Category Archives: Turn of Century 2000 to 2020
Data to Dance: (Film) Dance of the Auroras
https://vimeocom/5611892 Web Page: maidadancecom/works/data-to-dance-dance-of-the-auroras/ (2009) Data to Dance: (Film) Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky (28:30) A magical documentary film eloquently reveals the relationship of science and the wonder of Earth's Auroras through the arts of dance and music Data to ...
Interview: Maida “View of Dance in Russia”
INTERVIEW - August 2016 - Yekaterinburg, Russia Interview of Maida Withers by Ruslan Khisamutdinov, Russian journalist, regarding Maida's view of dance in Russia past and present: Interview in Russian language: http://культураекатеринбургрф/articles/569/i193372/ Interview (below) in English: Ruslan Khisamutdinov Question: I read that you visited Russia many times ...
ICE – Ice House Series
(2005) ICE August 11, Ice House Series - Live Arts, Gloucester Massachusetts New Arts Festival: Maida Withers and Vincent Cacalano performed an improvised duet, ICE, a site work that took place in the refrigerator/storage room (Cape Pond Ice) with dancers performing ...
Dance Film – ITVS Sampler
(2001 - 2012) Film Sampler - (Independent Television Service) GRANT - Not selected 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 ...
In a World, Somewhere, Where There are NO Repetitions
(2022) October 7 & November 3 Gala Celebration, November 7, 2022 - 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 Dance Construction Company dancers ...
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 ...
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 ON MRW Z DRIVE LINDA TRANSFER2025 (2009) "Documentary Film (29:20) Cholula, Mexico during Performátic, an International Forum of Contemporary Dance and the Art of Movement in 2009 in ...
GW Dance Technique as Performance
[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) April 5 ok 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, ...
Auroras Dance 2001
(2001) Auroras Dance 2001 February 3, at 6:00 pm Smithsonian Air and Space Einstein Planetarium / 6th Street & Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC FREE, Seating Limited In the immersive environment of the Smithsonian Planetarium, the dancer as shaman leads the ...
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 VIDEO EXCERPTS – 1974 to 2006
Excerpts from DANCES - historical video footage: 1974 to 2006 (17:10) Second edition - updated technology Included in this edition are excerpts of the Russian/American project, Thresholds Crossed (2006) Below: Excerpts of video from select dances from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company archives, 1974 ...
Offering
[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) March 19 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 ...
Thresholds Crossed – Part I, TsEKh Residency
(2005) July 4 to 21 (2005) July 4 to 21 Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow, Russia - residency to create and perform work in progress MWDCCo were guest artists-in-residence for three weeks in Moscow, Russia with the highly regarded TsEKh ...
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 or 28??? 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 ...
MASQUERADE BALL – Blind Whino (40th Anniversary Celebration)
[embed]https://vimeocom/111740161[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/111806662[/embed] (2014) December 8 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, ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer (2008) FareWell and Hell-O June 28 and 29 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 ...
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 ...
Vessel (PILLOWS)
2012 - Vessel (pillows, trio) September 9 Documentary performance video: Opening Gala - Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, 1632 U Street NW, Washington, DC Live electronic music: created and performed by Steve Hilmy; dancers: Nate Bond, Anthony Gongora, Tzveta Kassabova, ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Episodes 1-2-3 (Artisphere)
(2011) October 21 Excerpts - work-in-progress presentation to a sold out crowd in the Dome building in Rosslyn, Virginia Three sections from Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) performed October 21, 2011 at Artisphere, a ...
Shocked and Odd – Live Art (DC)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102180708/[/embed] Live Arts Festival: Dancers and musicians improvise - Shocked and Odd 2004 - December 3 and 4 "Shocked and Odd" - New Arts Festival, Gloucester, Massachusetts, a "Live Arts" Festival that encouraged extreme movement and character concepts thru improvisation "Live Arts" ...
MAIDA 11 (Film): Dance Portraits on Screen
[embed]https://vimeocom/31915980/[/embed] (2011) MAIDA 11 (02:54) (Film) - Dance Portraits on Screenn Film short featuring Maida Withers in a whimsical struggle for artistic enlightenment and risk taking with animation by Callison Slater Shot in Bella Faccia, Inc television studio on the actual green ...
Investigation of Late
2002 - May 3 & 4 Investigation of Late, duet by Maida Withers and Lotta Lundgren with trombone music created and performed live by Cam Miller The female duet was presented at Marvin Betts Theatre on the program, Five Views ...
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 ...