Advertisement
Report
News / Feb. 7, 2007 at 3:45 pm

Dance Marathon breaks “Thriller” world record

Dance Marathon broke the Guinness World Record for the most people doing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at the same time. DM had 78 dancers in SPAC Wednesday afternoon, said Krysta Kauble, a public relations co-chair for DM. Before today, the largest performance was from October 2006 in Toronto, when 60 people did the dance.

Updated Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 8:43 p.m.

Also on NBN

DM also had a trivia night last week. Or you can return home.

Advertisement

Comments

  1. What is this arcane video player you’re using?

    Scott Olstad

    February 8, 2007 at 2:17 pm

  2. [...] Oh, what’s that? You want to see video of it? Please, by all means take a gander. There’s something incredibly spooky and fun about how quickly these kids shift from “Happy Dancers Hanging About a Gymnasium” to “Dancing, Evil Corpses.” [Found at Chicagoist] [...]

  3. WORLD WIDE THRILLER DANCE…Thousands of dancing zombies will take over the world on Oct. 27, 2007

    THRILL THE WORLD

    attempting a Guinness World Record for World’s Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance!!! Anyone can do the dance! “Thriller Teaching Video 2.0″ available on http://www.youtube.com

    Learn The Dance… Thrill The World

    http://www.thrilltheworld.com

    If you think this is a cool idea please email us, we need your support to make this event happen. Send your name and city to: thrilltheworld@gmail.com

    Thrill The World

    March 16, 2007 at 1:36 pm

  4. Ha! I remember this! We were trying to break the record in Seattle. Thanks Thrill the World!

    Much Love to the Dancers!
    Ariana
    http://www.mydancesneakers.com

    Ariana

    November 12, 2008 at 3:58 pm

  5. [...] years ago, DM did a PR stunt and it was very successful, and it made a lot of people excited for DM,” Ressmeyer said. [...]

  6. [...] often, it seems, despite the university’s nationally-renowned academics, lacrosse team and attempts at breaking the record for the largest group of people dancing to Michael Jackson’s [...]

Leave a Comment

Read our comment policy