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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'. Nobody's Baby Dance Marathon is the working title. The piece is now officially called The World's Greatest Show

Creatives/Company

Choreographer: Arthur Pita
Music: Frank Moon