She used surreal stage props and giant drawings to create a visual theater that combined a rich Latin-American pictorial sensibility with the minimalism of the New York scene.
The performances Dining Room, Self Lifting Forwards, Walking, Dialogue & Stop, Jump up a Pyramid, 3 Radios, Guessing a Person's Movement, The Birds, Change of Volume with Distance, Shoulder Dance, Nine People Square, and Shoes were all included in the program.
In Cat's Cradle (1975) six women used a loop of rope to enact the titular game, their bodies standing in for fingers as they create various geometric designs.
On this occasion Whitman showed: Staircase, Mummies, Volcano, Cloud, Ghost, Airplane, or Passing Through Plane, Floating Stairs, and Family Portrait.
Whitman created South, a visually complex and an exuberant concert at the Guggenheim Museum presented in 1979, based on the artist's past in Chile.
Whitman's films, photographs, original props and notebooks were also presented at the Whitney Museums exhibition Rituals Of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, And The New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980 (31 October 2013 – 2 February 2014), curated by Jay Sanders.
Her visual work presents multiples layers of graphite, disruptive structures, disintegrating architecture, and sometimes spiraling movement intersected by photographic fragments, objects, and collage pieces.