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Northern Lights Festival (Tromso, Norway)
2001 Tromso, Norway (January 2001) Northern Lights Festival • MWDCCo, Global House Band, Tania Fraga, Computer Artist Perform full evening performance: Aurora/2001: Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky (Jan 27)
DC 6th Int’l Improvisation Plus+ Festival
2000 (November 30 to December 10) Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Phffft Company (Cyrus Khambatta), French Embassy,George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, Department of Music, present this popular festival which brings together groups a nd dancers, performance artists ...
Kannon Dance (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2000 St Petersburg, Russia (April 2000) Kannon Dance School and Company, St Petersburg, Russia • Maida Withers created Part III of Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky with Iwona Olszowska, dancer from Poland, and Sasha Kukin, dancer from Russia, and ...
Dance Place – 20/20 Visions
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 Dance Place has had a profound influence on both ...
DC 5th Int’l Improvisation Plus+ Festival
1999 (December 3 and 4) Supported by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance and Department of Music; Goethe Institut, Stichting Fonds Voor de Podiumkunsten Nederlands Vincent Cacalano, GW MFA alumni, was a founding member of ...
Korea – K.A.C. Int’l Exchange (Taejon)
1999 - Jey Young Kim, Korea, Mandy Yim, China, Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers, USA and Korean classical instrumentalists improvised in concert performance November 15, 1999, for the K A C International Exchange Modern Dance Festival in Taejon, Korea The Festival ...
Asia Tour (China and Korea)
1999 Beijing, China (Nov 1999) City Contemporary Dance Company, Willy Tsaos, Beijing, China ▪ Workshops in technique and improvisation (Nov 10, 11) Seoul and Taejon, Korea (Nov 1999) ▪ Seoul, Korea, Perform: Hoam Theatre (November 15) ▪ Taejon City, Korea Perform: Nevertheless…Tenderness, Taejon Cultural Center Korean Int'l Modern ...
Brazil Tour (Ouro Preto and Rio de Janeiro)
1999 Ouro Preto, Brazil (July 1999) Sponsored, in part, by United States Information Agency Ouro Preto is a United Nations dsignated Historic City 31st Festival de Inverno (Winter Festival) of UMFG (Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais) Nacional, Ouro Preto, Brazil ▪ Performing Pitfalls – ...
American-Scandinavian Foundation (Finland, Norway)
1999 Finland and Norway (May/June 1999) American-Scandinavian Research Grant support research for the Aurora 2001 project Withers , traveling along, began her research in Roveniemi, Finland, drove to the top of the world in Norway, down the Fjords to Tromso, Norway, across ...
DC 4th International Improvisation Plus+ Festival
1998 - Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance and Department of Music, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Goethe Institut, French Embassy, and Artslink present this popular festival that brings together groups of dancers, performance artists ...
Side Step Festival – Helsinki, Finland (1998)
Helsinki, Finland (Jan 1998) Side Step Festival – International Dance Improvisation Festival, Zodiak Center for Dance, Helsinki, Finland (January 23 – 25) ▪ Group Improvisation performance during festival
DC 3rd International Improvisation Plus+ Festival
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 - founding curator, ...
Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracus, Venezuela)
1997 Caracus, Venezuela (October/November 1997) Aula Magna Theatre, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, (Nov 1 and 2) ▪ Perform: In Winds of Sand and Nevertheless…Tenderness (Maida Withers; Sarah Slifer) ▪ Workshops: Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo, (October 25 to 31) Maida Withers and ...
France – Theatro Dunois (Paris)
1997 Paris France (July 1997) Theatre Dunois, Paris, France https://wwwtheatredunoisorg/ ▪ Performance: Maida Withers, In Winds of Sand; Sarah Slifer/Giselle Ruzany Stirrings (July 9 and 10) Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was invited by Cyrus Khambatta to tour and perform in a beautiful theatre ...
Poland – Int’l Dance Festival & Conference (Bytom)
1997 Bytom, Katowice, Krakow, Poland (June/July 1997) Silesian Dance Theatre - IV International Dance Festival and Conference ▪ Commission creation of Halda (a mound of waste) an environmental site work created by Withers with Polish dancers, musician, and installation sculptors, Bytom, Poland ▪ Halda ...