LEGACY, a new work, a collaboration by Maida Withers with Robin Bell, highlights Maida Withers Dance Construction Company's extensive fifty-year archive and Robin Bell's projection work in an experimental video installation that explores the intersection of dance, visual art and social action. LEGACY brings life to dance of the past through technology. Music created and performed by Steve Hilmy from Company archive collection, redesigned for the exhibition. Visitors were encouraged to move freely within Gallery 1, joining in the dance on the walls and ceiling. Legacy/Dance participation script was posted at the entrance to Gallery 1.
Surveying Maida Withers' lifetime of work, LEGACY is a journey into the mind of an experimental dance artist emboldened and fascinated by technology and empowerment through cross disciplinary voices - a story told through still and moving images of live art from the past creating new meaning when the past becomes the future, connecting us to our lives today. LEGACY reveals the power and passion of the moving body in boundary-breaking works of dance on the edge. (excerpt from LEGACY: 50 Years museum booklet)