Maida Withers – Washington Project for the Arts – John Driscoll Speakers Installation

1975 – Installation performance with MWDCCo and John Driscoll, electronic composer/musician/sculptor, in the open theater space of Washington Project for the Arts in the earliest location on G Street, Washington, DC.
Bog Works featured an installation of  unique homemade loudspeakers hung in the space by John Driscoll along with flashlights hung on ropes situated as functional sculptures throughout the space.
John was seated in the center of the open space and the audience was seated in the center of the room with the dance and installation in the periphery. Dancers were also lighting designers by choosing to move the hanging battery-operated lights  (turning them off and on, spotlighting another dancers) by swinging, rotating or focusing the light on dancers or the musician located around the space and on the elevated platform.
The work began with dancers wearing battery operated lights and the dancers had a loose script.

The program lasted one hour.

Description moved from another location.  Waiting for John Driscoll data (2025)

Home-Made Speakers Program:
John Driscoll built an installation of several diverse home-made (audio) speakers hanging by ropes that extended high in the room to the arched roof ceiling (old opera house space) and close to the floor through the large renovated WPA space, Washington, DC.   Audience sat along the wall and also out / under and near the unique hanging homemade loudspeakers.  Dancers moved among the loudspeakers, interacting with the space and the sound generated by John’s electronic music.  The speakers could also move (i.e. swing back and forth; wind up and unwind the ropes to spin, etc).  The audience could move to new locations in the space to hear the sounds in a new way.  This was an incredible visual and auditory spectacle!!!
Dancers: Original MWDCCo dancers: Maida Withers, John Bailey, Brook Andrews, JoAnn Sellars, Betty Tittsworth.)

(Requested information on titles, events, photos from John Driscoll in California.  Hopeful he has an archive for reference).