Research Catalog
Interviews with Martha Hill
- Title
- Interviews with Martha Hill / interviewers, Carl Wolz, Janice Meaden and Muriel Topaz.
- Publication
- 1989-1990.
- Supplementary Content
- Connect to this title online (onsite at Library for the Performing Arts only)
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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
- Subject
- 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
- computervideo
- 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.
- Connect to:
- 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