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Word: arnstadt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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...wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely spread. A band of German children danced hectically from Erfurt to Arnstadt (12 mi.), many of them dying on the way, the rest living on, completely shattered mentally. Another troupe danced on a bridge at Marburg, until the bridge collapsed and all were drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance History | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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