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Interviews with Martha Hill

Title
Interviews with Martha Hill / interviewers, Carl Wolz, Janice Meaden and Muriel Topaz.
Publication
1989-1990.
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Additional Authors
  • Hill, Martha, 1900-1995
  • Wolz, Carl
  • Meaden, Janice
  • Topaz, Muriel
Description
1 streaming video file (130 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
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].
Alternative Title
M. Hill: Hong Kong
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Filmed dance.
  • Filmed performances.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Title from opening video credits.
  • 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 (50 min.) / interviewer, Carl Wolz -- Second interview (43 min.) / interviewer, Janice Meaden -- Third interview (36 min.) / interviewer, Muriel Topaz.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6982
OCLC
879212399
Title
Interviews with Martha Hill / interviewers, Carl Wolz, Janice Meaden and Muriel Topaz.
Production
1989-1990.
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 interviews at Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Hong Kong 1989 July 13 & 1990 July 26.
Source
Gift; Janet Soares; 2010.
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Added Author
Hill, Martha, 1900-1995, interviewee.
Wolz, Carl, interviewer.
Meaden, Janice, interviewer.
Topaz, Muriel, interviewer.
Soares, Janet Mansfield, donor.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6982
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