MISS HILL: MAKING DANCE MATTER
GREG VANDER VEER, 2014
USA | 80 MINUTES
Opening Night! World Premiere!
The film will be followed by a panel discussion with director Greg Vander Veer, producer Vernon Scott, former NYC Ballet principal Heather Watts, former ABT principal and founder of Ballet San Jose Dennis Nahat, Martha Hill biographer Janet Mansfield Soares, and choreographer/educator Daniel Lewis.
The screening will be followed by a reception in the Furman Gallery, open to all ticket holders!
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman whose life was defined by her love for dance. Martha Hill emerges as dance’s secret weapon, someone who fought against great odds to establish dance as a legitimate art form in America. Through archival footage, lively interviews with friends and intimates, and rare footage of the spirited subject, the film explores Hills’s arduous path from a Bible Belt childhood in Ohio to the halls of academe at NYU and Bennington College to a position of power and influence as Juilliard’s founding director of dance (1952-1985). Peppered with anecdotal material delivered by dance notables who knew her, this revelatory story depicts her struggles and successes, including the battle royal that accompanied her move to the Lincoln Center campus. (Photo by Thomas Bouchard.)
Screening with:
Homegoings: A Dance. Christine Turner, USA, 2013; 5m
Inspired by the award-winning documentary
Homegoings, this original dance piece finds meaning and beauty in the life cycle.