Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance (eBook)

amp;lt;P>JANET MANSFIELD SOARES, author of Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World (1992), was a student, colleague, and teacher of dance composition with Martha Hill at the Juilliard School. She is a professor emerita of dance at Barnard College, Columbia University, and lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Lyme, Connecticut.</P>

<P>List of Illustrations<BR>Preface and Acknowledgments<BR>BIBLE BELT TO ACADEME<BR>Growing Up in Ohio, 1900-1922<BR>Forging a Career, 1923-1928<BR>NEW DANCE<BR>Dancing with Graham, 1929-1931<BR>Bennington, 1932-1933<BR>A Summer School for Dance, 1934<BR>PRIVATE LIVES AND COMMON GOALS<BR>Panorama, 1935<BR>Winter, 1936<BR>Summer, 1936<BR>THE LATE THIRTIES<BR>Immediate Tragedy, 1937<BR>Culmination of a Plan, 1938<BR>California and Back, 1939-1940<BR>THE FORTIES<BR>"The War Effort Hit Us All," 1941-1942<BR>War Years and Recovery, 1943-1947<BR>An American Dance Festival, 1948<BR>Changes, 1949-1950<BR>DANCE WITHIN THE CONSERVATORY<BR>Juilliard, 1951-1952 <BR>Marriage, 1952-1955<BR>Plans for Lincoln Square, 1955-1956<BR>BETWEEN TWO WORLDS<BR>Time Away, 1958<BR>Brussels Respite, 1959<BR>THE SIXTIES<BR>Students and Master Teachers, 1960-1961<BR>Standing Firm, 1962-1965<BR>Contrasts and Conflicts, 1965-1968<BR>"Good Guys vs. Bad Guys," 1968-1969<BR>A PLACE FOR DANCE<BR>Juilliard at Lincoln Center, 1970-1972<BR>An Even Keel, 1973-1978<BR>Matriarch, 1979-1984<BR>Last Years, 1985-1994<BR>Epilogue<BR>Appendix: Works Produced during Martha Hill's Tenure as Director at Bennington, Connecticut College/ADF, and Juilliard<BR>Abbreviations<BR>Notes<BR>Selected Bibliography<BR>Index</P>