The film helped ignite a tango craze. By the Roaring Twenties ... The joyous dance style was born from another dance fad, the dance marathon. In the 1920s and 1930s, Depression-era dancers ...

she was likely a major influence on the dance marathon fad that swept the country. Over the next several weeks, people eager to get some fleeting fame of their own broke the record. (Cumming ...

The University of Minnesota’s Dance Marathon is a misnomer, as it is not necessarily a “dance” or a “marathon.” Students in Dance Marathon raise money throughout the year for Gillette Children’s ...