For 12-year-old Matthew Jazwinski and his mother Tamara, 30 hours has a special resonance. “This is a 30-hour dance marathon, and that’s essentially what parents go through during the first 30 hours...

When Marissa Penrod got up on stage during the final block of Dance Marathon 2014 and began talking to the crowd about her son, it was the first time in almost 28 hours the tent reached something close...

Dancers ran into the tent for the final time this weekend, and started Block 10 holding hands. By the time the final seconds of Dance Marathon counted down, everyone in the tent was again embracing...

Before Marissa Penrod was the founder and CEO of a nonprofit, she was a mother. When Penrod’s son, Joseph, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2008, she wanted to create an organization...

Though dancers started to get lethargic in the early hours of Saturday morning, they were quickly reminded why they had committed to dance for 30 hours. Katie Penrod, a representative of Team Joseph...