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Croatia – Zagrebi! Festival (Zagreb)
Zagreb, Croatia (October 2010) Zagrebi! Festival ▪ Perform: FareWell -To The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! (October 9 and 10)
Lifetime Achievement Award (Las Vegas, Nevada)
2010 - MWDCCo participated in two Dance in the Desert Festivals Maida Withers received a Life Time Achievement Award from Dance in the Desert Festival Las Vegas 2010 " CSN Dance “Daffy” Award Presented by the CSN Dance Program to Maida ...
Where Where IS! Media Production
2011 - MWDCCo established Where Where IS! - a production company for creating dance films The founding members included Ludovic Jolivet, Anthony Gongora, Steve Hilmy, Ayo Okunseinde, Giselle Ruzany, and Maida Withers Filmmakers, composer, dancers joined together to create dance ...
Amazing EarthFEST (Kanab, Utah)
2007 to present - Maida has served on the Board of Directors of the Amazing EarthFEST since 2007 The Festival was founded by Rich Csenge who moved to Kanab from Maine The Dance Construction Company has performed on two occasions ...
reReVoltaire
2010 -Washington Project for the Arts celebrated a ReVoltaire event many years ago WPA recreated Re-Revoltaire in an empty lot on the H Street corridor in Washington, DC MWDCCo did their first improvisation with pillows tied to the dancers bodies ...
Freedom of Information – 24-Hour anti-war performance
2008 - 24-hour 35-State Endurance Event: In response to the ongoing US military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, Miguel Gutierrez invited artists across the country to participate in Freedom of Information 2008 The directives were the same for his original ...
Cultural Envoy’s – U.S. Dept. of State (Kenya, Africa)
2008 Nairobi, Kenya, Africa - US Department of State Cultural Envoys (May/June 2008) GoDown Center for the Arts ▪ Create Fare Well – Parched Earth; Remembrances from Tomorrow, 6 men and 3 Kenyan dancers ▪ Perform: Fare Well: Tipping Point; Thresholds Crossed (Gulag/Art ...
Brazil – LIMS Conference on Dance (Rio de Janeiro)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (April 2008) LIMS Celebration Conference, Choreographic Centre, Regina Miranda, Executive Director of LIMS, NYC, NY ▪ Perform: Fare Well: Tipping Point (April 26) Participate in conference performances and scholarly presentations Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
DC 13th Int’l Improvisation Plus+ Festival
2007 - (September 27 to 30) Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, presents this popular festival which brings together groups and dancers, performance artists and musicians from around the world to perform and ...
Lifelong, Loving Commitment to Dance – Honors
2007 - "Dance Place "Honors Maida Rust Withers," Professor of Dance, George Washington University; Founder and Artistic Director of Maida Withers Dance Construction Company" "We honor you for your lifelong, loving commitment to the field of dance As a treasured teacher ...
Africa Residency (Meru, Kenya)
2007 - In Meru, Kenya, Africa, Karambu Ringera and her family, friends of Maida, were instrumental in training women with HIV/AIDS and those suffering from domestic violence to establish small grassroots businesses, educate their children, and together with International Peace ...
Cuba (Havana and Santiago de Cuba)
2007 (February 5 to 10) - USA modern dancers traveled to Santiago de Cuba under the leadership of Jim LePore to study the dance and music ritual of the professional company, Cutumba Ballet Folklorico Santiago de Cuba At the time, ...
Russia – Frank Williams Exhibition, Thresholds Crossed
2007 - For the World Premiere of Thresholds Crossed in Moscow, Russia, the Russian/American project, Frank Williams, an American sculptor living and working in Moscow, presented in the gallery space at Luna Theatre, an exhibition of his sculptures Williams work ...
Russia Tour (Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk)
2007 Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Russia - US Embassy Tour (April 2007) Perform: Thresholds Crossed ▪ US Consulate Celebrate America Week; Arkhangelsk, Russia (April 16) ▪ Luna Theatre; Thresholds Crossed, Russian/American dancers; Moscow, Russia (April 26) ▪ International Festival of Dance "Isadora," Krasnoyarsk, Russia (April ...
GULAG (Norilsk, Russia)
2006 Norilsk, Russia (2006) Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company were invited to participate in the 3rd International Annual Conference “Integrity of Cultural Space or Sum of Territories” in Norilsk, Russia The conference was founded by Irina Prokhorova, intellectual and manager ...