Tuesday Trivia - Amateur Dance Contest
by Alain Wong
Lindybloggers is happy to announce our second new weekly column: Tuesday Trivia.
Tuesday Trivia is a weekly trivia question about the history of jazz dance and music. We encourage everyone and anyone who knows the answer to post it up under the comments section - even if it means googling it or looking it up on Wikipedia. The first person to post up the correct answer will get a mention in the following Tuesday Trivia.
This Week’s Tuesday Trivia Question
Name the best-known amateur dance competition in the United States in the 1930’s. As a bonus, name what years a Collegiate Shag division was featured in this competition.
Know the answer? Let everyone know and comment.
Hmm… Harvest Moon Ball?
i’m hoping it was the Harvest Moon Ball. bonus: never because i’ve never watched a clip of it
That one is way too easy even for a dance noob like me - that’s the Harvest Moon Ball! I had to google for the second half, which was apparently in 1937.
Umm….. the Harvest Moon Ball?
Harvest Moon Ball which apparently started in 1927, but wasn’t held at Madison Square Garden until 1935. It appears that Collegiate Shag was a division in 1937. I can’t find any record before that.
Source:
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z6hmb37.htm
[...] Last Week’s Answer The Harvest Moon Ball. The first event was originally scheduled in 1927 in New York’s Central Park. However, an estimated 75,000 people showed up causing disorganization and confusion so the contest was postponed. The first official Harvest Moon Ball took place in 1935 in Madison Square Garden and lasted until 1984. [...]