Category Archives: Work
Pitfalls – nose to cement and other falling tales told on the way down
[embed]https://vimeocom/92275174[/embed] View: Pitfalls, MWDCC 1999 -Three dancers with MWDCCo perform choreography involving falling and not falling while stories about falling were told by audience members invited to come to the microphone and tell the story during the performance The trio had it's ...
This Space Occupied
https://vimeocom/519137167 1998 - DC 4th International Improvisation Plus+ Festival taking place in an evening-length performance in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, downtown Washington, DC Dancers and musicians, improvising artists from DC, NYC, Germany, England, South Africa, and France, occupy the entire Corcoran ...
Dance Works by International Women (Venezuela/DC)
October 31 to November 2, 1997 Maida Withers Dance Construction Company toured to Venezuela to perform with Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo The Dance Construction Company invited Phffft Dance Company (Cyrus Khambatta) to join in the tour MWDCCo was honored to ...
Nose to cement and other falling tales told on the way down, GW dancers
[embed]http://vimeocom/88541985[/embed] Please reference Pitfallsnose to cement and fall tales told on the way down (trio by members of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company) GW Dancers: The original performance was done by thirteen GW dancers Stories about falling down were recorded by members ...
Seeing Jazz Move – Smithsonian International Gallery
https://vimeocom/519283804 1997 - Seeing Jazz Move - Dance and Music Improvisation performance inspired by the exhibition "Seeing Jazz" presented by the Smithsonian International Gallery - S Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, December 5, 1997 at 6:30 pm FREE Dance and the event, ...
Halda – a mound of waste (Bytom, Poland)
1977 - An evening-length site performance commissioned by Slaski Teatre Tanca for the 1997 International Dance Conference and Festival in Bytom, Poland This outdoor performance was created with four Polish dancers from the Eksperymentalne Studio Tanca in Kracow, Poland and ...
Nevertheless…Tenderness
1997 - Duet between Maida Withers and Sarah Slifer that features the relationship between a mature woman and a young woman Toured to Venezuela, Korea, and Brazil NeverthelessTenderness was performed at the Aula Magna Theatre, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, ...
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz
1996 - an evening length multimedia installation and performance based on ancient and contemporary earth consciousness commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors, GREAT DANCE in the Band Shell Series, Damrosch Park, New York City, NY ...
Tukuhnikivatz: Film Installation (60:00)
1996 and 1997 - Tukuhnikivatz (film) - created for projection on the 60' x 60' Band Shell as part of the evening-length multimedia production Utah Spirit Place Spirit Planet Tukuhnikivatz at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors GREAT DANCE in ...
Dance In – Art Museum of the Americas and OAS
[embed]https://vimeocom/105550414[/embed] 2001 - Dance In - an evening-length site performance at the Art Museum of the Americas and site work in the Garden of the Organization of American States in Washington, DC with 30 Washington, DC dance and music artists that ...
Stone Circle
1995 - Stone Circle (performance prepared in Washington, DC as Stone Ring with the principal collaborators and several GW MFA / BA dancers (See Stone Ring work in archive) On arrival in Tokyo, several costumes had been prepared by an associate ...
Stone Ring
1995 - Residency with international artists, Maida Withers, Marilia (Japan/Brazil/America), and Stephen Lockwood in Washington, DC to create an evening-length work performed in Studio J Theatre at GW The residency was held for the major artists to explore ideas for ...
One Too Many (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Work created by Maida Withers for the Kuala Lumpur Ballet Company, Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia under the direction of Lee Lee Lan (no documentation) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (May 22 -29, 1994) Kuala Lumpur Dance Theatre, Director and Founder Lee Lee Lan; Kuala ...
Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples
[embed]https://vimeocom/101619257[/embed] Maida performed Ancient Lands and Ancient Peoples in 1984 in Guangzhou, China (In Winds of Sand at the Hong Kong Academy on that tour) and then performed Ancient Lands - Ancient Peoples in Seoul, Korea In 1995 on another Asian ...
Stirrings (Sculpture)
[embed]https://vimeocom/93869877[/embed] 1994 - Stirrings was created, originally, as a multimedia solo for Korean modern dancer, Je Young Kim and performed in Washington, DC with the world premiere in Seoul, Korea at the 13th International Modern Dance Festival, May 2 to 5, ...