Category Archives: Stage Works

Dance of the Auroras – Part III Magnet Storm Seen From Above

Film/Video excerpts of MWDCCO for ITVS (2001 to 2012):   submitted for consideration for a documentary film)  ITVS  (Independent Television Service)  is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS  The ...

Performatica: Tres-Dias-en-Cholula

Performatica 2009:  3rd Foro Internacional De Danza Contemporanea Artes de Nivunuebti founded in 2006 by Ray Schwartz and Myra Morales at the Universidad de las Americas UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico residency program [embed]https://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=pvGRXN-N8Ec[/embed] MWDCCo 2009 participation in Performatica 2009: Maida Withers created a site ...

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 ...

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

(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

MindFluctuation: Offering [embed]https://vimeocom/192285756[/embed] Offering (solo) from MindFluctuations,  created and performed by Maida Withers; Virtual World by Tania Fraga, 3D Computer Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil  See MindFluctations (2015),an evening-length performance, for complete information Maida Withers, solo performance, danced wearing the helmet to influence the ...

Monster Man (See MindFluctuations)

[embed]https://vimeocom/128670434[/embed] Monster Man (7:29) (See - excerpt from MindFluctuations, 2015) Excerpt of dance from MindFluctuations, evening-length work co-authored by Maida Withers, choreographer and artistic director (Washington, DC), and Tania Fraga, 3D computer artist (Sao Paulo, Brazil) MindFluctuations: Monster Man Choreography and performance by Anthony ...

Thresholds Crossed – Norilsk Performance

(2006)  Luba Kusovnikova, producer and intellect, in Russia invited Maida Withers to attend an indigenous peoples conference in Norilsk, Russia and present a section of Thresholds Crossed as part of the conference Title of conference:  Integrity of Cultural Space – the ...

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 w Sharron Rose Music:  John Driscoll Dance Solo:  Sharron Beckenheimer (Rose)      Dancers/Vocals:  GW ...

Psychedelic Dance

1968-69 - Psychedelic Dance  created by Maida Withers with GW Dancers  Oil was mixed in water and videotaped and projected on dancers in white attire  This dance was invited to be on Channel 4, NBC-TV  However when we arrived at the ...

Essays Part I: Of the Mind; Part II: Of the Heart

1966 - Choreography with GW dancers explores the balance and conflict between the impulses of the mind and that of the heart  Obviously that was of concern to the artist in the emerging Post-Modern expressive conversation Of the Heart Of the Mind Of ...

Phase Tracing Movements – Title???

The movements from Phase Tracing developed with four dancers  These moves became Catching Butterflies and Other things that Move  Need to do more research in the ARCHIVES  This is a holding station for these photos Don, Maida, Diane

Gloucester New Arts Festival

Gloucester New Arts Festival (2005-2009) that specialized in site-specific art and theatre performances founded by Sarah Slifer, GW Dance Alumni, in Gloucester, MA - city on the sea outside of Boston  Maida performed a solo, "Rage" in the theatre; and perform ...

Laser Dance _ Plastic Suits / NO Laser

Excerpts of Laser Dance were performed without the laser light installation  Original Laser Dancers wore clear plastic suits for the performance at Glen Echo in the ballroom as part of a concert of dances by varied groups      

Malaise

1969 – Malaise A pervasive vulgarity; 2 men 4 women; Premiere – Music: Dixon; Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC   Brilliant undergraduate GW dancers including  Julia Hart, Jim Bunting, Jeanne Jones (See http://maidadancecom/works/early-works-by-maida-withers-1966-to-1971/) Standing figure: Ulysses Dove (became Cunningham and Ailey dancer)  ...

Thresholds Crossed_TsEKh Residence, Part I

Thresholds Crossed - Part I, Moscow - work in progress (2005) TsEKh International Summer School Residency to create and present Part I with 5 Russian and 6 American dancers, Moscow, Russia (July 4-24, 2005)  Elena Tupsevya was instrumental in our holding ...

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 [embed]https://vimeocom/258150770[/embed] 2018 DIGG - a fiercely intimate multimedia performance experience created and ...

No More Ping Pong Balls – Intervieux: Maida on Erica

[embed]http://vimeocom/226994154[/embed] 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  Please throw your ...

ICEBERGS: Fault Line

Small Format Contemporary Dance Festival Yekaterinburg History Museum Yekaterinburg, Russia ICEBERGS: Fault Line August 26, 2016 @ 7:00 pm Panel Discussion: August 28, 2016 at noon Maida Withers premieres ICEBERGS: Fault Line a solo based on MWDCCo site work, GLACIAL DRIFT Music:  electronic Composer / Musician ...

IMPOSTERS

   IMPOSTERS PROPOSED PROJECT   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 digital people, dance ...

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 and Hell-O

Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero Maida Withers 2008 Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero and Maida Withers performed together at the Utah Arts Festival   Alex performed live on the stage with Maida on the  Salt Lake City Library  Theatre Stage  spontaneously reciting and creating text and projecting ...

Hekuras (Visual Installation)

2002 - Tania Fraga, Brazilian Computer artist, created original virtual art 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) The virtual ...

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 improvised in a concert performance November 15, 1999,  for the KAC International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea  Classical Korean musicians played for the ...

Shocked and Odd – Live Art (Russia)

2005 - Shocked and Odd - Live  Art was an idea encouraging extreme movement and character concepts for improvisation that took place in Russia with an American living in Amsterdam, two Americans living in the USA, and one dancer from ...

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 were created from discarded items (trash, like plastic) that create horrific destruction to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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)

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 ...

Maida Withers Dance Concert Celebrates Founding of MWDCCo

1974 - Maida Withers Dance Concert  MWDCCo applied for federal 501-C-3 tax-exempt status as a non-profit cultural organization in 1974  501-C3 Status was achieved in 1976 Dance Concert by Maida Withers included four dances and several dancers who became co-founding members ...

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, presented by the Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum - overtones of feminist notions about WOMAN  Program in file Excerpts from dances ...

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 ...

Path

[embed]https://vimeocom/106386860[/embed] 1989 - The Company was selected for a two-week residency, May 9 to 21,1989, at the prestigious Yellow Springs Institute located outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - an international center for art and ideas  The Institute supported the Company with living quarters, ...

Sands Cycles

Question regarding the location of this performance: Dance Place, 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 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 ...

3D Dance / Future View (Film 4:04)

[embed]https://vimeocom/93154449[/embed] 2002 - 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 Maida Withers using a vertical standing casket ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thresholds Crossed – Solo and Duet

(2003)  SOLO: Katia Chupashko, dancer for the first work created by Maida Withers based on the ideas that were evolving for the eventual evening-length performance Thresholds Crossed (2006)  Katia emerged from a red standing casket into a diagonal light  Each time ...

Scat

1986 - Scat is an excerpt of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company work, Obsession - America's Obsession with Sex  Scat is a loose-limbed spoof reminiscent of Be-Bop Scat was performed as a trio with Melody Joy Ruffin, Taffy Schaeffer-Merkert and Annetta ...

Still Rush (Original Cast – NYC, NY)

[embed]https://vimeocom/91848739[/embed] Video above is a rehearsal of the NYC cast shot in NYC, NY View performances of Still Rush by MWDCCo:  https://vimeocom/100908352 and https://vimeocom/101001560 Premiere performance was January 12 and 13, 1991 at Dance Place, Washington, DC, as part of an evening titled ...

Prologue – Cowboys and Indians Play by Maida Withers

[embed]http://vimeocom/100928731[/embed] 1992 - Short solo dance and written text spoken by Maida Withers - a view of the west as a cowgirl and the great granddaughter of pioneering settlers in Utah  Presents that wit that underlies many of Withers' works - ...

Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move

[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] Videos - Phase Tracing, Phase Tracing I, Phase Tracing II movement phrase materials related to creation of the complex choreography in Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move References: https://maidadancecom/works/phase-tracing-movements-title/ https://vimeocom/90693028 https://vimeocom/90679290/ Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move: 1979 - "Fast paced dance of ...

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…2-3episode-1-2-3/ (Artisphere)

2011 - Three sections of Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk  (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) were performed at Artisphere, a museum and performance center in Arlington, Virginia, October 21, 2011 The Dome Theatre features a full size film ...

Woman See, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV

1981 - an interview in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making of Woman See - a feminist multimedia work in eight parts created by Maida Withers This work followed five years involvement by Maida and other Mormon women ...

InVoluntary Encounters

2012 - 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 a ...

Obsession – Suite Elvis Solo by Maida Withers

1986 - Solo by Maida Withers was featured, in Obsession - America's Obsession With Sex, as the dancer performing the"Elvis" figure at the Publick Playhouse, Prince George's Playhouse in Prince George's County, Maryland, December 4, 5, 6, 1986  In all ...

Time Dance (1984)

1984 - 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 HandChapleand many other changes occurred  ...

Dance of the Auroras – Virtual Virgins, Le Sol, Shaman

2000 - 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 2000, Dance of the Auroras ...

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] 1991 - 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 at Dance Place January 12 and 13, 1991 Crossing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - 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 ...

Phase Tracing II and The Wall

Conflicting information on dates of Phase Tracing II and THE WALL Phase Tracing II February 29, March 1, and March 2, 1980  and or April 27, 1979 1979 - Phase Tracing II Performance developing the movements discovered in Phase Tracing I - dancers interrupting ...

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 [embed]https://vimeocom/102179302[/embed] Laser Dance "Suites of Light"  - Artists' public presentation of the creation of a multidisciplinary performance project The artists, with an audience of 300 people, explored how the multiple art forms (laser light beams, dance, and synvlavier ...

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, USA:  https://vimeocom/101003244  (14:18 minutes) Rolling Thunder, 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 the earth, is brought ...

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 / Dialogue (leotards)

[embed]https://vimeocom/92363777[/embed] 1985 - Quest / Domain:  sections of choreography by Maida Withers created for Laser Dance  The choreography remains relatively the same but does not take place in a laser environment  Dancers perform the intricate and spatial movements without hesitation without ...

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 ...

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] 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 ...

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)

2002 - Original title:  A River Runs Deep; São Paulo, Brazil) Multidimensional dance, computer art, new music based on the mythology and power of the Amazon Rainforest - Spirits of the Rainforest Created in São Paulo, Brazil during a three-week residency ...

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 ...

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 I

1978 - Phase Trasing I, an evening-length work, a collaboration with Ron Kuivila, experimental sound artist Performance where dancers create audio with movements of the body causing/dropping the projected ultra sound an octave into a level of audibility Movement makes ...

Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex

[embed]http://vimeocom/8054192[/embed] Performance in 2 parts:  Part I:  Elvis Pressley / 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 (Stage Performance Excerpts / Fairfax Cable, FCAC-TV)

1985 - Four-part evening-length space odyssey (Part I: Departure; Part II: Quest; Part III, Domain; Part IV, Rites/Skylight/and Departure) of choreography that takes place inside a large-scale installation of argon laser beams created by Rockne Krebs and Synclavier II music ...

FareWell: To The End of the World as We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise

2008 - "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, Croatia  (US Embassy) (2011) USA Premiere:  Fringe Festival, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC (2008) Local Performance: Dance Place, Washington, ...

Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Installation FILM)

2012 - The video is compiled from projected images, a visual installation created for and projected during the evening-length multimedia performance, Collision Course - aka Pillow Talk, choreographed by Maida Withers in collaboration with the Dance Construction Company (Nate Bond, ...

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 - One-woman show created and performed by Maida Withers, february 14/15, 2003 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...