Category Archives: Work
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky: Science and Art
A public presentation 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 stage ...
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
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 ...
K.A.C. Int’l Exchange (Taejon)
Korea – KAC Int’l Exchange (Taejon) 1999 – Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA and Korean classical instrumentalists improvised in concert performance November 15, 1999, for the K A C International Exchange Modern Dance ...
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 ...
Dance Construction Company 1974 – 2006
[embed]http://vimeocom/16188943[/embed] 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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 Choreography - Maida Withers with Tzveta Kassabova Dancer - Tzveta Kassabova Music - Steve Hilmy performs live Maida ...
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 ...
Chain of Events
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, ...
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 dance by dance artists, friends and former dancers with MWDCCo 2012 ...
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 ...
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; Music: John Driscoll; Soloist, Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) (GW MA dance student at the time) was a brilliant dance soloist with a cast ...