LEDGE (Film)

 

LEDGE / Film  (1989)  Seven-part  mythical journey – a duet, man  & woman – together – on earth – in time and space, performed by Maida Withers and John Lancaster to an original new music score by composer Michael Willis in a sparse stage set of hanging ropes .

“LEDGE” Metro-Arts Program, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation -TV (FCAC) Virginia – a  production of Maida Withers’ Dance Construction Company funded, in part, by the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities.

LEDGE:  Dance/ Art Video  
Documentary: Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company
Live Performance: November 12/13, 1988; Video Published: 1989
Producer / Director: Linda Lewett
Camera: 
Linda Lewett, Matt Dibble
Editor:
Judy Lowe
Audio  VTR:  Scott Holmquist
Artistic Advisor:  Maida Withers
Original Performance Venue: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC
Choreographer / Dancers : Maida Withers and John Lancaster
Original Music: 
Michael Willis and Bruce Robinson
Shoot Location: 
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre / Washington, DC


Maida Withers, Dunes

LEDGE – Film, Dance Documentary (1989)
Live, Stage Performance (1988)
https://vimeo.com/100503881/

Dunes
(0:00:42 to 0:08:28)
Mountain Birthing  (0:08:33 to 0:21:32)
Man Birthing (0:21:36 to 0:24:18)
Earthworks (0:24:20 to  0:27:00)
Crossings  (0:27:02 to 35:49)
Earth Spirit Rising  (0:35:53  to: 0:38:54
Soaring  (0:39:03 to 0:42:22)
Fairfax Cable  TV – FCAC

 


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