Dance Blue-- A Visual

Blog Post #10

Topic: Dance Blue Photo (2009)

    The above picture is a photo that was taken at the end of the Dance Blue marathon in 2009.  It shows that the students raised over $600,00 that year. This picture from the University of Kentucky Spotlight Archives does a good job of illustrating just how much fun students have at Dance Blue and how much good it does.

    From the picture it's clearly apparent just how many people participate in Dance Blue, so many that in years past they have had to turn people away because the capacity of Memorial Coliseum is not enough to hold everyone.  In the photo you can also see that there are many smaller groups of people that have different colored shirts on.  These are different Dance Blue teams.  For example, this year there is an Engineering team for Dance Blue that residents of Champion Court I who are in the Engineering Residential College can join.  As a team you raise money together, create a team t-shirt, and participate in activities at Dance Blue together against other teams.

   Some questions that come to mind with the amount of people in this photo is whether or not the Dance Blue has plans to change venues to be able to hold more people.  I would think that Rupp Arena would be the largest indoor venue in Lexington, so maybe one day it will be held there, which would be cool.  Also, it would be good to know if signups are on a first come first serve basis, or if certain team have precedence over others.

   This should be a very exciting documentary to make. Unfortunately Dance Blue is not actually until February, so we will not be able to get video from this year's marathon, but there is still plenty of resources to explore to make our documentary.

--Stephen Ritchie