A Recollection of Margaret H'Doubler's Class Procedure
An Environment for the Learning of Dance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11223562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen A Moore (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12-17 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1478781 |
| OpenAlex | W1966279983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In 1917 Margaret H'Doubler, on a year's leave from the University of Wisconsin, had been given a difficult assignment. Blanche Trilling, her chairman, had asked if she would search the dance studios in New York City for a kind of dance activity “worth a college woman's time.” Studying philosophy that year at Columbia University, Margaret H'Doubler had complied with pronounced lack of enthusiasm, her predominant interest being in teaching basketball. Her time nearly expired, she found herself, however, suddenly excited when, at the music school of Alys Bentley, she saw children on the floor moving in their own ways to a stimulus provided by the teacher. “Of course,” she recounted later, “Get on the floor where you are relieved from the pull of gravity ... and see what the natural, structural movements are.” She continued to visit Miss Bentley's studio during the short time that remained and began to organize a course in “new dancing” to be offered almost immediately in summer school in Madison
Art · Class (philosophy) · Cognitive psychology · Dance · Mathematics education · Recall · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2022 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |