Amazing EarthFest – Dance | Maida Withers Dance Construction Company

Amazing Earthfest – Dance
https://www.amazingearthfest.org/a

Festival Introduction:

A unique Learning Festival in Sunny Southern Utah annually since 2007.
Arts & Culture, Outdoor Adventure, Science, Film, and Dark Night Skies!
Amazing Earthfest is a unique festival for its celebration of the magnificent and historic earth sites in Kanab, Utah and accessible in the region within day travel from Kanab (Zion and Bryce National Parks and Grand Canyon National Park). Earthfest receives support from the County of Kanab, Bureau of Land Management, Dark Sky, and other organizations and corporations in the state and region.

Amazing Earthfest is a not-for-profit organization founded by Rich Csenge
Maida Rust Withers has served on Earthfest’s Board of Directors continuously since 2009

Connection to Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company:
Maida Rust Withers was born and spent her very early years with her family in Kanab, Utah.
William and Woodruff Rust, Maida’s father and grandfather, were participants in establishing early tourism in the region through the building and management in 1925 of the Kaibab Lodge, 18 miles from the spectacular North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The early Kaibab Lodge motto: “where the deer come to see the people.” In 2025, the historic Lodge on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was destroyed by fire. The future of the public engagement with the Grand Canyon is unknown at this time (2026).

2009 3rd Amazing EarthFest:
Multimedia Performance: Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company
FareWell to the End of the World OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise
evening-length performance focused on consciousness of the future of planet earth
Historic Crescent Moon Theater – 150 South 100 East – Kanab, Utah
Friday, May 22, 2009 @ 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm $5.00
Fare Well: The End of the world As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise:
Maida Withers, dancer
Steve Hilmy, composer/musician
Ayo Okunseinde, mulstimedia artist
“Live, on-stage, multimedia dance performance featuring Maida Rust Withers and member of the award-winning Maida Withers Dance Construction Company from Washington, DC. Opening with live acts by local dancers. A presentation of extraordinary choreography, talent and grace, by Maida Rust Withers, a native of Kanab that you will not want to miss. Emotionally powerful, and beautiful!”
*See MWDCCo FareWell program information below:

2009 FareWell Festival Program Information:

2020 13th Amazing EarthFest:
Maida Withers: Film / Lecture / Discussion (Virtual / ZOOM)
Dance With the Earth – Spirit and Spectacle!
October 4, 2020 @ 3 pm Mountain Time
“Experience the earth and the art of dance in new and challenging environments on film, and engage in conversation about making dance works that reveal an ancient and contemporary knowledge through the arts.” (Maida Withers)
Click: 3rd Amazing Earthfest\

2020 Maida Wither Festival Film Program Information:
“Join Maida Withers, Professor of dance at George Washington University on Zoom in exploring Earthas a source for artistic content, and Kanab as the artist’s place of birth. Enjoy adventures and excerpts on film of dancers in the spectacular lands of Southern Utah and the Four Corners region with the award winning choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. Experience the Earth and the art of dance in new and challenging environments and engage in conversation about making dance works that reveal ancient and contemporary knowledge through the arts. In this presentation, Maida Withers will show films of dancers on location in Utah and in performance at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Great Dance in the Band Shell in New York City.
FhFest Film: Maida Withers: DCCo Photo: Bruce Hucko DCCo: Muley Point