Category Archives: Stage Works
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, Maida Withers Interview, PBS WETA-TV
1981 - an interview in Washington, DC on PBS, WETA-TV, regarding the making or 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 ...
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 ...
Catching Butterflies and Other Things That Move
[embed]https://vimeocom/91520288[/embed] 1979 - "Fast paced dance of a recurring movement phrase where dancers interrupt and obstruct the motion of other dancers The movements used to interrupt and those movements that are interrupted are both manipulated and employed in the structural development ...
Phase Tracing II and The Wall
Dates may be incorrect Check archives! Were Phase Tracing II and the Wall on the same dates? 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 ...
Entourage
LISTED IN THE CHOREOGRAPHY BUT NO OTHER NOTES 1979 - Entourage - Music by Joe Clark Performance: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
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 (Program note) "Dancing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For Verabel
1977 - - The duet places the woman inside her home environment with a window, radio, bed springs suspended in the space The work has the lead solo figure, Ellen, in a dream of herself as a sexually attractive woman ...