二十世纪美国高等舞蹈教育家玛莎·希尔在“舞蹈是一种创造性表演艺术”的理念指导下，以强劲的革新力为美国高等舞蹈教育的“重塑”提供了更多的可能。她有效地建立起现代舞与美国高等舞蹈教育之间的关联，并在此基础上，开始推进重塑美国高等舞蹈教育的步伐。自创建之初以来，美国高等舞蹈教育长期依附在体育学科之下，几乎难以谈及专业化的学科地位，然而，正是由于玛莎·希尔的出现和她身体力行的教育实践，引领着美国高等舞蹈教育向专业化方向的发展，提升并丰富了高等舞蹈教育的专业化水平和艺术化形式，使其最终成为美国舞蹈教育培养高端专业人才与学科理论建设的学理支撑。对玛莎·希尔的教育经历进行梳理不难发现，她在纽约大学、本宁顿学院、朱利亚德学院这三个时期的教学及实践经历，既有系统性和沿承性，也有一定差异性；她依据学科发展的阶段性特点和所处时代及学校教学方针的侧重，依次以“渗透式”、“全盘式”、“集中式”这三种方式，逐步推动了舞蹈教育的专业化发展，从而奠定了她在美国高等舞蹈教育发展史上的重要地位。本文基于这一立场，从玛莎·希尔的具体教学实践行为出发，总结和梳理她的教育理念，并以此厘清她对美国高等舞蹈教育“重塑”的作用及贡献。 　　　鉴于上述研究对象与研究方向，本文的具体论述主要围绕五个方面的内容进行：第一章以美国高等舞蹈教育的重塑为研究主体，关注重塑发生的必然性与偶然性，并分析和探查玛莎·希尔自身的教育、教学及舞者经历对“重塑”发生的关联意义；第二、三、四章分别从纽约大学时期、本宁顿学院时期和朱利亚德学院这三大时期入手，研究和讨论玛莎·希践行其教育理念的实践尔过程及其方式；第五章则侧重于梳理玛莎·希尔对重塑美国高等舞蹈教育的贡献，说明她在以“进步主义教育”的理念支撑下，努力建立现代舞与高等舞蹈教育的专业化教育思维与模式，并在此基础上，论述玛莎·希尔在加速现代舞这一“新兴舞蹈”艺术形式以高等教育为生发土壤的教育思路和学科立场。玛莎·希尔的这一系列理念和实践不仅为当时的美国高等舞蹈教育注入了活力，也奠定随后美国高等舞蹈教育以现代舞为主体的学科框架，丰富了舞蹈的艺术化发展，本文通过对上述内容的探究，力图说明玛莎·希尔在重塑美国高等舞蹈教育专业化发展中的独特价值，并希冀为未来的延伸研究，如中国高等舞蹈教育的专业化发展等问题提供参照和借鉴思考。

This thesis is concerned with Martha Hill, a pioneer during the development of the American higher dance education in the twentieth century. With her long-term view, modern dance and higher dance education established a strong relationship. She insisted that “dance is an art”. Under her efforts, dance obtained its own independent status as an artistic discipline. Reshaping the development of the American Higher Dance Education was based on sports in the early days. By using professional standards, which made higher dance education gradually move towards the direction of artistic development, Hill finally established the goals of dance professional development as the founding director of the Dance Departments at New York University, Bennington College and The Juilliard School. It can be concluded that Martha Hill played an important role in the development of higher dance education in the United States. According to the characteristics of various periods, namely the "penetration", "comprehensive "and"centralized" periods, Hill took American higher dance education towards specialization and a variety of art forms.　　　　　　This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is an overview of the history of dance in higher education in the United States and the education, teaching and dancing experience of Martha Hill as she pushed to reshape the process. The second, third and fourth chapter analyzes the development of the dance program at New York University, Bennington College and Juilliard school, respectively. The fifth chapter makes a conclusion of her legacy. Here I establish an effective connection between modern dance and higher dance education. On the one hand, the ideas and methods of modern dance inject vigor to higher dance education; On the other hand, higher dance education provides a hotbed of communication and transmission for the development of modern dance. It strengthened the development of modern dance in the United States and established higher dance education in the United States based on the characteristics of modern dance as well. .In conclusion, I illustrate that Martha Hill played a leading role in the development of higher dance education in the United States and I hope that this will provide references for the future research, such as the professional development of China's Higher Dance Education.