Category Archives: Work
Dance of the Auroras – Part III Magnet Storm Seen From Above
Film/Video excerpts of MWDCCO for ITVS (2001 to 2012): submitted for consideration for a 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 ...
Embrace the Moment
(2023) Embrace the Moment is a beautiful, interactive, female duet created by Jen Clark Stone and Megan Thompson, with Maida Withers The "responsive" duet premiered September 23, 2023 for the OPENING EVENT of LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge, an ...
In a World, Somewhere,Where There are NO Repetitions
IN A World Somewhere Where There Are No Repetitions is 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 World Somewhere Where There Are No ...
Pnumbral Raincoast
(February 27, 1974 and February 28, 1974) Program says Thursday/Friday but those dates are Wednesday and Thursday???? Washington Project for the Arts/1227 G Street NW/Washington, DC Program information provided by John Driscoll, 7/6/2025 (physical program, difficult to read so typed information below) Steve ...
Wesleyan University – Music and Dance Residency
Maida Withers and John Driscoll were guest artists for a music and dance residency at Wesleyan University, June 10 to June ?, 1980 Students and the guest artists created work at various site locations on campus Students and guest artists ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk: Brazil Street Festival
Visões Urbanas - 2013 During a dance notation conference in Mexico (I remember it as Rio de Janeiro, but that is under discussion) after Maida performed a solo, she watched from the wings as a mature female, a stranger named Mirtes ...
PAMYATATY – UKRAINE
Note: PAM'YATATY DANCE FILMS INTRODUCTION: MAIDA WITHERS Click INTRODUCTION to view Maida Withers at Taras Shevchenko Memorial Park in Washington, DC - remarks presented at Ukraine dance site film showings June 4, 2025, Lviv, Ukraine, and June 22, 2025, Kyiv, ...
Apocalypse Fatigue
https://vimeocom/1081479749 12-minute live performance in Bunker Fridays, Washington, DC, May 2, 2025 Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time in the history of America, to speak openly about Apocalypse Fatigue! Maida Withers, legendary dancer, choreographer, activist performs “live” at Bunker ...
Ascenso – Buenos Aries, Argentina
Photos by: ASCENSO https://vimeocom/556604884 2014 Maida was in Argentina showing dance films in a university seminar She became acquainted with a musician, dancer, filmmaker, Maximiliano Wille, and became involved with an art and technology event between two universities in Argentina Maxi ...
Dance Portraits on Screen 2021
[embed]https://vimeocom/544797357[/embed] Dance Portraits on Screen 2021 This film by Maida Withers, choreographer, and Robin Bell, filmmaker, captures a portrait of young dancers, alone on screen for one minute, in Spring 2021 when COVID-19 was slowing down ...
Performatica: Tres-Dias-en-Cholula
Performatica 2009: 3rd Foro Internacional De Danza Contemporanea Artes de Nivunuebti founded in 2006 by Ray Schwartz and Myra Morales at the Universidad de las Americas UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico residency program [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] MWDCCo 2009 participation in Performatica 2009: Maida Withers created a site ...
Dance of the Auroras – Part III – Magnetic Storm Seen From Above
2000 St Petersburg, Russia (April 2000) Residency with Kannon Dance School and Company, St Petersburg, Russia • Maida Withers created Part III Magnetic Storm of Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky with Iwona Olszowska, dancer from Poland, and ...
Salon – Little Salon
2015, February 28, 2015 Evening Little Salon Event for the Arts and Social Engagement MWDCCo invited to give informal performance in historic high level (house of prostitution) in Wasington, DC Group of interested (mostly middle aged) patrons of the arts meet ...
GW Dance Technique as Performance
[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] (2017) 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 performed ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film (39:58)
[embed]https://vimeocom/468693246[/embed] 2020 Tukuhnikivatz Film (3958) Edit from original (1:03:45) Film festivals: to view and download Tukuhnikivatz use password: filmfestivals1313 For discussion of Tukuhnikivatz premiere presentation in Sao Paulo Brazil visit: https://youtube/vywdsBCnRII/ "I returned to the area of my birth with dancers to find ...
Rainforest Awakens
Tania Fraga Maida Withers Steve Hilmy RAINFOREST AWAKENS II [embed]https://vimeocom/471183584[/embed] https://vimeocom/470650599 DRESS REHEARSAL LIVE ZOOM REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE BROADCAST WEBINAR interactive telematic performance with maida withers | performance telemática interactiva com maida withers October 21st | 21 de outubro, 2020, 06h30 PM (EDT) – 19h30 (BRT) Support | Apoios: The ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky: Science and Art
(2001) Public presentation of aspects of 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 the premiere of the ...
LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge
MAIDA WITHERS AND THE DANCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet (click) HISTORY EXHIBITION - September 23 - October 23, 2022 Maida Withers and the ...
OPEN
Exhibition: "OPEN" by Robin Bell Corcoran School of Arts and Design Flagg Building, 500 17th Street, NW Tuesday–Friday, 10 AM–6 PM, 2019 Saturday and Sunday, 1–6 PM OPEN, an installation of lights and projections by artist Robin Bell, is a celebration of transparency, belonging, and ...
Art Soiree – Club Dancing
[embed]http://vimeocom/83694925[/embed] 2012- Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was invited to perform at a rock party at an extreme and very large dance club on the DC/Maryland border - Nate Bond, Giselle Ruzany, Maida Withers The sponsors presented very curious events to ...
Dune
1992 View DUNE In Winds of Sand: https://vimeocom/101621322 : (00:00:00 to 0:05:58) Also view DUNE in Earth Spirit Rising: https://vimeocom/9360613 9 (0:09:13 to 0:16:53) Dune or Moving Earth Dune is created and performed by Maida Withers that takes place with the full body mostly ...
Rainforest Awakens
RAINFOREST AWAKENS Artists come together "live and online" to explore beauty and crisis in a visionary 3D Rainforest! Maida Withers, noted dance artist, performs in iridescent 3D virtual worlds of Tania Fraga, Brazilian computer artist, in a sonic forest of sound by Steve Hilmy This occurred during the Corona ...
Naked Truth – Tzveta Solo With Film Installation
[embed]https://vimeocom/73873364/[/embed] 2012 - Tzveta Kassabova performs with Film Installation of Tzveta dancing her solo from Naked Truth as part of Involuntary Encounters Event in Dorothy Betts Marvin Center: An evening of diverse dances by dance artists, friends and former dancers with ...
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 was an unusual curved stage in a large theatre with the seats moving ...
Earth Spirit Rising
[embed]https://vimeocom/93606130[/embed] 1990 “It is my desire to bring to life, through dance, music, and visual imagery, the extraordinary physical and spiritual powers experienced when visiting the land of the four corners area in the Southwestern United States and to express the ...
Take Off
(Date TBD - 1968 ?) Maida Withers created Take Off, a metaphor for life based on the power of the airplane to aspire to greater heights and new adventures, with GW BA and MA dancers for performance in Dorothy Betts ...
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 ...
MWDCCo 1974 – 2006
Video excerpts of select dances from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company archives Concept/Choreography by Maida Withers with dancers Video currently on display on maidadancecom opening page Assembled for the Maida Withers: A Choreographer's Life, Exhibition in the Dimock Gallery" [embed]https://vimeocom/103766078[/embed] Excerpts - Maida ...
MWDCCo 1997-2006
This video is on the opening page of maidadancecom The video is a collection of excerpts from dances of MWDCCo It may also have been part of the Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life Exhibition in the Dimock Gallery It is ...
One Minute Wander
[embed]https://vimeocom/78919495[/embed] 2000 - Following an interview regarding her new dance work-in-progress, Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz, Maida Withers was asked by filmmaker Linda Lewett to extend the interview into a "nature" performance by the creek near Maida's ...
On Site: Nomad Dancer
[embed]http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=Tw4ZbyuRkCU[/embed] http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=Tw4ZbyuRkCU 2007 Maida talks about her life, living and creating art born from her own life experiences and philosophy The short video includes excerpts from site works: UtahSpirit PlaceSpirit PlanetTukuhnikivatz; Haldaa mound of waste; Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest; Sunday ...
Offering
MindFluctuation: Offering [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (solo) from MindFluctuations, created and performed by Maida Withers; Virtual World by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil See MindFluctations (2015),an evening-length performance, for complete information Maida Withers, solo performance, danced wearing the helmet to influence the ...
Monster Man (See MindFluctuations)
[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (7:29) (See - excerpt from MindFluctuations, 2015) Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work co-authored by Maida Withers, choreographer and artistic director (Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) MindFluctuations: Monster Man Choreography and performance by Anthony ...
Brazil_Eco ’92_Sugarloaf Mountain Site Work
1992_Maida Withers was invited by Marilyn Wood, international Celebration organization, to participate with "100 International Artists for Ecology" at the United Nation's first global Earth Summit, Eco '92 in Rio de Janeiro A partnering group was the leadership of the ...
Thresholds Crossed – Norilsk Performance
(2006) Luba Kusovnikova, producer and intellect, in Russia invited Maida Withers to attend an indigenous peoples conference in Norilsk, Russia and present a section of Thresholds Crossed as part of the conference Title of conference: Integrity of Cultural Space – the ...
Re-Re Voltaire – WPA 35th Anniversary – H Street Revitalization
2010 - May 10, 17, & 24, 2010: Re-Re Voltaire (Cabaret Voltaire) WPA sponsored a site event on H Street in celebration of their 35th Anniversary that take place in a vacant lot next to Gallery O/H at 1354 H ...
Mass – A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to us on the Sabbath
1972 Mass - A Fifth Generation Radiator Brought to Us on the Sabbath: A dance opera Choreography: Maida Withers w Sharron Rose Music: John Driscoll Dance Solo: Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) Dancers/Vocals: GW ...
Psychedelic Dance
1968-69 - Psychedelic Dance created by Maida Withers with GW Dancers Oil was mixed in water and videotaped and projected on dancers in white attire This dance was invited to be on Channel 4, NBC-TV However when we arrived at the ...
Essays Part I: Of the Mind; Part II: Of the Heart
1966 - Choreography with GW dancers explores the balance and conflict between the impulses of the mind and that of the heart Obviously that was of concern to the artist in the emerging Post-Modern expressive conversation Of the Heart Of the Mind Of ...
Phase Tracing Movements – Title???
The movements from Phase Tracing developed with four dancers These moves became Catching Butterflies and Other things that Move Need to do more research in the ARCHIVES This is a holding station for these photos Don, Maida, Diane
Gloucester New Arts Festival
Gloucester New Arts Festival (2005-2009) that specialized in site-specific art and theatre performances founded by Sarah Slifer, GW Dance Alumni, in Gloucester, MA - city on the sea outside of Boston Maida performed a solo, "Rage" in the theatre; and perform ...
Laser Dance _ Plastic Suits / NO Laser
Excerpts of Laser Dance were performed without the laser light installation Original Laser Dancers wore clear plastic suits for the performance at Glen Echo in the ballroom as part of a concert of dances by varied groups
Washington Project for the Arts – Performance
(1975 - ) Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW Festival in 1966 Artists joined in cleaning out the bird dung in a vacated building that was ...
Malaise
1969 – Malaise A pervasive vulgarity; 2 men 4 women; Premiere – Music: Dixon; Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC Brilliant undergraduate GW dancers including Julia Hart, Jim Bunting, Jeanne Jones (See http://maidadancecom/works/early-works-by-maida-withers-1966-to-1971/) Standing figure: Ulysses Dove (became Cunningham and Ailey dancer) ...
Sky Cathedrals – Media Project (Film 15:00)
1987 - Video project, "Obelisks," by Adam Peiperl, visual artist combined with dance on video The sculptural objects created by Adam have kaleidoscopic effect of based on the materials used to create the sculptures moving on a rotating plate as ...
Thresholds Crossed_TsEKh Residence, Part I
Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow - work in progress (2005) TsEKh International Summer School Residency to create and present Part I with 5 Russian and 6 American dancers, Moscow, Russia (July 4-24, 2005) Elena Tupsevya was instrumental in our holding ...
TUK I: Trailer (2:29)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=HKlR5x0f8EA&t=23s[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/99726485[/embed] https://vimeocom/99726485 (Trailer) TUK I (1:37) TUK (1:37) (2011) FILM - WEAK FORMATTING TUK (2:29) (2007) FILM Maida Withers and her art partner, Verabel Call Cluff, with the assistance of Joe Pachak, selected four locations (sites) in the Southeastern part of the State of Utah ...
Catalyst (UnDress)
2011 Anthony Gongora and Tzveta Kasabova, MWDCCo dancers, danced throughout American University's Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington, DC while taking clothes off and putting clothes on (no nudity) while doing a complex male/female duet for the Washington Project for ...
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 - ...
DIGG – a provocative excavation of the current political landscape
"Withers has created a work that spans the human experience of witnessing modern American politics: anxiety, fear, anger, nervous laughter and resilient hope" Cassie Patterson (2018) "Withers is a dance legend" Carmel Morgan (2018) https://vimeocom/390858979 [embed]https://vimeocom/258150770[/embed] 2018 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance experience created and ...
BLEEPERS
BLEEPERS Performed at WPA in the upper open theatre space on G Street Props – Five working bleepers (extra for during performance) – check police station for a newer model Lights - Amy Plummer Light Design – same six options, possibly floodlight lights or ...
No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica
[embed]http://vimeocom/226994154[/embed] No More Ping Pong Balls Performance Intervieux: Maida on Erica The life of Erica Rebollar, birthday girl and celebrant, exposed through an unclassified, no boundaries interview setup configured in a unexpected disorganization by dance artist friend and provocateur, Maida Withers Please throw your ...
ICEBERGS: Fault Line
Small Format Contemporary Dance Festival Yekaterinburg History Museum Yekaterinburg, Russia ICEBERGS: Fault Line August 26, 2016 @ 7:00 pm Panel Discussion: August 28, 2016 at noon Maida Withers premieres ICEBERGS: Fault Line a solo based on MWDCCo site work, GLACIAL DRIFT Music: electronic Composer / Musician ...
ICEBERGS: Glacial Drift
ICEBERGS National Building Museum Washington, DC presents GLACIAL DRIFT PREMIERE / 2016 Cool Evening with ICEBERGS Dance, Music, and Poetry in the Surreal Underwater-World of ICEBERGS [gallery ids="6111,6098,6110,6109,6108,6107,6106,6105,6104,6103,6102,6101,6100,6099,6097"] [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/EDehEZkThW4[/embed] GLACIAL DRIFT was one of National Building Museum's Block Party Late Nights that is part of its big summer installation ...
Dance and Politics: Couch Conversation
2016 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 Europe "Out of ...
IMPOSTERS
IMPOSTERS PROPOSED PROJECT Maida Withers / Dance Construction Company, USA, and Konstantin Grouss / Art-Residence, Russia, propose the creation of the performance project, Imposters, that explores the intimate boundary between our physical and digital identities, by bringing to life digital people, dance ...
Anonyty / Parts Unknown
Photos by Shaun Schroth 2015 Anonyty explores the intimate boundary between our physical and digital identities, by bringing to life digital people that interact in our real world through movement and dance - a collaboration of Maida Withers and Brian Kane, ...
Chain of Events – Kennedy Center
Video, Kennedy Center Archives: http://wwwkennedy-centerorg/explorer/videos/?id=M6136&type=A December 8, 2014 - Chain of Events sheer imaginative fallout of movement Presented by Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Date/Time: December 8, 2014 at 6:00 to 6:50 pm, FREE Location: Kennedy Center Theatre Lab; 2700 F Street, NW Washington, ...
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 ...
Collision Course (Pillow Improvisation) – Gala Opening Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
[embed]https://wwwflickrcom/photos/103468415@N07/14219371009/[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/108083587[/embed] MWDCCo performed an "pillow dance," improvised for the Gala Opening of the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in their renovated gallery at 1632 U Street, NW, Washington, DC Dancers Nate Bond, Tzveta Kassabova, Anthony Gongora, and Giselle Ruzany ...
Thin Holes / BYU Residency
1976 - Thin Holes, a new work created during a three week summer dance residency: Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company (Maida Withers, John Bailey, Brook Andrews) and John Driscoll, composer/musician, engaged in a three to four week residency ...
Dance In – Art Museum of the Americas and OAS
[embed]https://vimeocom/105550414[/embed] 2001 - Dance In - an evening-length site performance at the Art Museum of the Americas and site work in the Garden of the Organization of American States in Washington, DC with 30 Washington, DC dance and music artists that ...
FareWell: Comments by Choreographer Maida Withers
[embed]https://vimeocom/7113850[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During ...
FareWell: Comments by Composer Steve Hilmy
[embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During our ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero Maida Withers 2008 Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival Alex performed live on the stage with Maida on the Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage spontaneously reciting and creating text and projecting ...
Dance Portraits on Screen (Dance Films)
2011 - Concept for creating dance film shorts begun by MWDCCo in 2010 where the film making team collaborates with a selected artist (dancer/performance artist/others) to create a personal portrait (movement, language, life view, other) The initial goal was to ...
Hekuras (Visual Installation)
2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian Computer artist, created original virtual art 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) The virtual ...
Trans Action – ART LIVES HERE. OR NOT!
2014 - Creative Placemaking Initiative Takes Site-Specific Dance into Hyattsville, MD "Art Lives Here celebrates Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company’s pivotal role in the 1970s dance revolution that became known as site-specific work" [embed]https://vimeocom/110949775[/embed] Mount Rainier, MD: On September 20th at ...
Perfect Moment – WPA Mapplethorpe Exhibit (Film 9:48)
[embed]http://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=EjAyDfRVYTc[/embed] Documentary Film: Linda Lewett, Matt Dibble, Maida Withers 1989 - Video taped in 1989 at the height of the NEA censorship controversy Footage appeared on Oprah! and on newscasts across the country, and in 2011 for Culture Wars: Then and Now ...
I am a Nomad (FILM Short) (3:16)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=Tw4ZbyuRkCU&t=32s[/embed] 2007 - (3:15 min) a narrated video short by Maida about life and her dances around the issues "live art," excerpts of 6 site-specific projects This simple statement was created to show her restlessness (thus her nomadic nature) and her ...
Creating Dance THEN and NOW – Axis Gallery (Manchester, UK)
2013 - Manchester, United Kingdom Maida was guest artist for the Process/Product Symposia, AXIS Gallery, An International Festival and Conference on Improvised Dance, Metropolitan Manchester University, Cheshire Campus Participation included: ▪ Exhibition/Installation of MWDCCo dances and films “Creating Dance THEN and NOW” in ...
K.A.C. Int’l Exchange: Dance Concert Improvisation (50 anniversary Taejon. Korea)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102128125[/embed] 1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA improvised in a concert performance November 15, 1999, for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea Classical Korean musicians played for the ...
TOUCH 3 International Festival Arkhangelsk, Russia
2004 - For TOUCH 3 International Modern Dance Festival in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Maida directed an original site-specific work, In Grass Tall, that took place at the Merci Café (elevated space) and related streets in downtown Arkhangelsk, Russia Performers included Maida ...
Hilda Thorpe Tribute – Artists’ Studio Performance
December 4, 1999 - Birthday tribute to Hilda Thorpe at her Artists' Studio in downtown Alexandria, Virginia Maida collaborated with Thorpe, a brilliant American painter and sculptor - part of the illustrious Washington Color School - on several projects engaging the ...
Shocked and Odd – Live Art (Russia)
2005 - Shocked and Odd - Live Art was an idea encouraging extreme movement and character concepts for improvisation that took place in Russia with an American living in Amsterdam, two Americans living in the USA, and one dancer from ...
Solovky Island, Gulag Residency, Russia
[embed]https://vimeocom/429686550[/embed] 2004 - Solosphere Project took place on Solovky Island, White Sea of Russia - Art Angar Contemporary Center for Art (Hanger for the blimp that transported food and materials to the Gulag: Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora, dancers, Linda Lewett, ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] 1992 - Spirit Figures is part of Dance for the Earth created in commemoration and for the United Nation's Earth Summer (Eco '92) in Brazil Spirit figures were created from discarded items (trash, like plastic) that create horrific destruction to ...
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
1992 - In America, Native America, and many other cultures, the Eagle is admired and held in great reverence When working on the red earth sites in the Southwestern United States it is always a glorious moment when the Eagle ...
Still Rush – MWDCCo
1992 - Still Rush was performed in Washington, DC by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as part of Rolling Thunder in the Dance for the Earth concert Still Rush was first titled, Passage, but was changed for performance The concept is ...
Fascination – Improvisation in Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/99629619[/embed] 1994 -Jey Young Kim and Maida Withers improvise in concert in Washington, DC to a poem Fascination, by Young Tai Kim, Korea, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel As in life we go through a ...
Black on Black / Slam and Wham
2004 - Collaboration of Maida Withers and Wendell Cooper, NYC, with American Composers Forum musicians in a performance at Flashpoint, downtown Washington, DC exhibition and performance space Our goal was to create an improvised dance where the stage was treated ...
Cuba – Santiago de Cuba: In the Eye of the Beholder (Short Film 10:00)
2007 - This informal film short reveals Maida's brief engagement with the people and culture in Cuba Sensual dance, jazz music, voodoo, religion, and revolution are part of the Haitian-Afro-Cuban culture of Santiago Maida visited Cuba for ten days, February 5-10, ...
Cuba – Havana Today – 2007 (Documentary Short 8:39)
2007 - Maida visited Havana from her stay in Santiago de Cuba and made this simple record of the sights and sounds on the streets of Havana, Cuba with her Sony mini-dv camera Fidel Castro was gravely ill on the ...
Entourage
LISTED IN THE CHOREOGRAPHY BUT NO OTHER NOTES 1979 - Entourage - Music by Joe Clark Performance: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
Invocation to Sustainability
2010 - Under the direction of Maida Withers, dancers from the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre (2010) performed the opening ceremony at "The Friends" Angels Landing, dancing with hand-held chimes at the kick-off event for the 4th Amazing EarthFEST in Kanab, ...
Vessel (PILLOWS)
2012 - Commission to perform for the opening Gala of the new Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, 1632 U Street NW, Washington, DC, September 9, 2012 Live electronic music was created and performed by Steve Hilmy with dancers Nate ...
Africa Comeback Women-Film, Meru, Kenya (Film 9:40)
[embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=a1nwnRYuHxQ[/embed] DCC Photos (many videos and photosneed a decision????_ 2007 - During a second trip to Kenya, Africa, Maida visited Meru at the invitation of Karambu Ringera, Kenyan political and social activist who was building a school, providing space and incentives for ...
Cuba – Trumpet Man – Inaudis Paisan Mallet (Film Short 7:08)
2007 - Maida visited Cuba for ten days, February 5 - 10, 2007 to study the dance/text/ritual of the Cutumba Ballet Folklorico Santiago de Cuba Jim Lepore, dancer/choreographer/professor, made this trip possible Beloved and revered trumpeter, Inaudis Paisan Mallet, plays and ...
Dance Works by International Women (Venezuela/DC)
October 31 to November 2, 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) to join in the tour MWDCCo was honored to ...
Stone Garden UN Earth Summit
June 5, 1992 - Evening-length site work created by Maida Withers in collaboration with dancers (Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Stacy Palatt, Janine Ploetz, USA, and Celia Portilho, Brazil) musicians (Digerdoo by Craig Gibson and Harold Gent), rock carving sculptor (Ken ...
Maida Withers Dance Concert Celebrates Founding of MWDCCo
1974 - Maida Withers Dance Concert MWDCCo applied for federal 501-C-3 tax-exempt status as a non-profit cultural organization in 1974 501-C3 Status was achieved in 1976 Dance Concert by Maida Withers included four dances and several dancers who became co-founding members ...
Pnumbral Raincoast and other performances
Washington Project for the Arts, Thursday, Feb 27, 1975 and Friday Feb 28, 1975 at 1227 G Street NW (Year in question) Program: Listening Out Loud John Driscoll (Steve Bloom, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein) Wild Song - Julie Schwartz (Thursday only) NOMESPUS (Friday, only) ...
Dance, Dance, Dance TV Series, NBC
1978 Dance, Dance, Dance was a ten-part series about professions in dance, 30-minutes each program, produced by Sandra Butler and narrated by Maida Withers, consultant The series was shown in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, DC Each ...
Early works -1966 to 1973
1964 thru 1973 - Works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company Performers included dancers from the community and MA and BA dance alumni or students at George Washington University Regrettably, ...
Dance / Music Columbus Museum of Art
Past Informtion in red deleted: https://maidadancecom/works/changing-the-system/ TITLE DELETED FROM THE WEB 1974 - The performance at the Columbus Museum of Art was during the public celebration of the change of the name from Gallery of Fine Arts to Columbus Museum of Art, ...
Earth Meets Sky
1980 - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company collaborate with seventeen Washington, DC dancers performing an evening-length dance improvisation script to music improvised by Steve Bloom, Michael Manring, and Chris Beaven in GW's Studio K Theatre, Washington, DC Performance may ...
Whose Shoes Are These Anyway
1982 - Solo performance by Maida Withers (8 minutes) based on dancer as athlete This performance provided the basis of original materials on Olympian female athletes that was later developed for a group of dancers in the work titled, Turf ...
Dances on Men and Women (Repertory)
1984 - Retrospective - selection of short duets and quartets created by Maida Withers for the Dance Construction Company, 1974-1984, presented by the Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum - overtones of feminist notions about WOMAN Program in file Excerpts from dances ...
Dance Improvisation Performances
1972 - Starting in 1972, every six to 10 weeks, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews, John Bailey, and GW MA graduate students created dance and movement improvisation events in GW's Building K gymnasium and Building J dance studio spaces and in ...
Path
[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] 1989 - The Company was selected for a two-week residency, May 9 to 21,1989, at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international center for art and ideas The Institute supported the Company with living quarters, ...
This Space Occupied
https://vimeocom/519137167 1998 - DC 4th International Improvisation Plus+ Festival taking place in an evening-length performance in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, downtown Washington, DC Dancers and musicians, improvising artists from DC, NYC, Germany, England, South Africa, and France, occupy the entire Corcoran ...
Sands Cycles
Question regarding the location of this performance: Dance Place, Marvin Center Theatre???? Check program in archives [embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] View Spirit Path/Migration also on Earth Spirit Rising as a QUARTET: https://vimeocom/93606130 ( 0:32:50 to 0:48:50) 1990 - Spirit Path / Migration is a duet conceived and ...
Utah Project
[embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears Bruce Hucko, Photograph “In 1988, I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with a group of artists for a five-week experiment of living and dancing on selected land ...
Going Beyond…an Odyssey (Corcoran Gala)
2002 - Maida Withers was commissioned to create an event for the Corcoran Gallery of Art Gala Benefit, Going Beyond, an Odyssey, Friday, February 22, 2002 for over 900 guests Eighteen dancers, men and women, were dressed in turtle-neck long ...
3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)
[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002 - Maida Withers collaborates with Dan Sternklar, 3D filmmaker and inventor, to create 3D Dance / Future View, a 3D film of an improvised site performance that resulting in the film short (4:04 time) Dan Sternklar, 3D camera specialist ...
Sphota Probe with Alex Caldiero
2003 - Alex Caldiero performance poet, scholar, author (Salt Lake City, Utah) performs live his poem, Sphota Probe, with dancers Maida Withers and Katia Chupashko Katia performs Thresholds Crossed SOLO (Katia Chupashko) created Maida Withers using a vertical standing casket ...
Damned River
1993 - "Wind is power, the grass, people When winds blow the grass bends" Damned River is dedicated to Mariko, dance colleague in Kyoto, Japan A multimedia stage work for fourteen dancers that explores the dynamics of fascism in its subtle ...
Dance for the Earth
1992 - Title given to the evening-length performance that included the following six dances related to Maida's earth consciousness projects: Sky Cloud (1992), Prologue - Cowboys and Indian Play (1991), Messenger Eagle (1992), Still Rush (1991), Rolling Thunder "Transformation" (1992) Dance for the Earth was presented ...
Thresholds Crossed – Solo and Duet
(2003) SOLO: Katia Chupashko, dancer for the first work created by Maida Withers based on the ideas that were evolving for the eventual evening-length performance Thresholds Crossed (2006) Katia emerged from a red standing casket into a diagonal light Each time ...
Scat
1986 - Scat is an excerpt of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company work, Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex Scat is a loose-limbed spoof reminiscent of Be-Bop Scat was performed as a trio with Melody Joy Ruffin, Taffy Schaeffer-Merkert and Annetta ...
Still Rush (Original Cast – NYC, NY)
[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY View performances of Still Rush by MWDCCo: https://vimeocom/100908352 and https://vimeocom/101001560 Premiere performance was January 12 and 13, 1991 at Dance Place, Washington, DC, as part of an evening titled ...
Prologue – Cowboys and Indians Play by Maida Withers
[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] 1992 - Short solo dance and written text spoken by Maida Withers - a view of the west as a cowgirl and the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers in Utah Presents that wit that underlies many of Withers' works - ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Videos - Phase Tracing, Phase Tracing I, Phase Tracing II movement phrase materials related to creation of the complex choreography in Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move References: https://maidadancecom/works/phase-tracing-movements-title/ https://vimeocom/90693028 https://vimeocom/90679290/ Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move: 1979 - "Fast paced dance of ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe – Visual Installation
2003 - Video history, selection of segments of choreography by Maida Withers that were projected on stage as a visual installation during the live performance of Maida on Maida in the Universe In essence Maida compares her creative process with ...
Put on the Music…Let’s Dance (1975)
1975 or 1976 - This performance took place at the Washington Project for the Arts on 1227 G Street NW, Washington, DC The space was a very large space (third floor) with high ceiling and a red brick wall for ...
Collision Course…2-3episode-1-2-3/ (Artisphere)
2011 - Three sections of Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) were performed at Artisphere, a museum and performance center in Arlington, Virginia, October 21, 2011 The Dome Theatre features a full size film ...
Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
1981 - an interview in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers This work followed five years involvement by Maida and other Mormon women ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses-2013
2013 - An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on George Washington University dancers and performed on DanceWorks November 14, 15, 16, 2013 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Originally choreographed by Maida Withers with founders of ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film Installation (60:00)
[embed]https://vimeocom/8077130[/embed] 1996 and 1997 - Tukuhnikivatz (film) (01:03:45) - created for projection on the 60' x 60' Band Shell as part of the evening-length multimedia production Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors GREAT DANCE ...
InVoluntary Encounters
2012 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and guest artist choreographers and dancers from NYC, Boston and Japan create an interactive event of dance, live video feed, film, and electronic music that features improvisations by choreographers who perform and a ...
FareWell: Comments by Media Artist Ayo Okunseinde
[embed]https://vimeocom/7113378[/embed] 2009 - FareWell - Interview of Ayo Okunseinde about his work with Maida presented at Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y Artes del Movimiento, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2009 During our residency Linda Lewett interviewed Maida Withers, choreography/dancer, ...
Earth Dancer, UN Earth Summit, Interview, GW Magazine
Interview - Earth Dancer - GW Magazine, page 22, Summer 1993 "This interview is dedicated to all those with whom my life has intersected" Maida Withers Maida Withers is interviewed on her views of dance, dancing, making dances, collaborating, experimenting, having ...
When Maida Moves, Interview, CBS-TV
1985 - "When Maida Moves" Television (Capital Edition) special and interview, CBS Channel 9 - Studio 11, Washington, DC Choreographer/dancer, Maida Withers, is featured with members of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Brook Andrews, Dale Crittenberger, Susan Short Bensinger, Susan Jamieson, ...
Obsession – Suite Elvis Solo by Maida Withers
1986 - Solo by Maida Withers was featured, in Obsession - America's Obsession With Sex, as the dancer performing the"Elvis" figure at the Publick Playhouse, Prince George's Playhouse in Prince George's County, Maryland, December 4, 5, 6, 1986 In all ...
Obsession – Maida Withers, Interview, FCAC-TV
1987 - Maida Withers is interviewed for FCAC (Fairfax Cable Access Corporation) Fairfax, Virginia about the dance work, Obsession - America's Obsession With Sex The Interview is mixed with excerpts from the documentary video of Obsession Linda Lewett and Judy ...
Time Dance: Found Audience – Found Space (1977)
1977 - This version of Time Dance was an adaptation of dancers performing selected segmants of choreography from the stage work, Time Dance, on the steep steps leading down to the Potomac River behind the Lincoln Memorial The performance occurred ...
Time Dance (1984)
1984 - Restaging choreography of 1976 version of Time Dance for performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre The square was adapted to a very large diamond rather than the original square space at Mt Vernon HandChapleand many other changes occurred ...
Dance of the Auroras – Virtual Virgins, Le Sol, Shaman
2000 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was honored to be invited to perform as part of the Dance Place 20/20 Visions Anniversary Concert celebrating 20 years of sponsoring and presenting dance In the year 2000, Dance of the Auroras ...
Nose to cement and other falling tales told on the way down, GW dancers
[embed]http://vimeocom/88541985[/embed] Please reference Pitfallsnose to cement and fall tales told on the way down (trio by members of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company) GW Dancers: The original performance was done by thirteen GW dancers Stories about falling down were recorded by members ...
A Moving Interview, Maida Withers, Argentina
Note: Maida had traveled many times to Brazil, starting with the United Nation's Earth Summit in 1992 She discovered that the price to fly to Argentina was very affordable from Brazil, so that instigated her travels there Lujan Oulton, with ...
MindFluctuations Numeric Variations Residency Brazil
[embed]https://vimeocom/81430645[/embed] [embed]http://vimeocom/121074310[/embed] 2014 - Maida Withers participated in a residency at the Institute of Mathematics and Art (Instituto de Matematica e Arte) in São Paulo, Brazil in February 2014 As a passionate advocate for the collaboration of art and technology, she and ...
Crossing the Edge
[embed]https://vimeocom/91535011[/embed] 1991 - A physically aggressive duet danced to a saxophone score The dancers establish a rapport on the ledge between Earth and Sky - dancers John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi at Dance Place January 12 and 13, 1991 Crossing the ...
Spirit Path / Migration / Remains
[embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] Must revisit hard copy in archives to ascertain any video, etc Does the concert at Dance Place include: Spirit Path / Migration / Remains, Crossing the Edge with John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi, and Still Rush with the NYC cast ...
Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life
April 13 - April 21, 2006 - An exhibition at the Dimock Gallery in Washington, DC - a retrospective of photographs, video, and costumes that celebrates 35 years of innovative works by Washington's noted groundbreaking dancer and choreographer, Maida Withers A ...
Under the Radar: Modern Dance in Russia with Maida Withers
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 ...
Thresholds Crossed – Gulag / Art Angar (Film 3:51)
SEE LARGE PHOTOS on web page FLICKR 2004 - Political dance film, shot first half of Part II of Thresholds Crossed duet of Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora Shot in unique Soviet Era architectural structure, Solovky Island Russia on the White ...
From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things
[embed]http://vimeocom/108531246[/embed] 1967 - Maida created this 16mm film as part of her educational engagement with dance for children Maida was an active participant in the inauguration of the USA national Artist-in-Schools initiative that brought artists into public schools for curriculum development ...
Dance/Sound Events: Tin Tabernacle Series
1973 - 1974 Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented five evenings, Dance/Sound events, the Tin Tabernacle Series,with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll, in a very large and dome-shaped building, fondly, referred to as Tin Tabernacle Tin Tabernacle was a large GWU gymnasium with ...
Iwo Jima – US Marine Corps War Memorial
1976 - "In honor and in memory of the men of the United States Marine Corps who have given their lives to their country since November 10, 1775" MWDCCo with a permit to be on the grounds, dancers climbed the memorial ...
Pitfalls – nose to cement and other falling tales told on the way down
[embed]https://vimeocom/92275174[/embed] View: Pitfalls, MWDCC 1999 -Three dancers with MWDCCo perform choreography involving falling and not falling while stories about falling were told by audience members invited to come to the microphone and tell the story during the performance The trio had it's ...
For Verabel
1977 - "For Verable, a female duet created in recognition of the separation and eventual divorce of two of my (Maida's) dearest Mormon friends, Verabel Call Cluff and Tony Cluff, parents of children, good friends of my children" The duet ...
Orff Suite
1977 - Dances created by Maida Withers for the Dance Construction Company with live accompaniment by The Hartwick Orff Ensemble for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, DC on Thursday, November 10, 1977 The video ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance I
1977 - Give the Dancers Castenets: The first evening-length collaboration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company with performance poet, Chasen Gaver, Dance Project, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC with Sculptor, Edward LeBoe; Architect, Terry Rosenheck Chasen Gaver wrote new poems and selected ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance II
1978 - Baby It's About Time! an absurd and outrageous social commentary event performed by dancers with Washington, DC's most controversial performance poet, Chasen Gaver Chasen Gaver performed his poems sometimes using small hand-held instruments Performing in cabaret style, he ...
Sky Cloud
Stacy Palatt, David Bentley, Dana Tai Soon Burgess 1992 - Dance work created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female artist from the 1950s Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white gauze ...
Tzveta II Portraits on Screen (Film 4:37)
https://vimeocom/32234616 2011 In TZVETA II, Ayo Okunseinde combines graphic design and 3D effects in the exploration of the subtlety and action of Tzveta Kassabova's movement in a dynamic pop art short For TZVETA II the filmmaker ventures to the edge of ...
Tzveta I Portraits on Screen (Film 7:42)
Tzveta Kassabova; Adam Peiperl, Photographer 2011 - In TZVETA I, Anthony Gongora creates a portrait of Tzveta Kassabova employing intense imagery to reveal the flow of a beautiful life, layered and complex and driven by movement through imagined spaces, saturated with ...
Phase Tracing II and The Wall
Conflicting information on dates of Phase Tracing II and THE WALL Phase Tracing II February 29, March 1, and March 2, 1980 and or April 27, 1979 1979 - Phase Tracing II Performance developing the movements discovered in Phase Tracing I - dancers interrupting ...
Wet and Wonderful in Washington DC (National Plaza)
1983 -Wet and Wonderful in Washington, DC (Western Plaza) - a dance, music, and water sculpture event conceived by Maida Withers constructed in collaboration with John Bailey, Rogelio Maxwell, MWDCCo and the dancers, and Susan Jamieson This site event was an ...