Teacher Brings Down The House In Wild Choreographed Dance Performance With Nearly 200 Students
Aug 28, 2020 by apost team
Scot Pankey, a secondary school educator in Dallas, certainly knows how to relate to his students. In 2015, Mr. Pankey figured out that his students spent a lot of time watching YouTube videos. This clever teacher came up with a project involving the entire class: a choreographed dance number to the tune of Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk, which features Bruno Mars on vocals.
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The short clip starts off with him sitting at his desk and looking like he would rather like to be somewhere else; suddenly, music starts playing and he becomes animated enough to start dancing, as reported on here by the BBC.
According to ABC News, Pankey assembled nearly 200 students in order to make the video.
“I wanted to give them a project after the holidays that would get them excited and pumped out about learning,” Pankey, a theater teacher, told ABC News. “I heard Uptown Funk and instantly thought that’s the sing we have to do it to.”
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Mr. Pankey clearly has some moves and to date, the video has been seen by over 180,000 including Bruno Mars, who wrote on his Facebook:
"I cried at the end [...] Thank you to everyone who was involved in making this video."
The following year, Mr. Pankey and his class produced an even slicker video, using the song Good Day to be Alive by Andy Grammer that attracted an even bigger audience.
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