This work was created in collaboration with Keith Kramer of the Baltimore Composer's Forum. The duet, a study of space with live flute, premiered at Baltimore Museum of Art and selected for the Perceptions Contemporary Dance Festival in New York City in September 2010.

Choreographer Lauren Withhart investigates voyeurism, transparency, and the fragile perspective of public versus private space in a multi-media installation where women find themselves as both observers and performers.
Guest choreography by Associate Professor Patrik Widrig.
The MFA Thesis Concert is the culminating creative work required for the three year Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance.
Set Design: Collin Ranney
Costume Design: Adriana Diaz
Lighting Design: Jedidiah Roe
Photography: Zachary Z. Handler

Influenced by Nijinsky's Rite of Spring, this project explores feminine identity, protest, and the sacrifice of territory. Original score by Baltimore-based composer Jin-Hwa Choi and text excerpts from Judith Butler and Catherine Millet.
Performed by: Sarah Anne Austin, Adrienne Kraus Latanishen, Monica Warren, Martha Johnston, Jenny Berkowitz, Lynne Price, and Melissa Talleda.
Work-in-progress showing at Baltimore Theatre Project (2011). Debut at Joe's Movement Emporium (2012). Reprise at Dance Place (2013). Presented in New York at Green Space, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, and Judson Church.

withhart.dance.projects participated in the AKIMBO Artwalk festival where they created site-specific performance art in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District. Audience members traveled throughout the festival. Performers collaborated with Baltimore-based visual artists, musicians, and Station North businesses to create the interactive festival performance.

Withhart presents a series of solo performances with both the site and audience engagement in consideration. Utilizing post-modern performance practice, Withhart often incorporates audience participation or alters audience perspective through shifts in the environment. Her solo works develop from personal stories and current cultural issues and juxtapose the humorous with profound.

Diet (2010): An improvisation that includes a love scene with a cheeseburger and treadmill. Set to Wesley Willis's "I'm sorry that I got fat."

#boiledrabbits (2012): "therapy, projection, transference, and other shenaningans..." Incorporating audience participation and set to Annie Ross's "Twisted."

yes, and... (2013): Exploring the concept of rapid accumulation as inspired by her new life as a mommy of twins.

suadade (2013): a deeply personal solo performed in the round. Nostalgia and the feeling of loss that can only come from the deepest sense of love.

A large ensemble piece created for The Collective, set to Blondie's "The Tide is High" - this humorous piece is a characature of femininity and the woman image in our media and culture.

"solar" is a true artistic collaboration between science and the arts. The idea to create "solar" came from a NASA-contracted engineer who is working on the Solar Probe Plus project that launches in 2018 to complete the closest orbit of the sun and collect unique data on its journey. Inspired by the project description, spatial and time-based characteristics, this piece was created and continues to be developed in collaboration with the scientists and dancers.

This current project is an exploration of goodbyes. With a focus on shifting landscapes, this installation and multi-media work seeks to create a shifting, unsettled landscape through which the inhabitants negotiate a utopian balance of space and time in relation to each other and the environment.