The 24 Hour Cancer Dance-a-Thon has an full lineup of events planned throughout the 24hour period. The Dance-a-Thon has fun contests, like the annual Shirt Cutting Content, always a crowd favorite, and the boogie steps relay. Also plan on dance performances, dance instruction, pancake breakfasts, group Photo commemorating the event and many more fun events yet to be scheduled this year. You are allowed to come early to set up your team area (pop-ups, displays etc..), and the official event kicks off at 11am!
- 9:00am – Doors Open to Public – Team set up
- 10:00am – Registration Opens
- 10:50am – Opening Ceremony – Patient Speaker from City of Hope
- 11:00am – 24 Hour dance begins – DJ Chris Do
- 11:30am – Lesson: Intro to Swing Dancing with Audrey Wilson
- 12:00pm – Noon – Live Music by Chris Williams Sextet
- 1:00pm – Lesson: Charleston with Jofflyn Valencia and Amber Villa
- 1:30pm – DJ Jofflyn Valencia
- 2:00pm – Live Music by RAVE Swing Band
- 3:00pm – Lesson: Lindy Hop with Carla Heiney and Shesha Marvin
- 3:30pm – DJ Fred Fielding
- 4:00pm – Live Music By The Swingsations
- 5:00pm – Lesson: Peabody/Swingwalk with Ben and Sheri Yao
- 5:30pm – DJ Heather Eide
- 6:00pm – Live Music By The Fabulous Esquires
- 7:00pm – Lesson: New Ideas with Mikey Pedroza and Nikki Marvin
- 7:30pm – DJ Morgan Day and Performance by the ATOMIC Cherry Bombs – Performance by Hollywood Hotshots
- 8:00pm – Live Music By Dean Mora
- 9:00pm – Lesson: Rueda with Jim Cruzen and Margie Adams
- 9:30pm – DJ Michael Siebert and Performance by the ATOMIC Cherry Bombs
- 10:00pm – Live Music By Ginger Pauley and the Hoosier Daddys
- 11:00pm – Lesson: The Shim Sham with Shesha Marvin
- 11:30pm – DJ Morgan Day – Salsa Performance by Pepe and Angel – Performance by The Talls and the Smalls
- 12:00am – Midnight – Stompy Jones – Midnight All Skate – Group Photo
- 1:00am – Lesson: Lead and Follow with Tise Chao
- 1:30am – DJ Carl Flores - Le Tour De Dance Finals
Time Change “Spring Forward from 2am – 3am”
- 3:00am – Live Music by the Bathtub Whiskies –
- 4:00am – Lesson: Building your Boogie with Minn Vo and Katie Mae Anderson
- 4:30am – DJ Mike Lopez - Boogie Steps Relay
- 5:00am – Live Music by Gabriel Ambrosius’s Gypsy Jazz Jam Session
- 5:30am – DJ Lorenzo Rossi
- 6:00am – DJ Andy Shih - T-shirt Cutting Contest
- 6:30am – Lesson: Wake up with Mikey Pedroza
- 7:00am – DJ Paul Almazan- Breakfast
- 7:30am – DJ Brian Begun
- 8:00am – Live music by Danny Maika
- 9:00am – Lesson:Lindy Hop Turns with Jean Ma and Bromley Palomountain
- 9:30am – DJ Peter Kunstt
- 10:00am – Live Music By Pete Jacob’s and his wartime radio revue!
- 11:00am – Lesson: Musicality with Rusty Frank
- 11:30am – DJ Morgan Day – The Home Stretch
- 12:00pm – Noon – Closing Ceremony – Giving of the Big Check – Prize Giveaways for top participants
- 12:10pm – Please stay and clean up!
When I registered I signed up for team OC Swing. However, I’m not listed on their team roster. How do I join their team?
I was registered on 1/18 with Swinstrong and 1/20 as Teamless. Please delete the latter to avoid confusion.
There was a bug with the registration form regarding this issue. It has been fixed. Since you are now registered, however, you will need to submit a request to join team OC Swing. Here’s how you do it:
Log in to your Dance-a-thon account at http://www.danceathon.org/participate
scroll down below where you see your profile information. You will see a heading titled What to do next:. Find the link to join a team, click it, and follow the instructions on that page, selecting OC Swing as your team.
The teamless user has been deleted.
When is the Jack & Jill final?
Saturday night some time to be determined.