Category Archives: Stage Works
Early Works – 1964 to 1973
Early works -1966 to 1973 (1964 thru 1973) Dance works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company as a not-for-profit federally tax-exempt organization in 1974/6 Performers included mature dancers from the Washington, ...
Laser 1 (1971)
(1971) Laser I (Duet) Laser I (Duet) was the first laser collaboration of Maida Withers with Rockne Krebs Maida and Rockne were associates on the Board of Directors for Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC The original choreography, by Maida, ...
Rage
(2006) Rage Maida Withers performed a dramatic solo, "Rage," a female political statement that took place on the theatre stage, a political statement, an improvised performance for the New Arts Festival, Gloucester, MA Gloucester New Arts Festival, a free street and site ...
Pnumbral Raincoast
(February 27, 1974 and February 28, 1974) Program says Thursday/Friday but those dates are Wednesday and Thursday???? Washington Project for the Arts/1227 G Street NW/Washington, DC Program information provided by John Driscoll, 7/6/2025 (physical program, difficult to read so typed information below) Steve ...
Dance of the Auroras – Part III – Magnetic Storm Seen From Above
2000 St Petersburg, Russia (April 2000) Residency with Kannon Dance School and Company, St Petersburg, Russia • Maida Withers created Part III Magnetic Storm of Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky with Iwona Olszowska, dancer from Poland, and ...
Dune
1992 View DUNE In Winds of Sand: https://vimeocom/101621322 : (00:00:00 to 0:05:58) Also view DUNE in Earth Spirit Rising: https://vimeocom/9360613 9 (0:09:13 to 0:16:53) Dune or Moving Earth Dune is created and performed by Maida Withers that takes place with the full body mostly ...
Still Rush – NYC Dancers
[embed]http://vimeocom/91811679[/embed] (1992) Still Rush (https://vimeocom/91811679) An impassioned work based on Withers’ pioneer ancestor’s migration from Missouri, Illinois, other locations, to territory in the Mountain West - a valley that became Salt Lake Valley History of Still Rush: Maida was invited to create ...
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 diverse dances by dance artists, friends and former dancers with ...
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 ...
Take Off
1968 or 1971 (TBD) - Take Off; Airport Radio Tower Sound Score; Choreographed by Maida Withers for six DC women dancers (GW undergraduate dance students) Take Off is a metaphor for life based on the power of the airplane to encourage our ...
Take Off
(Date TBD - 1968 ?) Maida Withers created Take Off, a metaphor for life based on the power of the airplane to aspire to greater heights and new adventures, with GW BA and MA dancers for performance in Dorothy Betts ...
Offering
[embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (05:56) (2015) Solo from MindFluctuations, a work created and performed by Maida Withers, co-authored with virtual worlds created by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil Offering Choreography and performance by Maida Withers Costume by Maida Withers Music by John Driscoll and ...
Monster Man
[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (2015) December 4 to 7 Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work with choreography co-authored by Anthony Gongora, supported by Maida Withers, artistic director (MWDCCo - Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Performed as a ...
Thresholds Crossed Duet – Norilsk, RUSSIA
(2006) Russian arts producer, Luba Kusovnikova, invited Maida to present the duet from Thresholds Crossed, with Russian dancers Konstantin Grouss and Ananstasia Oleynik, in Norilsk, Russia for the Indigenous Conference: Integrity of Cultural Space – the Notion of “Border” in ...
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 with Sharron Rose Music: John Driscoll Dance Solo: Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose) Dancers/Vocals: GW ...
Psychedelic Dance
(1968-1969) Psychedelic Dance was created by Maida Withers with GW undergraduate dancers performing A new technique involved oil, cake coloring mixed in water, in a clear glass mixing bowl This projection technique was made possible with water, coloring, and oil ...
Essay I: Of the Mind-Essay II: Of the Heart
(1966) Two-part work: Essay I and Essay II, choreography by Maida Withers with select GW dancers, explores the balance and conflict between the impulses "of the mind" and the contrasting interests "of the heart" Essay reveals Withers interest in the ...
Caching Butterflies and Other Things that Move _Photos
Phase Tracing I was developed in 1979-80 with four MWDCCo dancers Brook Andrews created a phrase in Phase Tracing that became the "bedrock" material for Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move For Butterflies, dancers moving horizontally across and through ...
RAGE & ICE: Gloucester New Arts Festival
(2006) Gloucester New Arts Festival specialized in site-specific art and theater performances, was founded by Sarah Slifer, GW Dance Alumni, in Gloucester, MA - city on the sea outside of Boston Sarah performed in USA and internationally with MWDCCo Rage (2006) Maida ...
Laser Dance: Quest-Domain (no laser)
(April 28, 1985) Quest (Part I) and Domain (Part II) and Dialogue (Part III) National Dance Week, Dance Fest '85 Glen Echo Park, Washington, DC Preview of opening sections of upcoming Laser Dance, world premiere, at Lisner Auditorium, June 5 & 6, 1985, with ...
Malaise
(1969) Malaise A pervasive vulgarity by 2 men and 4 women - premiere (identify 2 female dancers from archives) Music: Dixon Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC Choreography by Maida Withers with excellent GW undergraduate dancers: Julia Hart, Jim Bunting, Jeanne Jones, Ulysses Dove, and two ...
Thresholds Crossed – Part I, TsEKh Residency
(2005) (get rid of underline) Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow, Russia - work in progress MWDCCo were guest artists-in-residence for three weeks in Moscow, Russia with the highly regarded TsEKh International Summer School (July 4-21,2005) In a national audition, four Russians ...
DIGG – a provocative excavation of the current political landscape
"Withers has created a work that spans the human experience of witnessing modern American politics: anxiety, fear, anger, nervous laughter and resilient hope" Cassie Patterson (2018) "Withers is a dance legend" Carmel Morgan (2018) https://vimeocom/390858979 (2018) February 10, 11 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance ...
No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica
[embed]http://vimeocom/226994154[/embed] (2017) No More Ping Pong Balls Performance Intervieux: Maida on Erica The life of Erica Rebollar, birthday girl and celebrant, exposed through an unclassified, no boundaries interview setup configured in a unexpected disorganization by dance artist friend and provocateur, Maida Withers Ping pong ...
ICEBERGS: Fault Line
Small Format Contemporary Dance Festival Curator: Ekaterina Zharinova Yekaterinburg History Museum Yekaterinburg, Russia (2016) ICEBERGS: Fault Line August 26, 2016 @ 7:00 pm Solo performance: Maida Withers Panel Discussion: August 28, 2016 at noon Maida Withers premieres ICEBERGS: Fault Line, a loosely structured solo based on MWDCCo site work, ...
IMPOSTERS
IMPOSTERS PROPOSED PROJECT TBD 2016 or 2017 Maida Withers / Dance Construction Company, USA, and Konstantin Grouss / Art-Residence, Russia, propose the creation of the performance project, Imposters, that explores the intimate boundary between our physical and digital identities, by bringing to life ...
Chain of Events – Kennedy Center
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, ...
FareWell: Comments by Composer Steve Hilmy
[embed]https://vimeocom/7346369[/embed] 2009 FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - a shortened version of the evenng-length work was performed by Maida Withers for Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporanea y ...
FareWell and Hell-O
Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, performance poet Maida Withers, choreographer/dancer (2008) FareWell and Hell-O Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City Library Theatre Stage, a riveting "wake up call!" Alex and Maida have a substantive history of working ...
Hekuras (Visual Installation)
2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian technology (computer) artist, created original virtual worlds that became projected environments/installations on stage for the dances - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil, 2002) and Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (GW, 2010) and ...
K.A.C. Int’l Exchange: Dance Concert Improvisation (50 anniversary Taejon. Korea)
[embed]https://vimeocom/102128125[/embed] 1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA, dancers improvised a public concert performance November 15, 1999, for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea Professional, classical, Korean musicians collaborated, ...
Spirit Figures
[embed]https://vimeocom/100934861[/embed] (1992) Spirit Figures, a dance that appeared in an evening concert titled Dance for the Earth Dances in the evening program were created in commemoration of and select dances performed in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil during the United Nation's ...
Messenger Eagle (See Dance for the Earth)
(1992 ) Messenger Eagle is primarily a male solo in Dance for the Earth, an evening of dances celebrating the Earth, that pays homage to the important American symbol, the eagle In America, and especially with Native Americans, and other ...
Still Rush – MWDCCo Dance for the Earth
https://vimeocom/100908352 Still Rush: Open 41:51 - 52:47 End 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 ...
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 poet, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel As in life we go through ...
Entourage
LISTED IN THE CHOREOGRAPHY BUT NO OTHER NOTES 1979 - Entourage - Music by Joe Clark Performance: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
Dance Works by International Women (Venezuela/DC)
[embed]https://vimeocom/101624575[/embed] October 31 to November 2, 1997 Tour / Residency: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela Sponsored by Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo Maida Withers Dance Construction Company toured to Venezuela to perform with Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo The Dance Construction Company invited Phffft ...
Dance Concert Celebrates MWDCCo Founding
1974 - Maida Withers Dance Concert (December 13, 1974) MWDCCo applied for federal 501-C-3 tax-exempt status as a non-profit cultural organization in Washington, DC in 1974 501-C3 status was acknowleged for Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Washington, DC, 1976 Dance Concert by ...
Early works -1966 to 1973
1964 thru 1973 - Works were created by Maida Withers in Washington, DC prior to establishing Maida Withers Dance Construction Company Performers included dancers from the community and MA and BA dance alumni or students at George Washington University Regrettably, ...
Whose Shoes Are These Anyway
1982 - Solo performance by Maida Withers (8 minutes) based on dancer as athlete This performance provided the basis of original materials on Olympian female athletes that was later developed for a group of dancers in the work titled, Turf ...
Dances on Men and Women (Repertory)
(1984) - Retrospective - selection of short duets and quartets created by Maida Withers for the Dance Construction Company, 1974-1984, overtones of feminist notions about WOMAN and MEN Presented by the Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum Program in file Excerpts from dances included: Yesterday's ...
Path
[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] (1989) - Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company were selected for a two-week creative residency, May 9 to 21,1989, at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international center for art and ideas Other artist ...
Spirit Path / Migration
Question regarding the location of this performance: Dance Place or Marvin Center Theatre???? Check program in archives [embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] View Spirit Path/Migration also on Earth Spirit Rising as a QUARTET: https://vimeocom/93606130 ( 0:32:50 to 0:48:50) 1990 - Spirit Path / Migration is a duet conceived ...
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 ...
3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)
[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002/2003 - Maida Withers collaborates with Dan Sternklar, 3D filmmaker and inventor, to create 3D Dance / Future View, a 3D film of an improvised site performance that resulting in the film short (4:04 time) Dan Sternklar, 3D camera specialist ...
Sphota Probe with Alex Caldiero
(2003) Alex Caldiero performance poet, scholar, author (Salt Lake City, Utah) performs live his poem, Sphota Probe, with dancers Maida Withers and Katia Chupashko Katia performs Thresholds Crossed SOLO (Katia Chupashko) created by Maida Withers using a vertical standing ...
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 and ...
Dance for the Earth
[embed]https://vimeocom/100908352[/embed] (1992) Dance for the Earth, an evening-length program, a collection of "earth consciousness dances" premiered at Thomas Jefferson Community Theater in Arlington, Virginia, February 7 & 8, 1992 Three dances from Dance for the Earth were performed by MWDCCo and Brazilian dancers ...
Thresholds Crossed – Solo and Duet
Thresholds Crossed: Solo (2003) or Duet (2003) are NOT related specifically in concept or content to Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance - American & Russian dancers, 2006) Both dances are concerned with "thresholds that are crossed" but not the same reference/topic Note: ...
Scat
(1986) December 4 - Scat a dance that was part of the evening-length project/dance of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company titled: Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex Scat is a loose-limbed spoof reminiscent of Be-Bop that was danced to music ...
Still Rush – NYC Dancers Rehearsal
[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] (1990 or 91 December?) Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY Dancers for Still Rush were auditioned and selected by Maida Withers with Mino Nicholas Dance Company in New York City, for a work ...
Prologue – Cowboys & Indians Play by Maida Withers
[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] (1992) February 7 & 8 - Prologue: Cowboys and Indians, a delightful solo performance of dance and spoken text written by Maida Withers - her view of the west as a cowgirl and as the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
https://vimeocom/90693028 Rehearsal Marvin Center Theatre for performance at Warner Theatre May 9, 1980 [embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Rehearsal - Building K Studio Theatre for performance in 4/27/1979; https://vimeocom/90679290/ (1979)Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move Don Zuckerman Photos for Catching Butterflies by Dennis DeLoria, Washington, DC "Fast paced dance of a ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe – Visual Installation
2003 - Video history, selection of segments of choreography by Maida Withers that were projected on stage as a visual installation during the live performance of Maida on Maida in the Universe In essence Maida compares her creative process with ...
Collision Course a.k.a. Episodes 1-2-3 (Artisphere)
(2011) October 21 Three sections from Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) performed October 21, 2011 at Artisphere, a large museum and performance center in Arlington, Virginia The Dome Theatre features a full size ...
Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
http://maidadancecom/works/woman-see-maida-withers-weta-pbs-interview/ 1981 - an interview with Maida in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers Dancers participated live at PBS This work followed five years ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses-2013
2013) November 14, 15, 16 An eighteen-minute segment of Yesterday's Garlands and Yesterday's Kisses reconstructed on George Washington University dancers and performed on DanceWorks November 14, 15, 16, 2013 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Originally choreographed by Maida Withers ...
InVoluntary Encounters
(2012) May 5 Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and guest artist choreographers and dancers from NYC, Boston and Japan create an interactive event of dance, live video feed, film, and electronic music that features improvisations by choreographers who perform and ...
Obsession – Suite Elvis Solo by Maida Withers
https://vimeocom/90645088 Excerpt from evening-length video - performance when Maida Withers did the Elvis Presley solo!(1986) December 4, 5, 6 - Solo by Maida Withers was featured, in Obsession - America's Obsession With Sex, as the dancer performing the"Elvis" figure at the ...
Time Dance (1984)
https://vimeocom/106383942 https://vimeocom/92363361 (1984) June 14 Restaging choreography of 1976 version of Time Dance for performance in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre The square was adapted to a very large diamond rather than the original square space at Mt Vernon Hand Chapeland many other ...
Dance of the Auroras – Virtual Virgins, Le Sol, Shaman
https://vimeocom/88947601 2000 - (October 1 pr Sept 5??) Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was honored to be invited to perform as part of the Dance Place 20/20 Visions Anniversary Concert celebrating 20 years of sponsoring and presenting dance In the year ...
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 ...
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 ...
Crossing the Edge
[embed]https://vimeocom/91535011[/embed] 1988 - A physically aggressive duet danced to a saxophone score The dancers establish a rapport on the ledge between Earth and Sky - dancers John Lancaster and Leah Kline Tabassi (find where this is performed - what other dances) Information ...
Spirit Path / Migration / Remains
[embed]https://vimeocom/101653079[/embed] Note: Place and Cast for these works need to be resolved: Wrong: 1990, not 1991 Video is for Spirit Path/ Migration or just Earth Spirit Rising Concert? 1990 at Dance Place: Spirit Path/Migration The following might be a 1990 work not 1991: Spirit Path / ...
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 ...
For Verabel
1977 - "For Verable, a female duet created in recognition of the separation and eventual divorce of two of my (Maida's) dearest Mormon friends, Verabel Call Cluff and Tony Cluff, parents of children, good friends of my children" The duet ...
Orff Suite
1977 - Dances created by Maida Withers for the Dance Construction Company with live accompaniment by The Hartwick Orff Ensemble for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, DC on Thursday, November 10, 1977 The video ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance I
1977 - Give the Dancers Castenets: The first evening-length collaboration of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company with performance poet, Chasen Gaver, Dance Project, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC with Sculptor, Edward LeBoe; Architect, Terry Rosenheck Chasen Gaver wrote new poems and selected ...
Evening of Poetry and Dance II
1978 - Baby It's About Time! an absurd and outrageous social commentary event performed by dancers with Washington, DC's most controversial performance poet, Chasen Gaver Chasen Gaver performed his poems sometimes using small hand-held instruments Performing in cabaret style, he ...
Sky Cloud
Stacy Palatt, David Bentley, Dana Tai Soon Burgess (1992) Sky Cloud - created by Maida Withers, a collaboration with Hilda Thorpe, paper maker, sculptor, recognized Washington, DC female color-school artist from the 1950s Thorpe created an incredible large fabric installation (white ...
Phase Tracing II and The Wall
(1979 and 1980) Phase Tracing continued with two additional projects: Phase Tracing II and The Wall Conflicting information on dates Regrets: Insufficient information for accurate posting at this time Phase Tracing II February 29, March 1, and March 2, 1980 and or April ...
Turf
1983 - Turf An Evening length feminist performance on women Olympians created in honor of the 1984 Olympics to be held in LA, California Olympic Films from the German Olympics (1936) and the Olympics in Japan (1962) and the 1976 ...
Laser Dance – Suites of Light, Public Presentation
(1985) Laser Dance "Suites of Light" [embed]https://vimeocom/102179302[/embed] Laser Dance "Suites of Light," Public Presentation: Maida Withers, Rockne Krebs, Bob Boilen, and dancers engaged in a public presentation, on stage at Lisner Auditorium, discussing the creation process of the multidisciplinary Laser Dance project The ...
Ledge
[embed]https://vimeocom/100503881[/embed] Video produced by Linda Lewett at Fairfax TV (FCAC) A mythical journey performed by Maida Withers and John Lancaster to an original new music score by composer Michael Willis in a sparse stage set of hanging ropes This is a full ...
In Earth’s Belly Deep – an emergence myth
"In Earth's Belly Deep" - Aerial Dance, Emergency Myth, 1990 Mark Thompson, Cecily Carsky-Miller & John Lancaster 1990 - "It is my desire to bring to life, through dance, music, and visual imagery, the extraordinary physical and spiritual powers experienced when visiting ...
Rolling Thunder – “Transformation”
[embed]https://vimeocom/101003244[/embed] Rolling Thunder - Transformation USA: https://vimeocom/101003244 (14:18 minutes) Rolling Thunder - Transformation Brazil: https://vimeocom/10232271 (7:35 minutes) (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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laser Dance – Quest / Domain / Departure (tour)
[embed]https://vimeocom/92363777[/embed] (May 15, 16, 17, 1986 - Tour in Virginia, 1986) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC Virginia sponsored tour Quest / Domain /Departure - sections of choreography by Maida Withers created for Laser Dance, Lisner Auditorium, June, 1985, were performed in Washington, DC ...
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 ...
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 Dancer: Maida Withers Music: Alex Caldiero (drum and vocal) Film: Verabel Call Cluff An ...
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, ...
Surveillance
2001 and 2002 - Dance was an early commentary on surveillance technques coming into lives of everyday people Women's trio with projected real-time interactive images originating from the wireless video camera worn on the chest of dancer, Kerry Joyce First performed ...
Shocked and Odd (DC)
2004 - Shocked and Odd - Live Art was an idea encouraging extreme movement and character concepts for improvisation that took place in DC with several of the worlds best improvising dancers Withers states, "Without a question, performing with ...
TILT by mostly men..a spirited contest
2005 Performance at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage related to the 11th DC International Improvisation Plus+ Festival The theme of the improvisation was "to tilt" the body Most of the people in the performance were men Who can tilt the ...
FareWell – Rising Tide
[embed]https://vimeocom/6834436[/embed] 2009 - a dance work that is part of the FareWell project, a series of several dances, examines the rising of our oceans and the pollution of the seas and waterways with plastic water bottles and other debris and chemicals ...
FareWell: Parched Earth – Remembrances from Tomorrow (Kenya, Africa)
2008 - A dance project that took place in Nairobi, Kenya at the GoDown Center for the Arts The dance work, Parched Earth, was created in collaboration with nine Kenyan dancers (six men and three women) during a three-week residency ...
FareWell: Tipping Point (Jadee Mitchell)
[embed]https://vimeocom/6815207[/embed] 2008 - Multimedia solo originally created by Maida Withers, choreographer for Jadee Mitchell, GW dancer Tipping Point refers to the crisis of global warming demonstrated most vividly in the Arctic and Antarctica, continents of ice on our planet that are ...
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 ...
Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky, DC
[embed]https://vimeocom/102399026[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/102248165[/embed] 2001 A Four Part performance: I: "The Sun/Virtual Sun" II: "Solar Wind Towards Magnetosphere" III: "Magnetic Storm Seen from Above" IV: "View from the Earth" "A poetic journey through space using real-time interaction with cyber worlds and movies and images of the sun and the ...
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] Trailer: MindFluctuations (6:29) Click to view Full-length Performance (1:22:33) Below: Select 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 ...
Naked Truth
[embed]https://vimeocom/16730232[/embed] 2010 - Naked Truth, an exquisite, meticulously designed trio choreographed by Maida Withers with dancers Anthony Gongora, Tzveta Kassaabova, and Giselle Ruzany - three seasoned and deeply dedicated international dance artists Original music is composed and performed live by Steve ...
Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil)
[embed]https://vimeocom/77462030[/embed] (2002) Hekuras: Spirits of the Rainforest, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Anhembi Morumbi University) (Original title: A River Runs Deep, São Paulo, Brazil) Project conceived by Maida Withers, USA, and Tania Fraga, Brazil Maida's motivation came from MWDCCo involvement in Brazil for the United ...
Investigation of Late
2002 - Maida created and performed a duet with Lotta Lundgren, dancer from Sweden, for the concert Five Views - 5 Companies that was produced in the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, May 3 and 4, 2002 in Washington, DC Investigation of Late ...
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 BrazilMaida Withers and Sarah Slifer NeverthelessTenderness was performed at the Aula Magna Theatre, Universidad Central ...
Families Are Forever Part III: Veiled Threat
[embed]http://vimeocom/43991482[/embed] [embed]https://vimeocom/35583218[/embed] 2012 - Veiled Threat is the name given to Part III of Families are Forever Veiled threat reveals the delicacy of the relationships in families The familiarity of family members gives the members power based on the intimate knowledge they ...
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 ...
Hekuras – Spirits of the Rainforest (USA)
[caption id="attachment_4670" align="alignnone" width="4600"] 2010 - Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest was first created in São Paulo, Brazil (2002) with Brazilian dancers during a three-week residency The version presented in Washington, DC maintained some of the thematic movement materials, ...
Families are Forever
1981 - Families Are Forever is a four-part multimedia narrative presented at the Renwick Gallery of Art, Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution during the Memorial Day weekend May 28 and 29, 1981 or ?3 as a tribute to families ...
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz
[embed]https://vimeocom/7983497[/embed] Above: UtahSpirit PlaceSpirit PlanetTukuhnikivatz, performance at Lincoln Center, GREAT DANCE IN THE BANDSHELL, shot by Adam Peiperl in the audience with restriction that he could not stand continuously by the camera due to blocking - 2500 patrons who attended the ...
Time Dance (1976)
1976 - Quartet based on structure of pulse and accumulation The dance begins with finger snapping the pulse and dancers continue the finger snapping off and on during the first 10 minutes The pulse appeared in the movement or as ...
State of the Art
1986 - State of the Art examines the conflict of art and the artist in American society The rapid development of arts management looms as a potential to independence and innovation by the artist Press Release: State of the Art is ...
Put on the Music…Let’s Dance (1977)
[embed]https://vimeocom/105665739[/embed] View rehearsal, 1977: https://vimeocom/90683470 1977 - Forty-five minute show piece, a performance based on film dance of 1930s and 1940s An actress reminisces over memorabilia about her life as a stage dancer/actress of the 1940's There are short segments of entertainment ...
Phase Tracing
(1978) - Phase Tracing, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist In the performance, dancer's movements make inaudible sound audible with movements of the body or movement of silver strips of polyethylene/mylar strips hung from ceiling ...
Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex
[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] Performance in 2 parts: Part I: Elvis Presley / religion impact - Gender transformation; Part II - AIDS (See ORBIT film: https://vimeocom/7691282) 1987 - This evening-length performance is a commentary on the sexual revolution starting with Elvis Presley "Made in the USA" ...
Laser Dance: World Premiere, FCAC-TV
(1985) June 6 and 7 LISNER Auditorium / Washington, DC Evening-length space odyssey: Quest Domain Rites Dialogue Departure [embed]https://vimeocom/7714416[/embed] Laser Dance (above) - shot on 16 mm film due to the low level light on stage required for laser beams Maida Withers ...
FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise
2008 - FareWell to the End of the World As We Know It or Dancing Your Way to Paradise "FareWell is a modern Greek-style tragedy, delivered by a warrior goddess" Ballet-Dance Magazine, Carmel Morgan [embed]https://vimeocom/6643827[/embed] Dance Place Performance: http://vimeocom/17018474 Trailer: https://vimeocom/15561322 TOURS: 2008-2012 World Premiere: Zagrebi Festival! Zagreb, ...
Woman See
[embed]https://vimeocom/101667371[/embed] Woman See - Premiere Performance [embed]https://vimeocom/88378613[/embed] Woman See - Duet Part I Commencement (rehearsal; 04:36) [embed]https://vimeocom/75605276[/embed] Interview: Woman See, PBS, WETA TV, DC (See separate page on maidadancecom) WOMAN SEE - 1980 and 1981 A politically charged feminist performance in eight distinct parts with live music, ...
Stall. (Stage Performance)
[embed]https://vimeocom/64802075[/embed] 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 Company Charmed ...
Maida on Maida in the Universe
(2003) February 14, 15 One-woman show created and performed by Maida Withers in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC For this work, Withers life and artistic work parallel current scientific ideas and theories of the origin and fate/demise of the ...
Thresholds Crossed (Stage Performance)
2006 - Part I, II, III, IV: A fusion of East and West that explores the events, ideology and humanistic issues that link the US with the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia over four decades of time Colored by ...
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 ...
Yesterday’s Garlands and Yesterday’s Kisses
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC [embed]https://vimeocom/73810026?turnstile=0zpz9a2jXNn299ShkYpeKgKxopwLkrDEMfy0N_-nUWou-ukgLATliY8WHCEjDlii9jii940e3hoq0OpdHM0zY_1p-5-eJZJXGbmsKny17FLD6CybKnEuzMitoasthirRQ43iEK_WPodvYhdsRreQNNa3EPyZzpRelpb64ln_fOi_5RqQQk7t9J3r8s0Pf9qBd8kBIJr-8-hi6S7BikyNouoSEZR7le_25oJbeJlVAVTNtp-8Y_YFfpl_2wimzHuO43Ymu-YK7kddTxQPAAMMkJtw0VEkFKNwacORTc_GFNr5f4P-SsBlCnnbM4GvqswN7fnStW3Sw7hyxzihdVhWXKihptUUJJJ_sR2y0FGi4lUqApIu4Cufx7YVRx6HNI64ha5XIRiyKgDObXe2w4Bb3Ecy_6v9bMCaCuq7OjTB9g7XDAho13g0CmzlQcV_TVJI7Fu8ixmdYvZ0XcegVQu2xoZJr4gEOQfgF5eq8aX5vIzS10An3hnmjBcAGPhXGufONn0XfTDmoXYADLG2zSHKUyNJLGhWCNbUN5iQ-YTXWX2D34E0wm-BzbhNYPLEPKbWowss_3CzIOIfHU0Q6vocf6iTAJp3MqOKxcX2aCREg-flXaRwBJYm3ucW7j_WPE_OWF9rY9y6sABYUIEoQ9__7mCsWwiYd34QaOw7mSrWVnqJ0TXO46mv-fZsaUICFOTZAcg60s8T47h4TOeyxskkgRUVec6SakF8jxLSba-eGxhAlDAkMcNIT7ieaMx2C2mLosAwdzem0ugSmVAcspwv9qWLRcSselSzMxmZQIkI9a0Npw26ZC-e5jimY-qQE-H9lanC53QG39b0OQRMVtLHcKiyq9qWvR_lVhejlbwvkt20czgjQIe9knpAQ4s0j0TY4Qa85b9cfc689ab3bb4cfefff5d7c1cfaf79df9eb0f8bdc6abaf4183da59c17133[/embed] (Costumes in this video are simple leotards I believe that was the original costume, but the film says 1975must have been when the video was produced/posted???) 1974 Original Version: Evening length performance – nostalgia coupled with absurdity ...