ON SITE / INSIGHT (ZOOM presentation – 1:30 minutes)

ON SITE / INSIGHT (5 Dances shared)

Ukranian Association, Contemprary Dance Platform with Anton Ovchinnikov, presents a lecture/discussion and video presentation of fascinating ground breaking site specific performances created by Maida Withers, choreographer, dancer/performer, and activist. This online presentation is organized in the framework of “Pam’YATATY” – March 11, 2025.

Ukraine dance project supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding (https://danceplatform.org.ua/remember/en).

ON SITE / INSIGHT features video of works, philosophy, and the ideas that have guided Maida through her intense, creative, performance career. Videos featured include excerpts from the following topics/works:

PUBLIC SPACES & MONUMENTS: White Mansions @ Holy Rood Cemetery; Monuments @ Iwo Jima War Memorial; Sunday Maneuvers @ Theodore Roosevelt Island Park; Wet and Wonderful in Washington @ Pennsylvania Ave. PLAZA; Re-Re Voltaire @ Washington Project for the Arts celebration on H Street NW.

SITE WORK / RESEARCH: SandS CycleS @ Coral Sand Dunes, Kanab, Utah and White Sands, New Mexico; Ancient Lands – Ancient Peoples @ Jooksan Festival, Ansung, Korea (Asia Tour, 1995) on a red earth stage; Utah Land Site Project @ Southern Utah exotic red earth sites, including National Park Bridges.

SITE WORK AND DANCE FILM: Tzveta,Tzveta Kassabova, dancer; Anthony Gongora, Film; Ayo Okunseinde, Film; Steve Hilmy, Music @ DC International Improvisation Plus+Festival.

EXTREME SITE WORK: Stone Garden @ Museu de arte Moderna United Nation’s Earth Summit, Rio de Janaiaro, Brazil, Eco ’92; Anonyty – PARTS Unknown; Washington Project for the Arts Gallery; Matrimony – To Sink or Swim @ Capitol Hotel Swimming Pool; Transaction / Art Lives Here (or NOT) @ Marche Florists Building, Maryland.

DANCE in MUSEUMS: Seeing Jazz Move @ Smithsonian International Gallery (3rd DC International Improvisation Plus+ Festival); This Space Occupied (by Maida) @ GW Flagg Building (former Corcoran Gallery of Art); Icebergs: Glacial Drift @ National Building Museum, Smithsonian; 60 Moves with Future Gaze @ National Exhibition of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; Duel Solo (Anton Ovchinnikov, Ukraine) and Pillow Talk (Alex Caldiero, performance poet with MWDCCo dancers/guests, GW Flagg Building (Former Corcoran Gallery of Art).

USA / Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company:

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Ukraine / Anton Ovchinnikov, Ukranian Association, Contemporary Dance:
https://danceplatform.org.ua/remember/en/