#dance marathon

[newyorkthegoldenage]

May 9, 1932: Exhausted contestants try to keep moving, at least a little, during a grueling dance marathon that began March 31—more than 900 hours earlier—at the Fordham Palace, 2505 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.

Photo: NY Daily News via Getty Images

[kimberly-stocks]

I have so many pictures of Jess Mariano saved on my phone it's embarrassing. Also, I think he looked the most beautiful in this dance marathon episode, especially when Dean starts to yell at Rory, and Jess looks up all alert and hopeful 😍

[victusinveritas]

Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930.

[arewedoneyet]

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[yourdadsbasement]

those freaks love this shit, they cannot get enough of it

ooo i do like emo hair martin

lmaoooooo yessssssss the kiddies of the 2010s will absolutely get that Alfred E. Neuman reference (rip MAD magazine)

martin ilu but you are the Picasso of failure

“i’m a bear, and i’m a daddy. i’m a beardaddy.” (also this image has an incredible beatific energy, it looks like the Rose Window)

we’ve got better animation and about 10% more conspicuous Spanish

this is what he does when he doesn’t have his favorite paddle

[dearabsolutelynoone]

The OG Barbie Films are Pretty and Dreamy...

Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) dir. Owen Hurley

Barbie as Rapunzel (2002) dir. Owen Hurley

Barbie of Swan Lake (2003) dir. Owen Hurley

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (2005) dir. Greg Richardson

Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006) dir. Greg Richardson, Terry Klassen

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Stu: ANGELICAAAA ELIZAAA

Billy, grumpy:

Stu, puppy eyes:

Billy, sighing: AND PEGGY!

They two of them together: THE SCHUYLER SISTERSSSSS

[dance-world]

Nick Dill - photo by Andrew Graham

[soup-scope]

i think as a community we deserve a freelancer and gavin anniversary audio

[the-sky-queen]

SEGA SCOURGE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Tony Merlino and Anna Bertoni, marathon dancers, 1932, Albany.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Competitors in a dance marathon at Madison Square Garden, June 11, 1928. Victor Tomie carries his partner, Della Keenes's shoes while she dances shoeless.

The formal idea of a dance marathon emerged in the early 1920s, after a New York dance instructor named Alma Cummings decided to see if she could achieve the world record for longest continuous dance. According to a report in the News-Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Cummings started just before seven o’clock in the evening on March 31, 1923, and danced the waltz, foxtrot, and one-step for twenty-seven hours straight, fueled by snacks of fruit, nuts, and near-beer, and exhausting six male partners in the process. Her achievement inspired copycats and competitors, and before long, promoters started offering group dance marathons that hybridized sports, social dancing, vaudeville, and nightlife as a form of rivalry and entertainment.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America Text: Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR.org

[lovealwayssay]

Season 3 of Gilmore Girls might be the best season of Gilmore Girls.

[spacedace]

Thinking about that time my one middle school teacher took my class outside and had us act out crash landing on a deserted island.

Like, we got separated out into groups, had to draw the injuries we got from the "crash" out of a hat, and then each group given a random assortment of gauze and bandaids and told us that we could only use whatever we had on us to try to save the critically injured & survive.

Then she just sat to the side and watched us all stumble through this wild exercise for the rest of class period, called us all together, told us we all were very stupid about how we handled everything and that we died, brought us back inside and never brought it up again.

Same teacher had us read like four different books about children having to survive the wilderness on their own the next year. Never brought up the weird fake survival thing we did the year before. I'm low key wondering if she was just weirdly into that show Lost or something 🤔

[arewedoneyet]

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[yourdadsbasement]

i KNEW their asses did not check before they JUMPED OUT OF A PLANE (or a flying turtle ship, whatever)

oh yeah i know this white people dance

we're really not expecting enough from human men

sounds like the guys need to do some reading on feminism and the division of household labor

omg i finally figured out who he reminds me of it's Lurky in Rainbow Brite going "i wanna ride the pretty horsie!"

idk donita you didn't see her trying to design the crew jackets

do they know who Cris Angel is?

honestly it's making me hungry for a lox and cream cheese bagel