Take Off

1968 or 1971 (TBD) – Take Off; Airport Radio Tower Sound Score;
Choreographed by Maida Withers for six DC women dancers (GW undergraduate dance students). Take Off is a metaphor for life based on the power of the airplane to encourage our daring and to aspire to greater heights and new adventures; also to address the relationship of humans to flight….

Premiere, Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC.
Dancers: Carolyn Tate; Rosemary Wells, Shelley Chaffin, Susan Eidson, others TBD.

Additional information may be located in the GW Gelman Library archive of Elizabeth Burtner or Maida Withers archive.

Photo: Lisner Auditorium, kneelsmWashington, DC

 

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Visit:  http://maidadance.com/works/early-works-by-maida-withers-1966-to-1971/

 


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