dance, she wrote Manual of Dancing: Suggestions and Bibliography for the Teacher of Dancing in 1921. Her fourth book, Dance: A Creative Art Experience was published in 1940. In it she explains her theory of dance pedagogy about the expression of one's own thoughts and feelings through dance. She states that the technique is "training the mind to use the body as an expressive instrument". H'Doubler highlights the teacher's ability to inspire confidence in students so they will not be afraid of what they will reveal when expressing their own feelings through dance. In this book she includes her principles of composition: Climax, Transition, Balance, Sequence, Repetition, Harmony, Variety and Contrast. In 1918 H'Doubler founded a group of dancers called Orchesis, which is Greek for expressive gesture. The University of Wisconsin opened Lathrop Hall in 1921, which was a studio devoted to dance. This was also the first university to develop dance courses. In 1926, she collaborated with Dean Sellery and the faculty of the School of Education to develop the first curriculum establishing dance as a major. Her approach to dance education was to "enable each individual to live as fully as possible" and believed the "educational process must be based upon scientific facts concerning the nature of human life". In her thinking and teaching, she advocated focusing on kinesthetic awareness in terms of three phases: (1.) feedback, which she describes as bringing information from the muscles, joints, and tendons; (2.) associative, which takes place exclusively in the brain; and (3.) feed-forward, the process of sending messages back to the muscles. Legacy H'Doubler retired from the university in 1954. She continued to be a guest speaker and teach master classes until her death in 1982. In 1963 she was a Heritage Award recipient of the National Dance Association. After receiving a $4 million donation in 1998, the University of Wisconsin-Madison renovated Lathrop Hall and with a new theatre named the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space. Other H'Doubler's grand niece and namesake is the screenwriter Margaret Nagle. References Further reading Cox, Patti Nestor. The Development of Modern Dance in Higher Education with an Emphasis on the Contributions and Influences of Margaret H'Doubler. Master's thesis, San Jose State University, 1977. Gray, Judith Anne. To Want to Dance: A Biography of Margaret H'Doubler. Doctoral thesis, University of Arizona, 1978. Hartman, Chris. Margaret H'Doubler and the Wisconsin Dance Idea. Madison: UW-Madison Libraries, Archives and