Category Archives: Site Work
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Utah Project
[embed]https://vimeocom/31371574[/embed] Maida Withers @ Bears Ears Bruce Hucko, Photograph “In 1988, I returned to the land of my birth in Utah with a group of artists for a five-week experiment of living and dancing on selected land ...
Wet and Wonderful in Washington DC (National Plaza)
1983 -Wet and Wonderful in Washington, DC (Western Plaza) - a dance, music, and water sculpture event conceived by Maida Withers constructed in collaboration with John Bailey, Rogelio Maxwell, MWDCCo and the dancers, and Susan Jamieson This site event was an ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] Audio sample: https://wwwdropboxcom/s/t3sv1een2crmtfr/Stall%20excerpt%209minwav?dl=0 1981 - Stall an evening length collaborative performance of dance, sound sculpture, and music choreographed by Maida Withers, a rotating loudspeaker installation by John Driscoll, composer/sculptor, Phil Edelstein, rotating loudspeaker animation, with dancers from Maida Withers Dance Construction ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
White Mansions – Holy Rood Cemetery
1975 - The first performance took place at the newly renovated Washington Project for the Arts space on 1227 G Street NW, Washington, DC 1975 In cleaning out the pigeon dung in the 3rd floor space we discovered a long piece of ...
Pnumberal Raincoast and other performances
Washington Project for the Arts, Thursday, Feb 27, 1975 and Friday Feb 28, 1975 at 1227 G Street NW (Year in question) Program: Listening Out Loud John Driscoll (Steve Bloom, Joh Driscoll, Phil Edelstein) Wild Song - Julie Schwartz (Thursday only) NOMESPUS (Friday, only) ...
Dance/Sound Events (Tin Tabernacle Series)
1973 - 1974 Maida Withers Dance Construction Company presented five evenings of Dance/Sound events, the Tin Tabernacle Series, with sculptor/musician, John Driscoll, in a dome-shaped space, Tin Tabernacle (a large gymnasium with a curved roof of tin somewhat in the ...
Last Lecture Series
1973 - The Last Lecture Series is a national program, an invitational opportunity to give a lecture on a subject of importance or interest Maida chose to dance and talk about dancing and about things in life that an artist ...
Dance Improvisation Performances
1972 - Starting in 1972, every six to 10 weeks, Maida Withers, Brook Andrews, John Bailey, and GW MA graduate students created dance and movement improvisation events in GW's Building K gymnasium and Building J dance studio spaces and in ...