Tukuhnikivatz Film Installation: 01:03:45
Editor – Stefani Altomare-Sese

1996 and 1997 – Tukuhnikivatz: Film Installation (60:00) created for projection  on the 60′ x 60′ Band Shell as part of the evening-length multimedia production Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors GREAT DANCE in the BANDSHELL. Original footage of dancers was filmed on location at Muley Point and Butler Wash, Canyonlands, Arches, Utah and other locations in the Four Corners Area of the Southwest, USA by James Byrne. The projected film features earth slides by celebrated photographer, Bruce Hucko, Moab, Utah.

Tukuhnikivatz (Projected Film in Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz, above) was edited/shortened at varied lengths for submission to film festivals under the names Tukuhnikivatz,  TUK (Tukunikivatz) and Tuk II

Tukuhnikivatz   (00:39:58)
Editor – Jamille Wallick

TUK (Tukuhnikivatz) (00:18:04)
Editor – Ludovic Jolivet

Sponsors:  Sunny and Hardy Redd, LaSal Ranch, GW TV, KUED TV, At the Canyon’s Edge, Canyonlands Field Institute, Forest Service, US Department of Interior.

Premiere: Visual installation, Lincoln Center Great Dance in the Bandshell, NYC, NY 1996:   Adaptation as independent film, 2011.

Tukuhnikivatz (Ute: Tukuhni-kivatz) is a name given by the Ute Nation to a perfectly triangular mountain in southeastern Utah, a future gathering place of the ancients at end time. Of particular influence is the Great Gallery rock art panel and others in the vicinity generally called the “Barrier Canyon Style” and are attributed to the Desert Archaic culture who lived in Utah from 8000 BC through 500 AD.  We honor and recognize the importance of these lands to Anasazi (ancestral Puebloan), Navajo Naion, Zuni, Hopi, and Ute and the Great Gallery, Barrier Canyon Style of the Desert Archaic culture.

Supported, in part, by Sunny and Hardy Redd, GW Television, Joe Pachak, Bruce Hucko, Tony Anderson, Craig Law, Cristy Powell, Becky Knoff, Maida and Arlen Withers, DCCo Board of Directors, Nancy Tartt, Paul Caffrey, Yordanos Baharu, KUED Television, At the Canyon’s Edge, Canyonlands Field Institute, NASA, USDA forest Service, US Department of Interior,

Adam Peiperl’s Kaleidoscope images by permission of Prime Lens Productions Inc. from the video of Barbara Mitchell’sSpectrasphere

Maida Withers
Copyright (c) 1996
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Bruce Hucko, photographs morning Sun behind dancers improvising (sunlight throws shadows) Maida Withers on ledge of a rock @ early village site – Bruce Hucko, photo)

Crissy Lamb & Tim Harling, dance; Bruce Hucko, photo
Maida Withers on rock; Bear’s Ears, 2 flat mountains in backgroundBruce Hucko, Earth Photographer, Collaborator, Moab, Utah

Maida Withers creates shadow; Bruce Hucko, photo

Maida Withers at Muley Point; Bruce Hucko, photo

Maida Withers silhouette, Utah habitat site; Bruce Hucko, photo