Margaret H’Doubler: The Legacy of America's Dance Education Pioneer
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From an article by Violet Dewey, Milwaukee Journal, 1964:

“Dance to Margaret H’Doubler, pioneer in modern dance education and professor emeritus of the university of Wisconsin, is an art, a science, and a philosophy that extends its insights into all phases of living. It is a creative experience available to everyone as the only instrument needed is one’s body…Because this is a newspaper and not an encyclopedia, it is impossible to incorporate many of Miss H’Doubler’s provocative discoveries about dance. But here are a few:

Beautiful movement is not dance. You can have beautiful movement in swimming and in basketball. Dance is not poetry. Words are better for poetry. But the meaning of a poem, its quality, can be expressed in dance.

A dozen dancers may express the same idea in a dozen ways. They’d all be right. But they all must speak in the vocabulary of movement—in flexion and extension, in rotation and circumduction and many combinations.

As we gain self-knowledge and dignity through dance, so will discovery of self carry over into other parts of living. Many a husband has been grateful for the philosophy brought into married life through knowledge of dance.”

From a letter written in 1965 by a high school physical education supervisor, Iris Boulton, New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois.

“Miss H’Doubler is assuredly the creator and great motivator of dance in education as we know it in the United States today. Her influence has been nation wide. Most of the fine programs in the colleges and universities and public schools can be traced directly or indirectly to this remarkable teacher or her pupils. Perhaps the greatest tribute to Miss H’Doubler is voiced by her students, our teachers, who say, ‘she taught me how to live.’“