2002 – May 3 & 4  Investigation of Late, duet by Maida Withers and Lotta Lundgren with trombone music created and performed live by Cam Miller.  The female duet was presented at Marvin Betts Theatre on the program,  Five Views – 5 Companies – Invitational Concert of five Washington, DC contemporary dance companies selected and produced  by Maida Withers with George Washington University Theatre & Dance Program and Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. In Investigation of Late, Withers was looking at her life and the substantive body of work over her 40-year career and making connection to the theories of the origin and projected ending/demise of the Earth/Universe.  Aspects of this week appeared in Maida on Maida in the Universe.

FIVE VIEWS – 5 companies performance featured:
Maida Withers Dance Construction Company: Investigation of Late – Maida on Maida in the Universe project.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company: Mandala
Mills/Buckley Works: From the Void: we
Kista Tucker Dance Company:  be
ClancyWorks Dance Company:  Without Walls

Maida Withers and Lotta Lundgren (dancer and choreographer from Sweden) premiered a female duet, Investigation of Late.  The female duet was research as Maida was preparing for her evening-length one-woman solo, Maida on Maida in the Universe. “Elements from Investigation of Late (computer stream-of-consciousness writing, projection, and interaction of choreography, chance, and uncertainty) continued into Maida on Maida in the Universe, a dance about the similarities in the artist’s life and the theories of the origin and demise of the Universe.  Withers is interested in looking at her life and the substantive body of work over her 40-year career and making connections with theories of the origin and projected ending of the Universe.”

Investigation of Late – female duet by Lotta Lundgren and Maida Withers

Maida produced Five Companies – Five Views in association with GW Department of Theatre and Dance.   This is in keeping with the view that artists should, when possible,  collaborate to bring about opportunity in dance when few producers/presenters are present. Independent curators provide the opportunity to select artists that are of interest and who are in need, possibly, of support.