Category Archives: Work
State of the Art
1986 - State of the Art examines the conflict of art and the artist in American society The rapid development of arts management looms as a potential to independence and innovation by the artist Press Release: State of the Art ...
Laser Dance (Stage Performance Excerpts / Fairfax Cable, FCAC-TV)
1985 - Four-part evening-length space odyssey (Part I: Departure; Part II: Quest; Part III, Domain; Part IV, Rites/Skylight/and Departure) of choreography that takes place inside a large-scale installation of argon laser beams created by Rockne Krebs and Synclavier II music ...
Laser Dance – Suites of Light, Public Presentation
1985 - Laser Dance [embed]https://vimeocom/102179302[/embed] Laser Dance "Suites of Light" - Artists' public presentation of the creation of a multidisciplinary performance project The artists, with an audience of 300 people, explored how the multiple art forms (laser light beams, dance, and synvlavier ...
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, ...
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 diamond and many other changes occurred John Driscoll created and performed Music for Miniature Objects and spoken ...
Mr. and Mrs. Sally Ride
1984 - Maida Withers and Brook Andrews performed the charming Mr and Mrs Sally Ride in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to a large audience of tourists under the spaceships in the entrance Brook Andrews and Maida Withers were ...
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 ...
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 ...
Turf
1983 - Turf An Evening length feminist performance on women Olympians created in honor of the 1984 Olympics to be held in LA, California Olympic Films from the German Olympics (1936) and the Olympics in Japan (1962) and the 1976 ...
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 ...
Families are Forever
1981 - Families Are Forever is a four-part multimedia narrative presented at the Renwick Gallery of Art, Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution during the Memorial Day weekend May 28 and 29, 1981 or ?3 as a tribute to families ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] Audio sample: https://wwwdropboxcom/s/t3sv1een2crmtfr/Stall%20excerpt%209minwav?dl=0 1981 - Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers, a rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation, with dancers from Maida Withers Dance Construction ...
Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
1981 - an interview in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making or 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 ...
Woman See
1980 and 1981 - Woman See A politically charged feminist performance in eight parts with live music narrative, and mixed media conceived and directed by Maida Withers This work culminated a five-year period of Maida working, as a founding ...
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 ...