Nobody's Baby Dance Marathon

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Arthur Pita's new work Nobody's Baby is inspired by a compelling and disturbing phenomenon seen in 1930s America. Dance marathons were astonishing human endurance contests in which couples danced almost non-stop for hundreds of hours competing for prize money. The longest recorded marathon lasted for 3,780 hours. A live jazz band plays music by Frank Moon (The Metamorphosis) in a transformed Paul Hamlyn Hall. Arthur Pita paints a dark, dreamlike picture of these desperate - and enormously popular - 'entertainments'.

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Archive :: dance or ballet:S0606776663, venue:V354

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Production details

Part of Greenwich Dances