Video: Spirit Path/Migration @  Dance Place

1990 (Date TBD) Dance Place
19??  (Date TBD) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater (photos below)

Performance at Dance Place, Washington, DC.
Kaleidoscope by Adam Peiperl – Mark Thompson, dance figure

(1990) Spirit Path / Migration (date TBD) Duet by Maida Withers and Mark Thompson related to “Earth” projects. The duet features the classic male/female figures in constant and close relationship and includes extreme “live” vocals by Maida and Mark along with two male, native American singers/drummers performing “live” downstage. Stunning kaleidoscope images combined with images of Mark Thompson were created by Adam Peiperl, visual artist/photographer.  The performance concludes with projections of light creating dancer bodies as human shadows and human petroglyphs.  Maida and Mark extreme vocals include vibrating the hands striking the throat creating dramatic vocal improvisations.  Costumes featured white organza fabric wrapped and tied on both male and female dancers.

Manipulation of white hand held objects by dancers  on stage to catch and move projected images  was discovered during an improvisation session in Moab, Utah with Bruce Hucko, renowned earth photographer.  This magical performance action appears in several works include Spirit Path/Migration and  later in Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet *Tukuhnikivatz.

Adam Peiperl – projected kaleidoscope with Mark Thompson, dancer

Adam Peiperl – projected kaleidoscope with Mark Thompson, dancer

Photos Below:  Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre (Date TBD
Maida Withers and Mark Thompson
Rehearsal : Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater (Date TBD)

Rehearsal:  Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater (Costume change)
Mark Thompson and Maida Withers