Question?  Were three two performances?
Program February 23, 1974 – Was this the evening event?  John Driscoll, composer/musician, and Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (John Bailey and Brook Andrews, JoAnn Sellars) performed throughout the gallery during the opening public celebration of the addition of the new contemporary gallery of the Columbus Gallery of Art.

Program:  February 3, 1974 – Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, John Driscoll, sound composer, and four dancers and four musicians from Ohio State University performed “Changing the System (1973 by Christian Wolff.  ) in the Columbus Gallery of Art 2:00 to 3:30 pm (see program below).

Evening Event:
For the opening of the contemporary gallery, John Driscoll performed his work “Under the Putting Green – Version 4“.   What Chester Makes the World Takes was also performed at the Museum. (other????)
John Driscoll:  “I used an oriental temple gong that they had been using as a wastebasket, and before we left they almost gave it to me.  Then someone realized what it was. ” John Driscoll (letter to MRW 2021 – A musical instrument for John’s work)   The Dance Construction Company also performed What Chester Makes the World Takes. (John has a program which states the Christian Wolff work is “Score for Resonating Instruments and Voices,” but John D thinks that is an error. (John has a program which states the Christian Wolff work is “Score for Resonating Instruments and Voices,” but John D thinks that is an error.

Information for event celebrating new gallery:  Columbus Gallery Contemporary Art opening event????  Date.  Feb 3 or Feb 23, other?
Improvisation, Fragments, Maneuvers Etc…around, through
filling the space and time of gallery spaces and art objects
Watertower??? Ping Pong Balls.

?  Is this Feb 3?  Not associated with the opening of the new gallery?   The afternoon will involve dance throughout the Gallery as well as performances of specific events at specified times in specified spaces.

?  Is this Feb 23?  Evening performance – Dance The event was part of the Gala Celebration of the opening of the contemporary wing of the Columbus Museum of Art.  (Internet indicates the name was changed to Columbus Museum of Art in John Driscoll and Maida Withers Dance Construction Company performance featured music by John Driscoll based on his original score, Under the Putting Green – Version 4  along with What Chester Makes the World Takes.   Included in the performance was Score for Resonating Instruments and Voices  by Christian Wolf, famous inventive musician/composer.

John, do you want to comment on your work in museums?  

MWDCCo as one of the earliest dance groups to perform consistently in museums.   That may have been due to the large number of federal and local museums in Washington, DC.  The Dance Construction Company considers our museum work one of our leading initiatives….not performing stage works in a museum but the museum as an architectural and content location for creating new and specific work.

Note:  The museum performance occurred during Maida Withers’ Artist in the School two-week national residency in Columbus, Ohio. Maida was part of the original team for the newly designed National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts Artist in the School program.  This was an important national movement to get all the arts in all the schools.  Maida did two-week residencies in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, others.

University of Ohio dancers.

John Driscoll Program (I don’t think this is the opening event of the new gallery?????