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elemental truth—‘I tell you this because I was there.’ The stories of those who had real and ongoing contact with Margaret H’Doubler shade, color and illuminate history and help bring to those of us who were not there a sense of presence and place with real people in time. The words and writings of Miss H’Doubler herself ground each story in the substance of what it was that so fully captured the basketball coach who literally cried when she was told it would be her charge to teach dance “worthy of a college woman’s time.”
Six Chapters are Included in this Section of our Anthology
In Chapter One, “H’Doubler on H’Doubler,” we hear Margaret H’Doubler tell her own story. In an account of events of her life, and her years of discovery, Margaret H’Doubler tells students of the University of Wisconsin; “What happened to me.”
In Chapter Two, Hermine Sauthoff Davidson talks about “The Early Years.” Hermine attended the Wisconsin dance program from 1928–1932. She grew up in Madison and included the young H’Doubler in family activities. Hermine had a long acquaintance with Miss H’Doubler and her remembrances are mature, unique, broadly based, and provide a wonderful word portrait of her experiences with H’Doubler and the other giants of dance art and dance education in twentieth century America: Martha Hill and Martha Graham. In one full interview, and in excerpts from a second, Hermine talks about the scope of H’Doubler’s career. To illustrate the scope of subject matter attended to by H’Doubler, Hermine’s interviews conclude with an article by H’Doubler titled “Rhythmic Approach to the Creation of a Movement.” Here, H’Doubler discusses attending to the rhythm of movement as, “sensed orderliness.”
Chapter Three includes excerpts from a 1994 interview, and the full text of a longer 2002 interview with Elizabeth “Betty” Hayes. Betty had a special personal and professional relationship with H’Doubler. She completed graduate work at Wisconsin, traveled to Europe with “Marge,” and came back to teach at Wisconsin on a number of occasions.