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Janet Mansfield Soares Video Archive

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Interview with Martha Hill

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Title
Interview with Martha Hill
Additional title: M. Hill with Tom Brown
Names
Hill, Martha, 1900-1995 (Interviewee)
Brown, Thomas (British colorman, active 1844-1845) (Interviewer)
Collection

Janet Mansfield Soares Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1990-07-04
Date Captured: 1990-07-05
Table of Contents
First interview (56 min.) -- Second interview (24 min.) -- Third interview (12 min.).
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-6983
Topics
Hill, Martha, 1900-1995 -- Interviews
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
Wolz, Carl
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Bennington College
Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Shakers (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Day on earth (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
Dance teachers -- United States
Modern dance -- United States
Dance -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Genres
Interviews
Notes
Content: Title from opening video credits; additional title from original VHS cassette label.
Creation/production credits: Property of Janet Soares, Barnard Dance Department.
Venue: Videotaped during interview at Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Hong Kong 1990 July 4 & 5.
Acquisition: Gift; Janet Soares; 2010.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
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.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20196824
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7eebd760-e84c-0131-1c74-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1900: Creator Born
  • 1990: Created (Approximate)
  • 1995: Creator Died
  • 2025: Found by you!
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Martha Hill" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1990 - 1990. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/807fc590-e84c-0131-96db-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Martha Hill" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/807fc590-e84c-0131-96db-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1990 - 1990). Interview with Martha Hill Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/807fc590-e84c-0131-96db-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

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Interview with Martha Hill