Join Blues Fish and help Cure Cancer!
Every year there is a Marathon Dance in support of Cancer research at the City of Hope Hospital. Many of us participate because we know someone who is struggling or has struggled with Cancer. As a community, dancers have helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for this cause each year.
It’s time again to come together again and start collecting donations. This year we have the opportunity of starting our blues team “Blues Fish” so that we can help carry the torch at our own pace.
Dancing 24hrs is fun and a great bonding experience. Teams collect money together and compete with other teams to raise the most $. Each team sets up a booth to represent their team and act as a base for the resting dancers. You don’t have to dance the whole time but someone from your team must be on the floor dancing for the full 24hrs. Generally, you can think of this whole event as a mini dance exchange for a good cause.
For the past two years the marathon has been held at a luxury 24hr Fitness in Irvine. There are showers, pools, jacuzzis, lockers, handball courts, etc. If you’re not dancing there is plenty there with which to distract or comfort yourself.
The General Danceathon rules are as follows:
1) Register & Join our “Blues Fish”
2) Raise at least $65 for each person on the team
3) Within your team, arrange for at least ONE person to be on the dance floor at all times (from noon until noon the next day)
4) Create a ‘baton’ or other signifier for the dancer who is officially dancing for the team to identify them on the floor
5) Everybody else on the team can either dance, rest, eat, sleep, etc. as they like
The rules are only slightly different for the Blues Team. If you join the Blues Fish then…
1) All the above rules apply, except…
2) For our team only, dancing in the Blues Room will be a valid way of carrying the ‘baton.’ That means that, while the Blues Room is open, the blues team can dance there and not be abandoning their post on the main dance floor.
The Blues Room will be open from 10pm until 8am.
If you are interested in participating please let us know and check out the information on the Danceathon Website. We need 14-28 people to create a team.
Date & Time:
March 13-14, 2010
Noon – Noon
Location:
24 Hour Fitness Ultra Sport
(Just Off the 405 Freeway at Jamboree in Irvine)
18007 Von Karman Ave
Irvine, CA 92612
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