Category Archives: Turn of Century 2000 to 2020
ICE
(2006) ICE Maida Withers and Vincent Cacalano performed an improvised duet, ICE a SITE WORK that took place in the refrigerator/storage room for large blocks of ice that would be used by fishermen on their boats Gloucester is a fishing harbor in Gloucester, ...
Dance Film – ITVS Sampler
ITVS (Independent Television Service) sample for proposed film by MWDCCo for documentary film ITVS (Independent Television Service) is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS The proposed project was ...
In a World, Somewhere, Where There are NO Repetitions
(2022) October 7 & (2023) November 3 In A World Somewhere Where There Are NO Repetitions a poem and visual script created and performed/spoken"live" by Alex Caldiero, performance poet, with dancers improvising as directed by the script, as follows: In a ...
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 ...
GW Dance Technique as Performance
[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) Date In 2017, five dancers, students at George Washington University, studied with Maida Withers, to explore a course, Dance Technique as Performance The course was divided into four segments After three weeks of studying movement and movement phrases, the students ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky: Science and Art
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC (2001) date? Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky was sponsored by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the large domed Albert Einstein Planetarium, Washington, DC the week prior to ...
Naked Truth – Tzveta Artisphere Solo
[embed]http://vimeocom/31281607[/embed] 2011 - Tzveta Kassabova performs an excerpt of her solo from the 20 minute trio, Naked Truth, for Maida Withers Films at Artisphere Theatre, Arlington, VA Artisphere, an unusual curved stage in a large theatre with the seats moving upward ...
Dance Construction Company 1974 – 2006
https://vimeocom/16188943 Dance Construction Company: 1974-2006 (31:23) "This video is part of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Catalyst anniversary exhibition that highlights 35 years of WPA's history The WPA retrospective curated by JW Mahoney demonstrates the continuing uniqueness, resilience, and catalytic ...
Offering
[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) Solo from MindFluctuations, a work created and performed by Maida Withers, co-authored with virtual worlds created by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil Offering Choreography and performance by Maida Withers Costume by Maida Withers Music by John Driscoll and ...
Thresholds Crossed – Part I, TsEKh Residency
(2005) (get rid of underline) July 4 to 21 Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow, Russia - work in progress MWDCCo were guest artists-in-residence for three weeks in Moscow, Russia with the highly regarded TsEKh International Summer School (July 4-21,2005) In a ...
Catalyst (UnDress)
2005 (Founded in 1975) (Maybe Sept 26 & 27) 2011 must be incorrect Washington Project for the Arts 30th Anniversary Celebration in the American University's Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC Anthony Gongora and Tzveta Kasabova, MWDCCo dancers, danced throughout the Katzen ...
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 ...
60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE
USA / UKRAINE CHOREOGRAPHY: MAIDA WITHERS, USA - ANTON OVCHINNIKOV, Ukraine ELECTRONIC COMPOSER/MUSICIAN, STEVE HILMY, USA 60TH GALA ANNIVERSARY of the NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTER OF UKRAINE WORLD PREMIERE "60 MOVES with FUTURE GAZE" “scattering the ruins of the past for the sake of the future” Site Performance - ...
Dance and Politics: Couch Conversation
2016 February 16 DANCE AND POLITICS: COUCH CONVERSATION & PERFORMANCE International choreographers and activist artists, Maida Withers, Washington, DC, and Annika B Lewis, Denmark, engage, irreverently, in dialogue and performance exploring questions of politics and culture, today, in the USA and ...
MASQUERADE BALL – Blind Whino (40th Anniversary Celebration)
[embed]https://vimeocom/111740161[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/111806662[/embed] 2014 - In celebration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company’s 40th anniversary, Art Whino presented a Masquerade Ball at Blind Whino: SW Arts Club, full of mystery and surprise This full sensory experience combined performance art with experimental dance, live ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer (2008) FareWell and Hell-O Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage, a riveting "wake up call!" Alex and Maida have a substantive history of working ...
Hekuras (Visual Installation)
2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian technology (computer) artist, created original virtual worlds that became projected environments/installations on stage for the dances - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil, 2002) and Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (GW, 2010) and ...
TOUCH 3 International Festival Arkhangelsk, Russia
2004 - For TOUCH 3 (July 11 to 16) International Modern Dance Festival in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Produced and Directed by Nikolais Shchetnev We were honored to be part of this exciting and diverse professional festival MWDCCo directed an original site-specific ...