Dancing World Records
Dancing world records feature all different styles of dance, from the Twist to the Worm to go-go and the Macarena. If you've put in hours of practice doing tap, ballet, jazz or ballroom dancing, here's the place to show it off. If you're not a seasoned performer, it doesn't matter - just gather some friends and rave with glow sticks or crank the car stereo and groove in a parking lot.
Dancing Challenges
49 Records
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Heather O’Neal tap danced at an elevation of 5364 meters. She performed the feat at Mount Everest’s South Base Camp in Khumbu, Nepal.
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Most Graphic Designers Dancing To "Thriller"
Seven graphic designers from Alfalfa Studio and MyORB hit the streets of Soho in New York City and danced to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
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Most Ballroom Dancing Dips In One Minute
Joey Lawton dipped Mollie Herman 85 times in one minute.
The feat was achieved on October 18, 2009 at the Saucony Originals[] tent at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco, California.
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Most Girls Simultaneously Danced With On A Dance Floor While On Crutches
Dan Crowley danced with two girls on a dance floor at the same time while on crutches.
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Most People Dancing To A Song Playing From A Car Stereo
James Medina and Paul Bryan led a group of 208 people dancing to music playing from a Ford Fusion.
They set the record as part of Fusion 41, a nationwide world record challenge created by the Ford Motor Company.
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Most People Doing The Cabbage Patch Dance In A Whole Foods With A Crying Bearded Man Watching
18 members of Wieden Kennedy’s Team Hot Pink did The Cabbage Patch Dance[] in a Whole Foods while a crying, bearded man watched.
The record was set in Portland, Oregon on April 1, 2010 at the agency’s 28th annual Founders’ Dayparty.URDB World Records co-foundersDan Rollman and Corey Henderson were on hand to preside over the event.
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Largest Group Of Girls Named Toby Dancing At Once
Toby Peterson danced in a group all by her self.
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Most Clogging '#1 Steps' Performed In 30 Seconds
Kelly Reeves performed 42clogging‘#1 steps’ in 30 seconds. Reeves learned the dance form while growing up in Georgia, and performed onstage at the Grand Ole Oprymany times.
The record was set at a World Record Appreciation Society event held at Joe’s Pub in New York City. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present as witnesses.
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Most Composers Programmed In A Single Show
600 international composers were programmed into a single 10-hour show at theFaculty of Fine Arts Gallery at Concordia University. All pieces were one minute in length and were accompanied by live dance and video."
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Slowest Time To Dance The Macarena
Mick Cullen took one minute, 46.9 seconds to dance one cycle of the Macerenaduring a live broadcast of WRLR 98.3 FM’sSubterranean[]show in Round Lake Heights, Illinois.
This record was one of 16 URDB records broken during the show’s attempt to set a new record for Most URDB World Records Broken During A Live Radio Show[].
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Mamrie Hart consumed an entire veggie corndog while dancing the zombie voiceover section of Michael Jackson’s ’Thriller’.
Mamrie set the record at a World Record Appreciation Society event held at Joe’s Pub in New York City. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present as witnesses.
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Most People Performing The Purple Cobras' Entrance Dance At Once
55 attendees of iD Tech Camps UC San Diego performed thePurple Cobras’ entrance dance[] from the movieDodgeball at the same time.
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Most Videos Shot At A Dance Party
831 videos were shot at The Open Video Conference’s dance party, a new world record.The party took place in New York City on October 1, 2010.
URDB officials Evan Altshuler and Emily Miethner were present to oversee the feat. Verisign.tv sponsored the event.
Participants submitted videos in three different ways:
Uploaded videos to a social network and tagged them with #dottvparty.
Uploaded videos to openvideoconference.org.
Downloaded ecaster.tv mobile app and uploaded videos to openvideo.tv.
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Loland Kapuchinski built a hula girl measuring 4.72 meters (186 inches) in height.
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Most Dancers Wearing Fake Mustaches In A Conga Line
While wearing fake mustaches, 48 members of Texas 4000 danced in a conga line. Each mustache was made using Break Cancer stickers.
Heather O'Neal 
Alfalfa Studio 
Joey Lawton 
Dan Crowley 
James Medina 
Team Hot Pink 
Toby Petersen 
Kelly Reeves 
Vox Nous 
Mick Cullen 
Mamrie Hart 
iD Tech Camps UC San Diego 
Open Video Conference Party Attendees 
Loland Kapuchinski 
Texas 4000