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Interview with Martha Hill
- Title
- Interview with Martha Hill [sound recording]
- Author
- Hill, Martha.
- Publication
- 1983-1984.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | reel 2 | Audio | Restricted use | *MGZTC 3-1619 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | reel 1 | Audio | Restricted use | *MGZTC 3-1619 [sound cassette] reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 sound cassettes (100 min.)
- Summary
- Cassette 1 (55 min.). Recorded March 30, 1983. Ms. Hill discusses the Bennington College summer festivals; her husband and how she met him; John Martin; teaching dance criticism at Bennington; Graham's American document; first meeting Graham; dance training; her family in Ohio; Graham and Louis Horst; Horst doing concerts for other companies; Graham's Primitive mysteries; Lewis Isaacs; Merce Cunningham; choreographing for Horst's classes; Hanya Holm; relationship of the early companies of Humphrey-Weidman, Holm, and Limón to Graham.
- Cassette 2 (45 min.). Recorded January 18, 1984. Side 1. Ms. Hill discusses the follies [Greenwich Village]; attending a Graham concert in 1926; leaving ballet classes to study with Graham; various schools; Graham's early living spaces; Graham's fastidiousness; Graham's day; Graham as prolific reader and researcher; company parties; the "church social" atmosphere of sewing costumes; Primitive mysteries' concert and costumes -- Side 2. Graham's colitis; Graham's mother and her sister, Jeordie [Georgia Graham]; attire for class; taking a shower before class; relationship with Horst; marriage to Erick Hawkins; Hawkins' poor eyesight; Graham's classes.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Agnes de Mille.
- Subjects
- Graham, Martha
- Graham, Martha > Primitive mysteries
- Graham, Martha > American document
- Hawkins, Erick
- Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992
- Musical comedies > Greenwich Village follies
- Dance criticism
- Horst, Louis
- Cunningham, Merce
- Limón, José
- Audiotapes > Hill, M
- Audiotapes > De Mille, A
- Isaacs, Lewis Montefiore, 1877-1944
- Martin, John , 1893-1985
- Humphrey-Weidman Company
- Modern dance > Technique > Graham
- Bennington School of the Dance
- Graham, Georgia
- Note
- Two interviews conducted by Agnes de Mille as part of her research for the biography of Martha Graham entitled Martha.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1619
- OCLC
- NYPY95-R12
- Author
- Hill, Martha. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Martha Hill [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1983-1984.
- Local Subject
- Musical comedies. Greenwich Village follies.Modern dance -- Technique -- Graham.Audiotapes -- De Mille, A.Audiotapes -- Hill, M.
- Added Author
- De Mille, Agnes. InterviewerDe Mille, Agnes. Martha.DHCA.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1619