Report Feb. 7, 2007 | 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.

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  1. Scott Olstad said,

    February 8, 2007 @ 2:17 pm

    What is this arcane video player you’re using?

  2. Dark, But Shining » Blog Archive » News Bites: It’s Close to Midnight and Something Evil Lurks in the Dark… said,

    February 9, 2007 @ 10:44 am

    [...] 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. Thrill The World said,

    March 16, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

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