Category Archives: Tours
Pillow Talk – Visoes Urbanas, Brazil Street Festival
(2013) Pillow Talk, 8º Festival Visões Urbanas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Street Festival (date) Anthony Gongora, Maida Withers, and the audience perform in Pillow Talk, a script for performance and audience involvement in the park MWDCCo has participated in 5 ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Maida Withers)
[embed]http://vimeocom/17845659[/embed] (2010) FareWell - Tipping Point (December 3, 2010) Maida Withers @ Alwin Nikolais Centenniel Celebration Concert, NYC Live music live by Steve Hilmy, electronic composer/musician Original choreography by Maida Withers with Jadee Mitchell, GWU dancer Poems by David McAleavey: Shimmering Fragments: These sheer stripped-down shapes will ...
Dance of the Auroras – Part III – Magnetic Storm Seen From Above
2000 April 3-24 St Petersburg, Russia Residency with Kannon Dance School and Company • Maida Withers created Part III Magnetic Storm of Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky with Iwona Olszowska, dancer from Poland, and Sasha Kukin, dancer ...
RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: Resistance
RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ART and DANCE of Resistance THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ART Washington, DC presents January 20, 2019 USA: Maida Withers, Dance Construction Company UKRAINE: Anton Ovchinnikov, Black O!Range! Dance USA: Erica Rebollar, Rebollar Dance USA: Yoko K Sen, Sound Artist RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The ...
Spirit Figures (Dance for the Earth)
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] Spirit Figures is a ritual, a theatrical yet spiritual ritual, with larger than life "puppets" carried and manipulated by dancers/humans created from materials destructive to human life and to planet earth This dance takes a level of pride in worship and ...
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 ...
Under the Radar: Film – Russia Interviews
2003 Documentary Film - Interviews about post-modern dance in Russia in 2003 Documentary shot in St Petersburg, Russia Maida Withers was a guest artist for Summer Dance Workshop, OPEN LOOK Linda Lewett, filmmaker, shot the video and Maida Withers asked ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples (1994) May Tour: Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples was a solo performed by Maida in Seoul, Korea (May 2) followed by performance and teaching in Guangzhou, China and finishing the tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia In ...
Laser Dance – Quest / Domain / Departure (tour)
[embed]https://vimeocom/92363777[/embed] Confirm dates in DC??? (May 15, 16, 17, 1986 - Tour in Virginia, Feb 10 - May 15, 16, 17, 1985 or 6???) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Virginia State sponsored tour( February 10, 1985 - Shenandoah College & Conservatory) others?) Quest ...
In Winds of Sand
[embed]https://vimeocom/101630192[/embed] In Winds of Sand - the earth and the act of being - an installation performance Washington, DC - January 29 & 30, 1993 - World Premiere [embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] In Winds of Sand, Aula Magna Theater, Central University - Caracas, Venezuela - Nov 1, ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky, DC
[embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] 2001 A Four Part performance: I: "The Sun/Virtual Sun" II: "Solar Wind Towards Magnetosphere" III: "Magnetic Storm Seen from Above" IV: "View from the Earth" "A poetic journey through space using real-time interaction with cyber worlds and movies and images of the sun and the ...
Families Are Forever
" a genealogical gem" Washington Post Photo: National Theater, Washington, DC "Families, a four-part suite, is a tightly woven dance expressive of the subtle but powerful connections of families Dynamic, yet softly flowing movements, combine with projected slides and narrative to ...
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 ...
Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/6880178/43052b7309/[/embed] 2006 - Part I, II, III, IV: A fusion of East and West that explores the events, ideology and humanistic issues that link the US with the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia over four decades of time Colored by ...