Interview with Martha Hill

Item data

Title

Interview with Martha Hill

Collection

Janet Mansfield Soares Video Archive

Names

Hill, Martha, 1900-1995 (Interviewee)
Brown, Thomas (British colorman, active 1844-1845) (Interviewer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1990-07-04
Date Captured: 1990-07-05

Table Of Contents

First interview (56 min.) -- Second interview (24 min.) -- Third interview (12 min.).

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-6983

Subjects

Hill, Martha, 1900-1995 -- Interviews
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
Wolz, Carl
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Bennington College
Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Shakers (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Day on earth (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Dance teachers -- United States
Modern dance -- United States
Dance -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States

Genres

Interviews

Notes

Content: Title from opening video credits; additional title from original VHS cassette label.
Creation/Production Credits: Property of Janet Soares, Barnard Dance Department.
Venue: Videotaped during interview at Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Hong Kong 1990 July 4 & 5.
Acquisition: Gift; Janet Soares; 2010.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

First interview: Martha Hill discusses visiting the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and her relationship with students and staff; her background and growing up in East Palestine, Ohio; attending college in Battle Creek, Mich.; attending a Martha Graham concert in New York and changing her focus from ballet to modern dance; the graduate dance program at NYU, 1926; developing the dance program at Bennington College (first summer, 1934); seeing premiere of Martha Graham's Panarama and Doris Humphrey's With my Red Fires; talking about Humphrey as a colleague and as the head of the Juilliard Dance Theatre in 1950. Second interview: Martha Hill discusses the partisanship myth at Bennington and interacting with Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Graham; the progress of dance in higher education; how socialism and Hitler affected choreographers in the 1930's; being a student of Bessie Schönberg's at University of Oregon; Doris Humphrey's dances performed at the Hong Kong Academy including Passacaglia and Fugue, The Shakers, and Day on Earth. Third interview: Martha Hill talks about Carl Wolz (Dean of Dance, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts) being her student at Juilliard; and concludes by talking about the Hong Kong Academy and its reputation around the world.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20196824
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7eebd760-e84c-0131-1c74-3c075448cc4b

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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