@helen_christie: Dance marathons were one of the darkest forms of entertainment during the Great Depression. 🫣💃🏻 Held across the USA throughout the 1920s and 30s, couples would dance almost nonstop weeks or months. In 1933, Callum DeVillier and Vonny Kuchinski won a marathon in Massachusetts after dancing for FIVE MONTHS STRAIGHT (3,780 hours).... taking home a $1,000 prize (roughly $24,000 today). 😱💰 Contestants were often unemployed and desperate, entering for the cash, free meals and somewhere to stay. Audiences paid 25 cents to watch exhausted dancers hallucinate, collapse, and mentally break down from extreme sleep deprivation (as contestants only slept in rare 15 minute windows in the beds shown at the end of this video) 🛏️ After the d3ath of Homer Morehouse after 87 hours of dancing, cities like Boston, Los Angeles and New York began banning them. 🙅🏼‍♀️ #History #america #spidernoir #dancemarathon #fyp

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Monday 01 June 2026 16:55:00 GMT