The fun video is actually a school project given to the students of A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas by their theater teacher Scot Pankey.
- January 28, 2015
AceShowbiz -
This high school teacher and his students teamed up for a super cool school project. Scot Pankey, a theater teacher of A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas, Texas, recently joined forces with students from his six different classes to create a video of them dancing to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' hit "Uptown Funk".
The fun video was later shared via YouTube and quickly went viral. In the five-minute clip, which was shot in a single take, Pankey shows off the choreographed dance moves as he makes his way through groups of high schoolers in the hallways.
"This is a great example of how a bunch of technology students let go of their fears, trusted their teacher and got down to 'Uptown Funk!' " read the video's description on YouTube.
The dance clip is actually a challenge given by Pakey to his students for their first presentation of the year. "I heard the song before Christmas and fell in love with it. We are a project-based school. That means you give the students a project, put them in teams, and they have to come up with solutions. They had three weeks to work on it, then present as a group what they learned," the teacher explained to the Dallas Morning News.
"I told them, 'I am not a dancer, but I'd love to do this and go on this journey with you, and we can all learn from it and have a good time,' " he continued and then admitted to being "overwhelmed" by people's response to the dance video, "I am honored. It's all been very positive."
