Category Archives: Work
Phase Tracing II and The Wall
Dates may be incorrect Check archives! Were Phase Tracing II and the Wall on the same dates? 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 ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] 1979 - "Fast paced dance of a recurring movement phrase where dancers interrupt and obstruct the motion of other dancers The movements used to interrupt and those movements that are interrupted are both manipulated and employed in the structural development ...
Entourage
LISTED IN THE CHOREOGRAPHY BUT NO OTHER NOTES 1979 - Entourage - Music by Joe Clark Performance: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
Phase Tracing I
1978 - Phase Trasing I, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist Performance where dancers create audio with movements of the body causing/dropping the projected ultra sound an octave into a level of audibility (Program note) "Dancing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sunday Maneuvers
1977 - Site-specific environmental/political performance event created for Theodore Roosevelt Island National Park Choreography/Collaborators, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews, John Bailey; Stilts, Brook Andrews; Jean Isaacs (pregnant) and Patrick Nollet performed in plants as nature Musicians performing in the mote, John ...
Time Dance: Found Audience – Found Space
1977 - The third version of Time Dance was an adaptation of dancers performing the choreography of the stage work, Time Dance, on the steep steps leading down to the Potomac River behind the Lincoln Memorial The performance occurred during ...
Put on the Music…Let’s Dance (1977)
[embed]https://vimeocom/105665739[/embed] View rehearsal, 1977: https://vimeocom/90683470 1977 - Forty-five minute show piece, a performance based on film dance of 1930s and 1940s An actress reminisces over memorabilia about her life as a stage dancer/actress of the 1940's There are short segments of entertainment ...
For Verabel
1977 - - The duet places the woman inside her home environment with a window, radio, bed springs suspended in the space The work has the lead solo figure, Ellen, in a dream of herself as a sexually attractive woman ...
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 ...
Time Dance (1976)
1976 - Quartet based on structure of pulse and accumulation The dance begins with finger snapping the pulse and dancers continue the finger snapping off and on during the first 10 minutes The pulse appeared in the movement or as ...
Bog Works
1975 - Installation performance with MWDCCo and John Driscoll, electronic composer/musician/sculptor, in the open theater space of Washington Project for the Arts in the earliest location on G Street, Washington, DC Bog Works featured an installation of unique homemade loudspeakers ...