Marathon Dance Critique

The Great Depression originated in the United States with the stock market crash in 1929. The depression was the biggest economic fall in American’s history. This crash stretched throughout the globe and affected the rich as well as the poor. During the great depression, the unemployment was high, the wages were low, lines stretched around the city for food, and children had to stop school to work for money. Zishan Ugurlu, the director of “Marathon Dancing: Letters To Wall Street In The Era of Wonderful Nonsense” shows the history of the marathon dancing in the 1920s and 1930s. The performance is around two hours long, and without a rest time. The dance is held in Loree Dance Theater on Douglass Campus. The theater is very small, which not able to fit lots of people at the same time. There are
Therefore, people are motivated to thrive for power as they look upon those who have succeeded to join those who live a better life. At first, the dancers are dancing with high energy and enthusiasm, but slowly, people start to pass out and start to have mental issue. It is obvious to see that the judge, DJ and employees have no sympathy towards dancers, and everything they care is keep audiences coming back and making lots of money. The performance makes me connect to a popular movie and novel, Hunger Game. In Hunger Game, The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the twelve districts are in varying states of poverty. However, the Hunger Games like a celebrated sporting event and a highly anticipated source of entertainment and past time. Also, the more blood and fighting there is in the arena, the greater the entertainment for the Capitol, which is same as the Marathon Dancing. In order to keep audiences, promoters will use different methods, such as elimination contest and mock weddings, to make the show more