WORLD DANCING RECORD
Attempt To Be Made In Wellington
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 11.
Wellington dancers will have a chance this month of beating the world record endurance test of 24 hours. Contenders will start in a hall at 9.30 p.m. on April 23 and 24 hours later, the survivors (if any) will be taken—dancing—on a truck to a rock ’n’ roll jamboree in the Town Hall.
One of the sponsors, but not a competitor, is Mr Milton Mitchell, who beat the previous world record by dancing 24 hours nonstop in Brisbane in 1948.
Mr Mitchell said today that the contest would not, as in some marathon performances, just be a matter of a dance? staying on his or her feet. For instance, all food and drink must be taken while competitors were still dancing. The judges, after giving three warnings, would disqualify anybody falling behind the beat of the dance music—quickstep, slow foxtrot, quickstep.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28251, 12 April 1957, Page 11
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