earth  concert Still Rush was first titled, Passage, but was ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...