In the bleak years of the Great Depression, when dreams were cheap and bread wasn’t, America found its strangest form of escape—dance marathons. What began as lighthearted endurance contests turned ...

Bloomington was home to several competitive marathon dancers, including out-of-work 19-year-old Charles Roberts, who in the fall of 1930 surpassed 1,000 hours at a Peoria competition dancing with ...

POPULAR DANCE HALL: This is what the Blue Moon Dance Hall on East Barre Road looked like in the late 1930s and early 1940s, before two local residents decided to buy it, cut it in half and make two ...

A unique phenomenon that popped up in the 1920s and ’30s were the dance marathons. Couples ate and dozed as they shuffled around the dance floor for days on end in an effort to win cash prizes. Corpus ...

She was known as the Queen of Swing, a dancer who helped make famous the lindy hop, a fast-paced, acrobatic dance popular during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. Suggested Reading Why Trump’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Martha Graham's powerful solos from the 1930s to be performed at The Met on ...

Step, step, triple-step, swing out, quick stop. Shimmy wiggle jump down no jive -- swing time. More than 400 Lindy Hoppers from around the world partnered up and boogied down in Seattle this weekend ...