Martha Hill Research Articles

The Bennington Summer School of the Dance Oral History Project, 1978–1979: A History of Sensibilities

In line with the thinking of Laurence Louppe calling for a reevaluation and problematisation of oral sources within a dance history framework, this paper sets out to examine the extensive archive of the Bennington Summer School of the Dance Oral History Project, conducted between 1978 and 1979 and housed today at Columbia University. By taking as a starting point the dancer's voice at the heart of the educational project conceived by Martha Hill and Mary Jo Shelly, a different dance history of the thirties begins to emerge, bringing to the fore the dancer's evolving experience that constitutes a true Bennington archive, set against the backdrop of the “Big Four” ultimately not part of the project.

Teaching dancing with ideokinetic principles

Foreword by Lynn Martin vii Introduction ix Chapter 1. Beams of Light 1 Appendix: Lexicons of the Body 18 Chapter 2. Relaxation 21 Appendix: Constructive Rest by Lulu E. Sweigard 35 Chapter 3. Baking Biscuits and Kinesthesia 37 Appendix: The Dancer's Posture by Lulu E. Sweigard, with Introduction by Martha Hill 47 Chapter 4. Doctors, Dancing, and Ideokinesis 54 Appendix: Better Dancing through Better Body Balance by Lulu E. Sweigard 69 Chapter 5. Mirror, Mirror ... 73 Appendix: Accentuate the Positive ... 86 Chapter 6. Imagery and Habit 90 Appendix: Walking Bundles of Habit by William James 100 Chapter 7. More about Teaching Dancing 101 Appendix: Letter XI by Jean-Georges Noverre 113 References Cited 119 Author Index 123 Subject Index 125

Women, sport, society: further reflections, reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft

1. Prologue: Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft: Extending the Dialogue on Women, Sport and Physical Activities Roberta J. Park and Patricia Vertinsky 2. From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H'Doubler and Martha Hill Patricia Vertinsky 3. The Physical is Political: Women's Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes, and the Public Sphere Jaime Schultz 4. From Alice Milliat to Marie-Therese Eyquem: Revisiting Women's Sport in France, 1920s-1960s Thierry Terret 5. Eliza Maria Mosher. Pioneering Woman Physician and Advocate for Physical Education Alison M. Wrynn 6. Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1920s-1950s Martha H. Verbrugge 7. Leading the Way in Science, Medicine and Physical Training: Female Physicians in Academia, 1890-1930 Susan G. Zieff 8. Empowering Women Through Sport: Women's Basketball in Brazil and the Significant Role of Maria Helena Cardoso Claudia M. Guedes 9. Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman David Chapman and Gigliola Gori 10. Women as Leaders: What Women Have Attained In and Through the Field of Physical Education Roberta J. Park 11. Epilogue: Retrospectus J.A. Mangan

Structural Evolution of a World-Class Epithermal Orebody: The Martha Hill Deposit, Waihi, New Zealand

We describe the complex structure in the highest (now mined-out) levels of the world-class Martha Hill gold-silver deposit, Coromandel peninsula, which is hosted in late Miocene andesitic rocks. A northeast-striking block of rock 360 m long and up to 100 m wide was occupied by a complex vein network dominated by northeast-striking gold-silver lodes up to 30 m thick. Gold production was entirely from quartz veins. The mineralization is embedded in the following geological history: (1) deposition of the host volcanic rocks, (2) initial tectonic fracturing, (3) intrusion of clastic dikes and sills, (4) start of hydrothermal alteration, (5) main phase of faulting, (6) main phase of veining, (7) erosion and deep oxidation, (8–11) deposition of further volcanic material, including prominent rhyolites, and formation of present topography. Veins occupied fractures but also followed a network of preexisting, mostly normal faults with a small to medium amount of displacement. Faulting involved northwest-southeast, north-south, and east-west extension, implying complex 3-D strain. Clastic dikes of carbonaceous sandstone intruded during the faulting phase. Fault rocks were mostly brittle cataclasites or breccias, but some clay-rich zones displayed ductile structures. Many veins overprinted faults, with a change from shear-mode to opening-mode deformation. Stockwork veins formed a mesh composed of two orthogonal sets: one with northeast-southwest– and northwest-southeast–striking veins, including the dominant mineralized lodes, and the other with north-south– and east-west–striking veins. Although northwest-striking veins were earliest, during the main vein phase, opening oscillated between all the vein directions, with the two main lodes in the open pit area, the Martha and the Welcome, capturing most of the strain. A variety of vein and breccia textures indicate repeated structurally controlled vein opening events that were associated with changes in the physical and chemical conditions of the mineralizing fluid. A special concentration of structural features facilitated focusing of fluid flow to produce this world-class deposit, which contrasts with the less well endowed vein systems around it. The overall tectonic control was dominated by northwest-southeast extension and dip-slip deformation. The 3-D strain in this area was not only due to local interference of differently oriented structural features but also to the superposition of regional tectonic north-northwest and northeast trends associated with migration of a subduction zone past the Coromandel peninsula. This demonstrates that structural control in an epithermal mineral deposit may originate from a number of different tectonic controls at different scales.

From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H'Doubler and Martha Hill

Margaret H'Doubler and Martha Hill were American physical educators who played pioneering roles in the debate over the place of modern dance in higher education. In establishing the first university degree programme in dance education in the women's physical education department at the University of Wisconsin in 1927, H'Doubler has been credited with challenging the way Americans thought not only about dance and female physicality but also higher education for women. Rivalling the reach and influence of H'Doubler in the promotion of dance education in higher education, however, was Martha Hill, a former student of H'Doubler. In a markedly different approach to the teaching of dance, Hill and her modern dance colleagues at Bennington College reoriented the nature of college dance during the 1930s towards a vocational and professional model, reshaping dance as an arts-based discipline. In my discussion I examine the relative contributions of H'Doubler (who was not a dancer) and Hill (who was a dance performer) to these opposing developments in dance education in the academy during the first half of the twentieth century; trace the rise and fall of dance's importance within women's physical education programmes; and discuss the equivocal nature of H'Doubler and Hill's legacies to feminism and the gendering of the body.

Martha Hill and the making of American dance

Martha Hill and the making of American dance

Martha Hill: Supporting the Creative Work of José Limón

Founding director of the dance programs at New York University, Bennington College, and Juilliard, as well as the summer dance festivals the Bennington School of the Dance and Connecticut College School of the Dance/American Dance Festival, Martha Hill was a visionary for dance and dance education. One of the teachers and choreographers to whom Hill gave her loyal support was José Limón, providing him with means and opportunities to voice his unique vision.

José Limón: Mentor to Native Youth

This paper presents a description of the work of José Limón with American Indian students at Flandreau Indian School in 1970. This historic event grew out of the collaboration of Juilliard's Martha Hill with Mrs. Stewart (Lee) Udall and her organization the Center for Arts of Indian America, which was dedicated to enabling native youth to enter the fields of dance and theater.

Lithological and spatial controls on the distribution of quartz veins in andesite- and rhyolite-hosted epithermal Au-Ag deposits of the Hauraki Goldfield, New Zealand

Vein distributions in line samples from four epithermal Au–Ag deposits of the Hauraki Goldfield were logged and quantified by vein spacing, vein density, vein thickness and percentage of vein extension. One deposit is hosted in andesite lavas (Martha Hill), one in andesite lavas and dacite porphyry, dacitic tuffs and pyroclastic breccias (Golden Cross), and two in rhyolite lavas and rhyolitic tuffs with minor andesite lavas or andesite dikes (Ohui and Wharekirauponga). The vein systems in these deposits form fault-controlled arrays of extensional veins. Vein spacing distributions are non-fractal over two to three orders of magnitude (1 mm to 5 m), and therefore fractal dimension statistics are not applicable. The coefficient of variation (Cv) of vein spacing was used as a measure of the degree of vein clustering. Rock type has a marked influence on vein spacing distributions, with veining in rhyolite lava having lower average thickness and percentage extension, but a generally higher degree of vein clustering compared with veining in andesite lava in the same deposit. Vein spacing distributions in well-jointed lithologies, mainly andesite lava, have Cv values (0.8–1.2) that are indicative of anticlustered to weakly clustered patterns, particularly in the vein stockwork of the upper part of the Golden Cross deposit. These Cv values are consistent with field observations that joints are a major control on vein spacing. In the poorly jointed dacitic and rhyolitic rocks, the veins are weakly to strongly clustered as shown by higher Cv values (1.2–2.4), and are commonly associated with normal faults. Overall, andesite lava and dacite porphyry and pyroclastics host thicker and more persistent veins than rhyolite lava and tuff. These larger veins contain significant volumes of high-grade gold mineralisation. The higher chemical reactivity to hydrothermal fluids of andesite and dacite compared with rhyolite may have aided propagation and thickening of the veins in andesite-hosted deposits. Within an individual epithermal deposit, location close to thick veins, representing major fluid conduits, commonly overrides the effect of different lithologies. Sites that are deeper and located within or adjacent to major vein structures have higher average vein thickness, percentage extension and degree of vein clustering. Systematic collection and analysis of vein spacing, thickness and density data can be used to define trends that are useful in the exploration of gold-bearing epithermal vein deposits.

Cerebrovascular disease in African Americans.

It was an honor to be selected as the first lecturer for the American Heart Association (AHA) Presidential Symposium in conjunction with the 23rd International Joint Conference on Stroke and Cerebral Circulation. I wish to thank Dr Martha Hill, the AHA President, for the invitation to participate. Dr Hill has had a longstanding interest in cardiovascular health issues in the African American community. I also wish to thank Drs Edward Cooper and Jacqueline Washington, who served as panel discussants for the symposium. Since 1981, I have been carrying out epidemiological studies of stroke in African Americans. The studies have included both observational ones and clinical trials. At the present time, we are completing a secondary stroke prevention trial: the African American Antiplatelet Stroke Prevention Study (AAASPS). I now provide an overview of cerebrovascular disease in African Americans. I begin my discussion with a brief review of the constructs race and ethnicity. Williams has critically examined the scientific consensus on the conceptualization of race.1 The United States government recognizes four racial groups—white, black, Asian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaskan Native—and one ethnic category, Hispanic. The distinction between race and ethnicity may be obscured, however, as some Hispanics may prefer to refer to themselves as a racial category.1 In the social science literature, the early definitions of race used the term to capture “physical” or “biological” characteristics that differentiated human populations. The term was then extended to encompass biological and social interaction. More recent definitions of race have discredited the early definition that included physical or biological characteristics because in general, phenotypic characteristics do not correlate well with biochemical or other genetic characteristics, and there may be more genetic variation …

Poverty, Work, & Social PolicyYears of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families. By Greg J. Duncan , Richard Coe , Mary Corcoran , Martha Hill , Saul Hoffman , and James Morgan The New American Poverty. By Michael Harrington Beyond the Safety Net: Reviving the Promise of Opportunity in America. By Sar Levitan

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Helping The Hypertensive Patient Control Sodium Intake

MARTHA HILL, R.N., M.S.N., is a nurse specialist in hypertension at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She is currently funded by the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania as a nurse consultant to increase community awareness of the need for high blood pressure control.

Evaluation of treatment response: Effects of patient compliance and treatment: Martha Hill, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 34th & Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, PA, 19143; W. Herbert Springall, Bryan Dowd, Michael Reichgott

Evaluation of treatment response: Effects of patient compliance and treatment: Martha Hill, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 34th & Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, PA, 19143; W. Herbert Springall, Bryan Dowd, Michael Reichgott

Community action on hypertension: W. H. Springall, Jr., Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, 530 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106; Martha Hill, Bryan Dowd

Community action on hypertension: W. H. Springall, Jr., Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, 530 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106; Martha Hill, Bryan Dowd

Subarea health planning focuses on hypertension: W. H. Springall, Jr., Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, 530 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106; Martha Hill, Bryan Dowd

Subarea health planning focuses on hypertension: W. H. Springall, Jr., Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, 530 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106; Martha Hill, Bryan Dowd

Excursion to Chilworth and St. Martha's Hill: Saturday, May 20th, 1911

Excursion to Chilworth and St. Martha's Hill: Saturday, May 20th, 1911

Excursion of the Geologists' Association to Guildford and Chilworth, June 1

Excursion of the Geologists' Association to Guildford and Chilworth, June 1