Research Catalog

Title

Martha Hill and Ann Hutchinson Guest [videorecording]

Publication

October 19, 1990.

Details

Additional Authors

• Guest, Ann Hutchinson
• Hill, Martha.
• Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Description

• 1 streaming video file (34 min., 22 sec.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
• 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (34 min.) : sd., col. ;

Subject

• Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979
• Otte-Betz, Irma
• Bartenieff, Irmgard
• Martin, John , 1893-1985
• Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.)
• Juilliard School. Dance Division
• Dance notation

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Oral history interview of Ann Hutchinson Guest, conducted by Martha Hill at the Dance Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on October 19, 1990. Part of a series of interviews begun by Hill at the Hong Kong International Dance Conference, held at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in July 1990.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Contents

SUMMARY: Ann Hutchinson Guest, dancer, notator, and teacher, recalls her early training in dance and notation at Dartington Hall in England, where she notated The green table and other ballets at the request of Kurt Jooss. She and Martha Hill discuss the introduction of Labanotation to the U.S. by Irma Otte-Betz and Irmgard Bartenieff, and the foundation of the Dance Notation Bureau by Guest, Eve Gentry, Janey Price, and Helen Priest, at the instigation of John Martin. Guest looks back over her career in the U.S., which included performing in Broadway musicals; teaching at the Juilliard School; notating the choreography of Doris Humphrey, George Balanchine, and others; and writing the textbook Labanotation. Since returning to England upon her marriage to dance historian Ivor Guest, she has developed an approach to movement analysis called Language of dance, which is of particular value in teaching young children basic principles of movement.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 9070

OCLC

NYPY916030430-F

Title

Martha Hill and Ann Hutchinson Guest [videorecording]

Imprint

October 19, 1990.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2597.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Labanotation.

Movement analysis.

Television. Martha Hill and Ann Hutchinson Guest.

Added Author

Guest, Ann Hutchinson, interviewee.

Hill, Martha. Interviewee

Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 9070