Category Archives: Museums/Galleries

LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge

LEGACY: 50 Years   Dance on the Edge   -   On View / Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Corcoran Flagg Building Galleries, 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC LEGACY_Exhibition Booklet HISTORY EXHIBITION - September 23 - October 23 Maida Withers and the Dance Construction ...

GW Dance Technique as Performance

[embed]https://vimeocom/211768902[/embed] 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This Space Occupied (by Maida)

[embed]https://vimeocom/60487039[/embed] 2013 - This Space Occupied (by Maida) is a 4-hour endurance event performed by Maida Withers, dancer/performance artist, with Steve Hilmy, electronic composer-musician  Maida performed in the elevated glass entrance way to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, historic Flagg Building, ...

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 ...

Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk-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 ...

FareWell and Hell-O

   2008 Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at theUtah Arts Festival  Alex was with Maida on the  Salt Lake City Library  Theatre Stage  spontaneously reciting and creating text and projecting the writing onto the background of the ...

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 ...

LENIN

005 - Evening-length political work created by Maida Withers for the historic Lenin Museum  in Krasnoyarsk Russia with 13 Russian dancers along with Nikolai Shchetnev and three American dance artists The work was first titled, "Memorium"  The work was part ...