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Preview: Maida Withers' Dance Construction Company.


"I've always been political, and living in D.C., we eat, live, and breathe politics," says Maida Withers withers

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, who celebrates the 30th anniversary of her Dance Construction Company this month with the premiere of Thresholds Crossed. The piece, which grew out of her 10 (yes, 10) residencies in Russia, brings together five dancers from Russia and the Ukraine with five American dancers. Thresholds, she says, is about "the violence of war, love of country, passion for freedom, and sorrow for loss--a journey into places where thresholds are crossed." Experimental music and film will complete the picture. A retrospective LAW, RETROSPECTIVE. A retrospective law is one that is to take effect, in point of time, before it was passed.
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 exhibit of Withers' career will be viewable in the theater's Dimock Gallery. April 21, Lisner Auditorium auditorium

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, George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. , Washington, D.C. www.lisner.org or www.maidadance.com.
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Author:Mattingly, Kate
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2006
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