Bunker Fridays, Washington, DC, presents Apocalypse Fatigue, an online performance, May 2, 2025, 4 to 5 pm, by the legendary DC dancer/choreographer Maida Withers, Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, and Randall Packer, visual media, composer, founder of Third Space Network .

Bunker Fridays, Washington, DC, presents Apocalypse Fatigue, an online performance, May 42 2025, 4 to 5 pm, by the legendary DC dancer/choreographer Maida Withers, Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, and Randall Packer, visual media, composer, founder of Third Space Network .

  
Flyer: Randall Paker               Screen shot: Julianne Brianza

Artists came together at this highly charged, chaotic political time in the history of America to speak openly about Apocalypse Fatigue​:

We rise NOT because it is not easy
We rise because it is the ONLY thing left worth doing.
​We gather NOT because we are certain of victory.
We gather BECAUSE the act of gathering itself is a victory against the isolating machinery of despair.  (Packer)

​In the face of a torrent of apocalyptic news and collapsing realities, Maida embodies our struggle in a defiant act of resistance: a symbol of reclaiming our dignity, our democracy, and our right to stand against despair.  Randall has assembled a dramatic visual spectacle of images of Los Angeles fires, Elon Musk’s rants of jubilation with disturbing symbolic arm gestures, Trump and Zelenski in the White House, a belittlement moment captured on television for the world to see.   

Screen Shot: Julianne Brianza

Artistic Support:
*Maida Withers, Dance Artist, Collaborator
*Randall Packer, Visual Media, Composer (digital music), Technical Production, Text, Founder of Bunker Fridays & Third Space Networks
*Phyllis Hecht, Presentation Assistance, Bunker Fridays & Third Space Network

Resources:

Home

Online collection (web page/archive): Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company.

http://thirdspacenetwork.com/:
2025:  Each Friday at 4PM ET, live from the UNDERGROUND STUDIO BUNKER IN WASHINGTON, DC, provocateurs and instigators from the arts and beyond are brought together online for a lively critique of events and situations as they unfold: through performance, music, satire, poetics and creative dialogue.