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 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 Each dance listed below has a page, by name, in the digital collection ...
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 (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/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
[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 ...
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 ...