Gallery: Humans of Dance Marathon
By Dayoung Lee, Frank To, Habeba Mostafa, Erin Gong, Kristie-Valerie Hoang, Wesley Hardin, Esmeralda Lopez, Alyssa Dorn, Amy Dixon, Aubrey Yeo
April 10, 2017 3:17 p.m.
''F--- cancer; we can beat it,'' said John Reyes, a second-year psychobiology student.
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Saadiya Ismail, a fourth-year economics student, was on Team Green. She is a part of Bruin Belles Service Association, a philanthropic women’s empowerment club, and wants to show her group's support for the cause.
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"I don't think any child should feel like they don't have a chance because of something they are born with," said Olivia Handrahan, a first-year business economics major.
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"It's just such a great cause, how can you get so many people in one room if its not a good cause!" said Megan Leigh, a first-year economics student.
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Three-year-old Finley Elizabeth Banks dances to show support for the event and her father who is HIV positive.
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''Four hundred babies are born HIV positive every year, and that's 400 too many,'' said second-year neuroscience student Mathew Quigley. The Team Lime captain wore a lime green tutu and leggings to represent his team.
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''Before 3 is kind of my lowest point of exhaustion, so I find a song to go all out and rehype myself and go on an upwards projectile,'' said fourth-year psychology student Kristin Horrillo, who sang along to the lyrics of ''All By Myself.''
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''I danced today to end stigma and to create world free of HIV/AIDS,'' said Megan Larratt (left), a second-year world arts and cultures student. ''Dance Marathon has been an inspiration to me for the past two years to stand up for what I believe in and that anything is possible when people come together,'' added Devon Whitlock (right), a second-year nursing student.
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"Honestly a lot of it was on sale, and half of the fun is dressing up and making a fool of yourself," said Olivia London, a fourth-year musical theater student, about her America-themed costume.
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"Freshman year, (Dance Marathon) was just like the one thing that really stuck with me," said Shefali Kaul (right), who convinced her friend Tiffany Liu (left), both fourth-year biology students, to participate in Dance Marathon this year. "I wanted to take part in a UCLA tradition that I had always heard about," Liu said.
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"Ah shoot! I got dragged in 'cause I really like dancing," said Drew Karson, a third-year chemical engineering student, dressed up as a pirate for Dance Marathon. "I signed up and then found out it was my birthday, but I was already committed and this is a fun place to be."
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Dance Marathon started by teaching all participants a dance to a certain song in the first hour. Sami Sukhram, a third-year political science and anthropology student, performs this dance with other participants in the 23rd hour of the marathon.
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"Early I was dancing the night away in my pajamas and i'm just most comfortable in my pajamas," said Vanessa Robinson, a first-year psychology and Spanish student. "I feel like wearing PJs is something comfy and fun and just shows that anyone can have a good no matter what time of day."
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