An Exhibit
of Photographs and Video - A Retrospective Spanning Four Decades
of the Innovative Career of Prolific Choreographer and Dancer, Maida
Withers - available to tour
Withers is "our prime evangelist of the novel and strange
byways of dance, a tireless advocate of causes, aesthetic and otherwise,
and a human juggernaut in the force of her wit stamina and intelligence."
-The Washington Post
Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life showcases Maida Withers and
her history as artistic director of the Dance Construction Company
along with local and international collaborators. The exhibit covers
an astonishing array of works for stage, site-specific locations,
and video art.
The exhibit culminates with displays of propaganda art and other
information and images from Russia and America related to the process
involved in the creation of her latest work, Thresholds Crossed.
Withers and the Company have been engaged in over nine projects
in Russia since 1997. Thresholds Crossed, an evening-length
work of dance, new music, and video, explores the events, ideology,
and humanistic issues that link the United States with the former
Soviet Union and contemporary Russia. Featured in the work are dancers
from Russia, the Ukraine, and the United States.
Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life celebrates work created
over four decades when Withers began to perform and choreograph
in the mid-1960s in the nation’s capital - Washington, DC. Through
her experimentation and daring to ask important questions, Withers
became an important leader in the development of concepts and performance
that came to define post-modern dance. Her collaborations with visual
artists, composers/musicians, scientists, cyber world artists, and
others, are distinctive in both the process of investigation and
the works created.
The exhibition features many of the images available in other sections
of this web page.
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