(2008) – (April 17-20-tentative) FareWell – Tipping Point refers to the crisis of global warming demonstrated most vividly in the Arctic and Antarctica, continents of ice on our planet that are disappearing. This multimedia solo was created by Maida Withers  with Jadee Mitchell, sopohisticated George Washington University dancer.  Steve Hilmy, electronic composer creates and performs the haunting music and Ayo Okunseinde, new media artist, performs his overlays, an installation of art and nature that is projected on the white floor and backdrop to swallow the performer in the water/ice.

“Have we reached the tipping point, the point of no return?  Huge mountains of ice are breaking away, melting and calving, creating astonishing spectacles of nature and streaming rivers of ice water. These continents of the North and South Poles have cradled the Earth for centuries.  What does this mean for the human race.”  Maida Withers.

Fare Well: Tipping Point, early choreography, developed into the opening of  Maida Withers solo,  FareWell:  to the End of the World As We Know it OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise!  an evening-length work performed and danced by Maida Withers that toured extensively internationally.

Photos: Jadee Mitchell, dancer

Adam Peiperl combines Jadee Mitchell rehearsal photos with online photos.                  Adam Peiperl, photographer, combines Jadee Mitchell’s photo with online photos