Category Archives: Work
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, ...
MindFluctuations
MINDFLUCTUATIONS DANCE, NEUROSCIENCE, VIRTUAL ART, LIVE MUSIC A Java 3D application drives the participants within a metaphorical virtual reality journey World Premiere / Lisner Auditorium March 19, 2015 Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/126002412[/embed] MindFluctuations: Sections performed independently [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Monster Man: https://vimeocom/128670434 [embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Woman: https://vimeocom/129210568 [embed]https://vimeocom/129210568[/embed] MindFluctuations, a groundbreaking collaboration between dance, neuroscience, 3D projected computer art, and live electronic ...
Offering
MindFluctuation: Offering [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Solo from MindFluctuations, created and performed by Maida Withers; Virtual Worlds by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artists, Sao Paulo, Brazil See MindFluctations for complete information
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 ...
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 is throwing a Masquerade Ball at Blind Whino: SW Arts Club, full of mystery and surprise This full sensory experience will combine performance art with experimental ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Moving Interview, Maida Withers, Argentina
MOVING INTERVIEW Web page in Argentina with video and descriptions: https://productoraobjetoawordpresscom/2014/02/26/entrevista-performatica-a-maida-withers/ Moving Interview Original unedited footage - Maida improvised talking and dancing as Arceli Marquez, asked questions [embed]https://vimeocom/554723257[/embed] The footage here is unedited It contains the total interview (55:00 minutes):| Three minute version of the moving ...
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 ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses (2013 – original 1974)
2013 - An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on GW 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 the Dance ...
Electronic Bodies
2013 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Anthony Gongora, Giselle Ruzany, Maida Withers and guest, Felipe Oyarzun (Chile) were joined by experimental composers/musicians, John Driscoll, New York, and Steve Hilmy, Washington, DC, to present Electronic Bodies, an evening of dance ...
Chroma
2013 - Late Night Expressions at Joe's Emporium for various art forms (dance, comedy, performance art) MWDCCo dance and music Improvisation performance with a script centered on lime green and orange objects (chair, marley strip, electrical cord, others) that was danced ...
Matrimony – To Sink or Swim!
2013 - Two couples, dressed in full wedding attire, frolic dangerously on the edge of the swimming pool, eventually submerging and reemerging in the passionate wrestle for survival- a metaphor for marriage - to sink or swim! Dancers perform to ...
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 ...
Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
2012 - A provocative dance theater work from associated memories, dreams, and nightmares, an off-beat yet delightful spectacle about the fiction and reality of LUV for the digital age This evening-length multimedia dance theater work about LUV for the digital ...