Bop till you drop: the staggering true stories behind America's dance marathons
No Miracles Here, a new show at the Edinburgh festival, revisits the Depression-era craze that had couples dancing for weeks in pursuit of big prize money. Today, that spirit lives on in reality TVIn 1933, 14-year-old Anita O'Day went home to her Chicago apartment and told her mother that she was dropping out of school to go dancing. For 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She was to be part of an endurance spectacle …