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Block 8: Athletes and Mathletes

March 9, 2019

While dancers fill the tent for one of the final blocks of the 2019 Northwestern University Dance Marathon, overhead lights changed colors in sync to the music. The big screens seamlessly cut to a celebrity...

Block 4: Wildest Dreams

March 9, 2019

As Northwestern University Dance Marathon participants drag themselves around the perimeter of Norris University Center during the sunrise tradition sequence, some dancers may wonder how this is a NUDM...

Block 8: Shiver Me Tinder

March 10, 2018

Dancers “super-liked” Block 8 — a block sponsored by dating app Tinder and aptly themed “Shiver Me Tinder.” “(The tent is) the best place to find love!” emcee Kelly Eichenholz joked to...

Dance Marathon 2015: Block 8 recap

March 7, 2015

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...

Trautwein: What I learned in college: At Northwestern, passion is celebrated

June 18, 2013

Full disclosure: I’m currently in a very particular and precarious emotional state. I watched two movies today: "First Daughter" and "Shakespeare in Love." I have a final tomorrow, and a cold, and I...

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