Category Archives: Museums/Galleries
Black on Black / Slam and Wham
2004 - Collaboration of Maida Withers and Wendell Cooper, NYC, with American Composers Forum musicians in a performance at Flashpoint, downtown Washington, DC exhibition and performance space Our goal was to create an improvised dance where the stage was treated ...
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 ...
Hilda Thorpe Tribute – Artists’ Studio Performance
December 4, 1999 - Birthday tribute to Hilda Thorpe at her Artists' Studio in downtown Alexandria, Virginia Maida collaborated with Thorpe, a brilliant American painter and sculptor - part of the illustrious Washington Color School - on several projects engaging the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mr. and Mrs. Sally Ride
1984 - Maida Withers and Brook Andrews performed the charming Mr and Mrs Sally Ride in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to a large audience of tourists under the spaceships in the entrance Brook Andrews and Maida Withers were ...
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 ...
Woman See
1980 and 1981 - Woman See A politically charged feminist performance in eight parts with live music narrative, and mixed media conceived and directed by Maida Withers This work culminated a five-year period of Maida working, as a founding ...
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 ...
Put on the Music…Let’s Dance (1975)
1975 or 1976 - This performance took place at the Washington Project for the Arts on 1227 G Street NW, Washington, DC The space was a very large space (third floor) with high ceiling and a red brick wall for ...