The Contributions of Martha Hill to American Dance and Dance Education

"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of modern dance in the United States and how dance programs developed in U.S. colleges and universities.  Thank you,  Elizabeth."

-- JoAnne Tucker, Mostly Dance Blog (2019)

"Any educator interested in the history of modern dance will find plenty in this biography to shed light on the challenges, both within and outside dance circles, in creating a new art form."

-- Glenna Batson, The Journal of Dance Education (2011)

"By including statements from four of her Julliard students, Mc Pherson leads us to see Martha Hill as a helmsman who steered her students with warmth and with real concern for their welfare, but with her vision of what should be.... We come to know the complexities and the universality of her intellect and her aesthetic. Above all, we may come to appreciate the scope of dance in the twentieth century, which Martha Hill brought together. 

-- Ruth Garuert, The Bearnstow Journal, 2008

[T]his is a book every dance educator interested in the history of dance in higher education should read. It is an engaging volume about an engaging and rather delightful person of the old school – tough, yet ‘dear,’ (she used the term consistently), familiar, yet Olympian, one of the grand ladies of dance who, like Miss H’Doubler and Miss Hawkins, transformed our field and upon whose shoulders those of us who currently teach dance in the academy, stand.

--Thomas Hagood, Research in Dance Education, 2008