Research Catalog

Title

Martha Hill interview [videorecording] / [interviewed by] Catherine [Tatge].

Publication

1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hill, Martha, 1900-1995.
• Tatge, Catherine.

Description

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Martha Hill discusses Martha Graham, beginning with Martha Graham's lost solo that opened many concerts; how she heard about and met Graham; Lincoln Kirsteins generousity when Hill started Bennington School of the Dance; why and how she started Bennington School; the first summer dance program with teachers including Martha Graham, Doris Humphery, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holm; creating Panorama with Graham; her first impression of Erick Hawkins joining the Martha Graham Dance Company and Hawkins being at Bennington to perform American document; why not many men were dancing at that time; Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins falling in love; how Graham's work changed when Hawkins began dancing in the company; description of Graham's Primative mysteries; how Graham worked with dancers when creating works; performing on stage with Graham; Lydia Lopokova visiting Bennington College and meeting Graham; working with Louis Horst; how Graham gave up dancing and how difficult it was for her; patrons who helped Graham throughout her career; Miss Ruth's influence on Graham; how Graham developed her technique and movement; Graham sitting with Horst when he was in the hospital; Hills strongest personal memory of Graham and Graham's greatest contribution.

Subjects

• Graham, Martha
• Nonfiction films
• Interviews
• Graham, Martha > Primitive mysteries
• Graham, Martha > American document
• Hawkins, Erick
• Horst, Louis
• Bennington College
• Hill, Martha, 1900-1995
• Video
• Ballet Caravan, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
• St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
• Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981
• Bennington School of the Dance
• Dance

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Video.
• Dance.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• Raw footage with time code across bottom of screen.
• Interview begins and ends abruptly; four pauses while videotape is changed.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Janet Mansfield Soares;

Biography (note)

• Interview taken for possible use in the Martha Graham documentary entitled, Martha Graham: the dancer revealed, 1994.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6193

OCLC

747615593

Title

Martha Hill interview [videorecording] / [interviewed by] Catherine [Tatge].

Imprint

1993.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Original Version

Original format: 1 VHS cassette ; 1/2 in.

Performer

Interviewer, Catherine [Tatge] ; interviewee, Martha Hill.

Biography

Interview taken for possible use in the Martha Graham documentary entitled, Martha Graham: the dancer revealed, 1994.

Source

Gift; Janet Mansfield Soares; June 2010. NN-PD

Added Author

Hill, Martha, 1900-1995. Interviewee

Tatge, Catherine. Interviewer

Soares, Janet Mansfield. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6193