Still Rush:  https://vimeo.com/101001560  (see above)  Open 41:51  – 52:47 End

1991 – Still Rush (New York City dancers, Dance Place,

1992 – Still Rush Performed in Arlington, Virginia February 7 and 8, 1992 by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company in the Dance for the Earth  concert in Arlington Community Center Theater.

1992 –Still Rush was performed in Brasilia, Brazil, May 12, 1992, by MWDCCo and five Brazilian dancers for the Omame Projeto Gala celebration in the spectacular National Theater in Brasilia, Brazil.   Omame Projeto activities were related to the United Nation’s Earth Summit (Eco ’92), June 3 to 14, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.

Still Rush, first titled, Passage, was a poetic change.  Migration, the concept, is about immigration (movement) of a person (people) from one country to another country, by choice and, often, by force.  Maida’s pioneer ancestors (1860, others) departed from Missouri and Illinois, and other locations, and traveled by handcart, wagon, and on foot to what later became known as the Salt Lake Valley.  At that time, the USA territory ended at the Mississippi River…further west was not officially part of the USA. This is one of the great “migrations” for religious freedom.  Ancestors, converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in Scandinavia, England, and other European locations, came to the United States looking to find a safe haven for religious freedom and, hopefully, for a better life.  There were varied struggles and famines that motivating their relocation.  Religious converts chose (often under threat of violence) to leave their home countries.  They were also forced to leave what was, then, America.  Of course, there was the prospect of a better life.  Eventually the pioneers settled what became known as the State of Utah (Jan 4, 1896).