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Interview with Martha Hill

Title
Interview with Martha Hill / interviewer, Tom Brown.
Publication
1990.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Hill, Martha, 1900-1995
  • Brown, Thomas
Description
1 streaming video file (95 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
M. Hill with Tom Brown
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Filmed dance.
  • Filmed performances.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Title from opening video credits; additional title from original VHS cassette label.
  • Property of Janet Soares, Barnard Dance Department.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Source (note)
  • Janet Soares;
Contents
First interview (56 min.) -- Second interview (24 min.) -- Third interview (12 min.).
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6983
OCLC
879210850
Title
Interview with Martha Hill / interviewer, Tom Brown.
Production
1990.
Country of Producing Entity
China.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
video
Type of Carrier
online resource
Original Version
Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event
Videotaped during interview at Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Hong Kong 1990 July 4 & 5.
Source
Gift; Janet Soares; 2010.
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Added Author
Hill, Martha, 1900-1995, interviewee.
Brown, Thomas, interviewer.
Soares, Janis Mansfield, donor.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6983
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