Maida has created award winning video art and collaborated on documentary works for festival and television airing that also features her talking about the arts. Withers has documented her performances from1972 - current.
Fare Well - The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! Perfromance Documentary 38:58 min (For complete information, photographs, project videos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Nairobi, Kenya see FareWell)
Thresholds Crossed(2006) Performance Documentary 75-min Dance documentary of the world premiere performance in Lisner
Auditorum, Washington, DC. Maida Withers concept/producer/choreographer;
DCCompany and international dancers from Russia and Ukraine; Linda Lewett, editor/animator; Ludovic,
camera. DVD available. (For photographs see Thresholds_Crossed)
Thresholds Crossed - GULAG / Art Angar (2004) Dance-Art Film 4-min Dance-Art video shot on location in an historic building built
in the 1920s by Solovki Island GULAG, forced labor camp, Solovki, White
Sea, Russia used as the Center for Contermporary Art for artistic residencies on the island. Choreography from Part II of Thresholds Crossed stage work. Maida Withers concept/choreographer;Maida Withers and Anthony Gongora,
dancers; Linda Lewett, camera; Megan Whittemore, editor; Dance Construction Company, producer.
Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky; Dance-Art Documentary 28:30 min
Art, science, technology documentary video on the creation of Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky - a poetic odyssey through space from the Sun to Earth. Maida Withers, producer, writer, director, choreographer; and narrator; Nikodimos Fikru, editor, Maida Withers and Linda Lewett, documentary footage; Tania Fraga, virtual reality artist (Brazil); Oystein Sevag, composer with the Global House Band (Norway). (For photographs and complete information about the stage work see aurora2001)
Dance of Auroras - Fire in the Sky; Trailer/Short (2001) 4:50
min
Promotional trailer / short based on footage shot in rehearsals and performance
of Aurora/2001 at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC. Linda Lewett; camera;
Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, producer.
Tukuhnikivatz (1996) Dance-Art Film 61 min
Original film for stage performance of Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit
Planet *Tukuhnikivatz, Lincoln Center, NYC, NY; Maida Withers, concept
and choreography; DCCompany; Stefani Altomare-Sese, editor; GWTV, producer.
Tukuhnikivatz (TUK I) (1996) Film Trailer 2:00-min
Promotional video based on the art film TUK I; Maida Withers, concept
and choreography; DCCompany; Stefani Altomare-Sese, editor; GWTV, producer.
SandS CycleS(1992) Dance-Art Film 30-min.
Dance-art video shot at White Sands, New Mexico and Coral Dunes, Utah
edited to the hero's journey described by Joseph Campbell: innocent, martyr,
orphan, caretaker, warrior, destroyer, magician, and the ruler; concept
and solo performance by Maida Withers; Verabel Cluff, camera, editor,
and producer. Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil (1992); Women Make Movies
VIII (1993), Washington, D.C.; IMZ Dance Screen, Lyon, France (1994);
installation for solo performance of In Winds of Sand. (For photographs see PastWorks)
Orbit(1990) Dance-Art Film 3:30-min
Dance-art video, male duet, conceived and directed by Maida Withers; Paul
Caffrey, editor; Eddie Taketa and Greg Simeon, dancers; GWTV, producer.
Excerpt from Obsession – America’s Obsession with Sex.
Premiere: IMZ Dance Screen in Frankfurt Germany (1992); Selected for showing,
D.C. 1990 International Film Festival and l991 Women In Film Festival,
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.
Ledge(1989) Cable-TV Performance Documentary 30-min
Dance documentary video; Maida Withers, choreography; John Lancaster and
Maida Withers, dancers; Linda Lewett, videographer; Cable TV, Metro-Arts
Program, Fairfax Cable, Virginia, producer.
Perfect Moment at WPA (1989) Documentary Film 10-min
Taped in 1989 at the height of the NEA censorship controversy, footage appeared on Oprah! and on newscasts across the country. The exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe was mounted at the Washington Project for the Arts after the Corcoran Gallery of Art was pressured to cancel. Interviews feature curator Philip Brookman and James Fitzpatrick, Esq. Linda Lewett, producer and editor, Matt Dibble camera, and Maida Withers, co-concept and interviewing subjects on camera.
One Minute Wander (2001) Dance-Art Film 00:49-min
Maida Withers improvises out of doors on rocks near Potomac River; shot and edited by Linda Lewett.
Dance DC (2006) Street Performance Documentary 3:00- min
1700 K Street, Washington, DC street dance and demonstration/strike. Participants in 12th DC Improvisation Festival. Camera and edit, Maida Withers, founder of DC International Plus+ Festival.
Light Suite: Rings, Dunes, Wall Floating (1987) 18:30-min
Experimental video combining polarized light sculptures and dance; Maida
Withers, choreographer; DCCompany, dancers; Adam Peiperl, sculptor; Paul
Caffrey, editor; GWTV, producer.
Obsession: America's Obsession with Sex; Cable-TV Performance Documentary (1987)
Evening length commentary on sexual revolution starting with Elvis Presley. Linda Lewett, camera and editor; Producer, Fairfax Cable. Choreography: Maida Withers; Music: Michael Willis and Nuvieux Music Ensemble; Premiere: Mexico City, Mexico. (For photos see PastWorks)
State of the Art; Cable-TV Performance Documentary(1986)
Examines the conflict of artist in society with art as business. Adapted for television: Linda Lewett, camera and editor; Fairfax Cable, producer; choreograph, Maida Withers; music, Michael Willis; light design, William DeMull; Premiere: San Jose, Costa Rica. (For photographs see PastWorks)
Laser Dance: Departure, Quest, Domain, Rites, Skylight, Departure (1985) Cable-TV Performance Documentary 23:30-min
Dance documentary video from 16mm film, excerpts of the evening-length premiere, shot in Lisner Auditorium,
Washington, DC; Maida Withers concept and choreography; DCCompany, dancers;
Bob Boilen, interactive sound installation; Rockne Krebs, argon laser
installation; Linda Lewett, camera and editor; Dance Construction Company,
producer. Performance takes places in an installation/grid of argon laser beams on stage and in the theatre connected by by over 50 mirrors.
(For photographs see PastWorks)
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz (1996)
Performance Documentary 61:39 min
Evening-length multimedia installation and performance based on ancient
and contemporary earth consciousness and Native American mythology commissioned
by Lincoln Center. Paul Caffrey, camera and editor; GWTV, producer. Stage Production: Maida Withers, concept/choreography/video; Brent Michael
Davids, Native American/Mohican composer and music ensemble; Bruce Hucko,
earth photography; Adam Peiperl, kaleidoscope photography; Verabel Cluff,
Stefanie Altomare-Sese, video; Jennifer Kinloch, visual installation;
Thomas Fiocci, set; Turker Ozdogan, masks; Kellie Owens, costume design;
Spencer Brown, light design. Premiere: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors
GREAT DANCE in the BANDSHELL Series, Damrosch Park, NYC. (For 2 min trailer, 30 min excerpts, information and photographs see PastWorks)
Maida Withers (1984) 7:30-min
Artist profile - Maida; ABC-TV special for Saturday Magazine,
Washington, DC.
MISCELLANEOUS VIDEOS - MAIDA WITHERS
Mary Christmas / The Ax; Performance Documentary (1992)
Maida Withers performs at Cabaret Re-Voltaire at The Washington Project for the Art's. "The Ax was done when I was deeply involved with environmental/ecology issues. The plastic suit represents the risk put on our survival as we destroy our trees that clean our air that gives us life-sustaining oxygen. The choice is between my love of the shiny powerful and potentially destructive ax and my love of nature and my own life."
Dance 24 Hours; Documentary Excerpt 3:00 min
Maida Withers dances blindfolded with ear's plugged for 24 hours in a performance/protest/ritual in solidarity with those displaced by the brutality of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places. 24 Hours was performed simultaneously with Miguel Gutierrez, founder in NYC, and 35 dance artists in 35 other states. Withers performance was streamed for public viewing.
Under the Radar; Trailer, only (2007) Documentary film based on view of Russiann dancers, producers, and choreographers about modern dance in Russia. Taped during tour of modern dance festivals with Maida Withers Dance Construction Company in St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk and Solovki, Russia plus visiting Russian dance company presented in New York City at DTW. Maida Withers, concept; Linda Lewett, camera and editor.
Dance, Dance, Dance (1978) 30-min each
Ten-part dance series for NBC-TV, Washington, DC; Narrator and concept,
Maida Withers. National distribution: Chicago, Los Angeles, New
York City, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.
From Movement to Dance: People, Creatures, Things(1967)
15-min
16mm black and white film; Dancer, Maida Withers; Producer: Mid-Atlantic
Educational Institute.
