Category Archives: Work
Fascination – Improvisation in Concert
[embed]https://vimeocom/99629619[/embed] 1994 -Jey Young Kim and Maida Withers improvise in concert in Washington, DC to a poem Fascination, by Young Tai Kim, Korea, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel As in life we go through a ...
Damned River
1993 - "Wind is power, the grass, people When winds blow the grass bends" Damned River is dedicated to Mariko, dance colleague in Kyoto, Japan A multimedia stage work for fourteen dancers that explores the dynamics of fascism in its subtle ...
Earth Dancer, UN Earth Summit, Interview, GW Magazine
Interview - Earth Dancer - GW Magazine, page 22, Summer 1993 "This interview is dedicated to all those with whom my life has intersected" Maida Withers Maida Withers is interviewed on her views of dance, dancing, making dances, collaborating, experimenting, having ...
In Winds of Sand
[embed]https://vimeocom/101630192[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/7692794[/embed] 1993 - "The act of beingcreating for the Earth" Evening-length epoch performance and installation created and danced by Maida Withers The installation features visuals by Verabel Call Cluff, SandS CycleS SandS CycleS - an art film of Withers improvising at Coral ...
Re- Voltaire – The AX (Mary Christmas)
1992 - Maida Withers performs at Cabaret Re-Voltaire at The Washington Project for the Art's "The Ax was done when I was deeply involved in the environmental/ecology issues The plastic suit represents the risk put on our survival as we ...
Stone Garden UN Earth Summit
June 5, 1992 - Evening-length site work created by Maida Withers in collaboration with dancers (Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Stacy Palatt, Janine Ploetz, USA, and Celia Portilho, Brazil) musicians (Digerdoo by Craig Gibson and Harold Gent), rock carving sculptor (Ken ...
Rolling Thunder – Transformation, DC
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] 1992 - "Rolling Thunder intricately weaves rich and layered movement materials in a ritualistic contemporary dance narrative, a new world myth The gift, the knowledge of the earth, is brought forth Those who hear the message change - transforming themselves ...
Dance for the Earth
1992 - Title given to the evening-length performance that included the following six dances related to Maida's Earth consciousness projects: Sky Cloud (1992), Prologue - Cowboys and Indian Play (1991), Messenger Eagle (1992), Still Rush (1991), Rolling Thunder "Transformation" (1992) Dance for the Earth was presented ...
Sky Cloud
1992 - Dance work created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female artist from the 1950s Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white gauze with hand-made paper painted on by Hilda ...
Still Rush – MWDCCo
1992 - Still Rush was performed in Washington, DC by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as part of Rolling Thunder in the Dance for the Earth concert Still Rush was first titled, Passage, but was changed for performance The concept is ...
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
1992 - In America, Native America, and many other cultures, the Eagle is admired and held in great reverence When working on the red earth sites in the Southwestern United States it is always a glorious moment when the Eagle ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] 1992 - Spirit Figures is part of Dance for the Earth created in commemoration and for the United Nation's Earth Summer (Eco '92) in Brazil Spirit figures wer created from discarded items (trash, like plastic) that create horrific destruction to ...
SandS CycleS
https://vimeocom/463079035 1991 - Dance and environment film shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah and edited following the Hero's Journey described by Joseph Campbell, psychologist, researcher, and scholar [gallery size="medium" ids="6046,6055,6057,6047,6050,6054,6048,6045,6059,6056,6049,6060"] "SandS CycleS is a poetic dance and ...
Issues of Gender – Exhibiton / Performance
1991 - Provocative exhibition stimulates provocative dance response throughout the Arlington Art Center by Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company In 1991 there was a growing awareness and sensitivity to issues about gender Maida Withers was commissioned to create ...
Spirit Path / Migration / Remains
[embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] Must revisit hard copy in archives to ascertain any video, etc Does the concert at Dance Place include: Spirit Path / Migration / Remains, Crossing the Edge with John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi, and Still Rush with the NYC cast ...