Dressed in brightly colored onesies and last minute DIY creations, participants of Dance Marathon took full advantage of the various themed shifts that took place over 26 hours.

Jumping on brightly lit quadrants, students participate on the first ever human powered dance floor at Dance Marathon. UCLA’s Ecology, Economy, Equity club teamed up with the Pediatric AIDS Coalition to bring the event the kinetic dance floor.

Ambassadors from Camp Kindle, a camp for young people affected with HIV and AIDS, were invited to Dance Marathon to speak on behalf of the Project Kindle Foundation.

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In the town where Erin FitzGerald grew up in Iowa, her dad’s condition had to remain a secret – he was HIV positive.

I slept for 17 hours straight between Sunday and Monday.
How is that possible, you ask? Well, I had been standing for the 26 hours before that, so I felt I was justified to sleep from 3 p.m.

In their 26th hour of dancing without sleep, about a thousand people crouched down during The Isley Brothers’ song “Shout.” Chase Skillin physically could not. Unable to bend his legs because he tore a ligament in his knee nearly three weeks ago, he was one of the few people standing up, his crutches propped under his arms.

Daily Bruin’s Spectrum set up a photo booth in Ackerman Grand Ballroom during the 2013 UCLA Dance Marathon to snap portraits of dancers and participants. We met a variety of people in bright outfits and bandana headbands who still had energy, even late into the night.

Heading into the 24th hour of Dance Marathon. The crowd seemed tired, but pumped. They were dancing. They were singing. And in front of them stood Michael Basic.

While many students hit a wall during the fifteenth hour of Dance Marathon, first-year human biology and society student Amy Gonser managed to power through the early hours of the morning with gusto.

Seven hours into Dance Marathon, dancers started lining up inside the first floor of Ackerman Union to get their second meal of the event.