(1988)  DUNE:  LEDGE:  Moving Earth/DUNE  August 30 and 31
Maida solo Dune in the production
Music:  Michael Willis and Bruce Robinson
LEDGE. https://vimeo.com/100503881  (00:43 to 08:29)

(1990) DUNE: Earth Spirit Rising – Maida Withers, solo March 30
Maida, solo, is shared by other dancers: Cecily Carsky Miller, John Lancaster, and Mark Thompson.
https://vimeo.com/93606139  (0:09:13 to 0:16:53)

(1991) Reference, only: Sands Cycles Film shot on Coral Dunes, Utah and White Sands, New Mexico.    Maida Withers, dancer
Excerpts:  https://vimeo.com/463079035 (11:12 minutes);
Entire Film:  https://vimeo.com/7692794.

(1993) In Winds of Sand 00:00:24 to 00:07:11 to  (opening of evening-length work, Dune) Jan 29/30, Marvin Center Theatre.

Dune and Moving Earth Dunes – created and performed by Maida  Withers that takes place with the full body mostly on the floor, generally, with a flowing stream of sand forming a small mountain, coming from a sand-bag above. This solo originated out of Maida’s experience as a child in Kanab, Utah, Withers place of birth, where the family visited the Coral Dunes National Park on the outskirts of Kanab, for family entertainment on Sunday. Maida Withers, dancer, and Verbal Call Cliff, filmmaker, create a thirty minute film on the Coral Dunes, Sands Cycles.

Moving Earth / Dune engages the entire body in a somewhat “tough” poetic sensuality of connection to the moving dunes that are subtlety and changing shape moment by moment.  The Coral Dunes have been taken over by dune buggies that roar through the coral dunes disturbing both the sound and the moving earth…an exciting sport.

Isabel Luke Rust, Maida’s mother, loved the various colors of the earth in southern Utah. The Rust family move from Kanab to Salem, Utah was a  difficult for the entire family. Kanab was a magical place.  Isabel filled glass fruit jars for canning with colored sands from the varied landscapes in Southern Utah. Today Maida has two jars of the Coral Dunes in her home.

At the time DUNE was created, the relationship of the body to gravity was being explored.

Many of Withers dances have reference to sensuality of the body.