Interviews with Martha Hill

Item data

Title

Interviews with Martha Hill

Collection

Janet Mansfield Soares Video Archive

Names

Hill, Martha, 1900-1995 (Interviewee)
Wolz, Carl (Interviewer)
Meaden, Janice (Interviewer)
Topaz, Muriel (Interviewer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1989-07-13

Table Of Contents

First interview (50 min.) / interviewer, Carl Wolz -- Second interview (43 min.) / interviewer, Janice Meaden -- Third interview (36 min.) / interviewer, Muriel Topaz.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-6982

Subjects

Hill, Martha, 1900-1995 -- Interviews
Wolz, Carl
Meaden, Janice
Topaz, Muriel
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Bennington College
Juilliard School. Dance Division
Dance teachers -- United States
Dance -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States

Genres

Interviews

Notes

Content: Title from opening video credits.
Creation/Production Credits: Property of Janet Soares, Barnard Dance Department.
Venue: Videotaped during interviews at Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Hong Kong 1989 July 13 & 1990 July 26.
Acquisition: Gift; Janet Soares; 2010.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (130 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

First interview with Carl Wolz: Martha Hill reminisces about the first year of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and her impressions; how the students are looked at by the international dance community; remembering their production of Fandango set by Antony Tudor; the Metropolitan Opera Ballet; Juilliard's training and what the students need to learn in order to get professional work; creating the Juilliard Dance Program which opened in 1951/1952; planning the degree curriculum at the HKAPA beginning in 1992; the Hong Kong and Juilliard connection with the HKAPA being modeled after Juilliard; the preparatory division at Juilliard which no longer exists; the beautiful facitities at the HKAPA; and how the International Dance Festival started at the HKAPA in 1986. Second interview with Janice Meaden: Martha Hill discusses the early days of the HKAPA; when and how Meaden and Hill met; the creation of dance programs at NYU, Bennington, Juilliard, and HKAPA; Hill observing the first class of students at the HKAPA and her memories and perception of the building and program; the difference between the temporary quarters and the new permanent structure of the HKAPA; Hills memories of Hong Kong and the Typhoon. Third interview with Muriel Topaz: How Topaz and Hill meet at NYU when Topaz took dance classes with Martha Hill as an Elementary Education major; how Topaz ended up in New York and how NYC felt when she first moved here; about Topaz living in Greenwich House and studying dance in the village when social commentary in Dance was often explored; how Juilliard got started with an invite from William Schuman; meeting Schuman for a drink the day the trustees voted to accept Dance as a professional program at Juilliard; Topaz and Hill seeing each other regularly on the train back and forth from NYC to Philadelphia; establishing the Juilliard curriculum; and the early faculty at Bennington and Juilliard [ends abruptly].

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20196831
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dc615ef0-e84c-0131-0024-3c075448cc4b

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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