DanceBlue Blitz Week, the final week of donations for the dance marathon, lasted from Jan. 22-26 and had an exciting finale.

The finale took place in front of the Mining and Minerals Resource Building and had a surprise in store for an unsuspecting audience of students.

At 1:54 p.m. during class change, music started playing and people came out of nowhere and gathered in front of the building to perform. Over 30 dancers participated in a flash mob featuring part of this year’s line dance. 

“Each day we had little activities planned,” said Jodi Llanora, the DanceBlue 2018 PR Chair said. “And today we featured a little bit of the new line dance.”

The fall blitz week, Llanora said, is about getting people signed up, while the spring is about raising awareness for the fundraiser.

“It’s a program that really means something to me, said Hallea Barnhill a freshman kinesiology major. “Especially the children battling this in my hometown. I hope this week got everyone as ready for DanceBlue as I am.”

Barnhill said her high school had mini DanceBlue marathons where she was first introduced to the fundraiser.

This year’s DanceBlue marathon takes place Feb. 17-18 in Memorial Coliseum.

DanceBlue, a now 12-year UK tradition has raised more than $11 million to support the Golden Matrix Fund. A fund established to support the kids of the DanceBlue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic both today and well into the future through an endowment.