Research Catalog

Interview with Martha Hill

Title
  1. Interview with Martha Hill / interviewer, Tom Brown.
Published by
  1. 1990.

Available online

Details

Additional authors
  1. Hill, Martha, 1900-1995
  2. Brown, Thomas
Description
  1. 1 streaming video file (95 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. M. Hill with Tom Brown
Subject
  1. Hill, Martha, 1900-1995
  2. Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
  3. Wolz, Carl
  4. Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
  5. Bennington College
  6. Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
  7. Day on earth (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
  8. Dance teachers > United States
  9. Modern dance > United States
  10. Dance > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
  3. Filmed dance.
  4. Filmed performances.
  5. Interviews.
  6. Nonfiction films.
Contents
  1. First interview (56 min.) -- Second interview (24 min.) -- Third interview (12 min.).
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-6983
Note
  1. Title from opening video credits; additional title from original VHS cassette label.
  2. Property of Janet Soares, Barnard Dance Department.
Access (note)
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Source (note)
  1. Janet Soares;
Title
  1. Interview with Martha Hill / interviewer, Tom Brown.
Production
  1. 1990.
Country of producing entity
  1. China.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. computer
  2. video
Type of carrier
  1. online resource
Original version
  1. Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
Restricted access
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event
  1. Videotaped during interview at Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Hong Kong 1990 July 4 & 5.
Source
  1. Gift; Janet Soares; 2010.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Hill, Martha, 1900-1995, interviewee.
  2. Brown, Thomas, interviewer.
  3. Soares, Janis Mansfield, donor.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-6983
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