Category Archives: Tours
Collision Course – a.k.a Pillow Talk – Brazil Street Festival
(2013) Collision Course - Pillow Talk May 5 @ 8º Festival Visões Urbanas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Street Festival Anthony Gongora, Maida Withers, and the audience perform in Pillow Talk, a script for performance and public/audience participation in the performance ...
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 ...
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 - 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 ...
Dance Works by International Women (Venezuela & DC)
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE/CARACUS, VENEZUELA & WASHINGTON,DC In 1997, Maida Withers Dance Construction Company toured to Venezuela to perform with Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo The Dance Construction Company invited Phffft Dance Company (Cyrus Khambatta, Washington, DC) to join the tour In 1998, Venezuela ...
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 The earth is the source, subject and process for Withers' current projects Each ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples (1992) May 12 Duet adaptation performed by Maida Withers and Dana Tai Soon Burgess as part of Dance Construction Company concert, Dance for the Earth, GALA Opening, OMAMA Projeto, National Theater, Brasilia, Brazil (See United Nation's ...
Laser Dance – Quest / Domain / Departure (tour)
[embed]https://vimeocom/92363777[/embed] Confirm dates in Virginia Touring Grant: DCCo newsletter: Fall, 1988-89 "The State of Virginia approved the Company for touring in Virginia with an award of $3500 in matching funds Residencies this year include Shenandoah College, Bridgewater College, and the Arlington ...
In Winds of Sand
[embed]https://vimeocom/101621322[/embed] In Winds of Sand - Maida Withers, solo (1992) - Premiere: talk with audience at conclusion "the act of being, creating with the earth!" [embed]https://vimeocom/7692794[/embed] Sands Cycles - FILM - Verabel Cluff - Filmmaker A large-scale projected installation of "dunes" slides and the exotic ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky
[embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] Trailer, Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky, TRAILER, Tania Fraga (05:00) 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 ...
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 present and past Dynamic, yet softly flowing movements, combine with projected slides ...
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 ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/58111383[/embed] Performance Documentary [embed]https://vimeocom/69312510[/embed] Projected Installation: Alex Caldiero, poet Anthony Gongora, film (2012) December 7 & 8 Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC A provocative dance theater work from associated memories, dreams, and nightmares, an off-beat yet delightful spectacle about the fiction and reality of ...