DATELINE: Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:55pm... Pick up time at Claremont Preparatory School's Lower School on Broad Street in the Financial District, NYC (one block from NY Stock Exchange at Wall St). This pick up, however, would be like none other. An unsuspecting Lower School student body -- approximately 200 kids between the ages of five and ten years old -- cautiously looked around the Broad Street Ballroom as the lights dimmed to a warm orange light and the loud sound of a mandolin could be heard on the overhead speakers. "What's going on?" was a resounding question from some of the young children as a 2nd Grade teacher, walked across the middle of the Ballroom floor playing a mandolin. As Florence Welch, the lead singer from the British band Florence and The Machine, begins singing haunting lyrics of happiness to their hit single, "The Dog Days Are Over," 70 Lower and Middle School parents, teachers and school administrators began congregating in the middle of the Ballroom floor -- but they were all dancing in the same way and clapping with two 1/8 notes followed by a 1/4 note. Throwing their hands in the air and trotting clockwise in unison, to adults familiar with the concept, it was a flash mob coming together. To young children, it was hauntingly cool beyond words. "OMG, is that my mom out there? She's doing it! She's doing the dance!" The children were completely shocked to see their parents, teachers and the Heads of the Lower School frenetically dancing and ...
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Claremont Flash Mob
Claremont Flash Mob Video Clips. Duration : 5.08 Mins.
DATELINE: Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:55pm... Pick up time at Claremont Preparatory School's Lower School on Broad Street in the Financial District, NYC (one block from NY Stock Exchange at Wall St). This pick up, however, would be like none other. An unsuspecting Lower School student body -- approximately 200 kids between the ages of five and ten years old -- cautiously looked around the Broad Street Ballroom as the lights dimmed to a warm orange light and the loud sound of a mandolin could be heard on the overhead speakers. "What's going on?" was a resounding question from some of the young children as a 2nd Grade teacher, walked across the middle of the Ballroom floor playing a mandolin. As Florence Welch, the lead singer from the British band Florence and The Machine, begins singing haunting lyrics of happiness to their hit single, "The Dog Days Are Over," 70 Lower and Middle School parents, teachers and school administrators began congregating in the middle of the Ballroom floor -- but they were all dancing in the same way and clapping with two 1/8 notes followed by a 1/4 note. Throwing their hands in the air and trotting clockwise in unison, to adults familiar with the concept, it was a flash mob coming together. To young children, it was hauntingly cool beyond words. "OMG, is that my mom out there? She's doing it! She's doing the dance!" The children were completely shocked to see their parents, teachers and the Heads of the Lower School frenetically dancing and ...
DATELINE: Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:55pm... Pick up time at Claremont Preparatory School's Lower School on Broad Street in the Financial District, NYC (one block from NY Stock Exchange at Wall St). This pick up, however, would be like none other. An unsuspecting Lower School student body -- approximately 200 kids between the ages of five and ten years old -- cautiously looked around the Broad Street Ballroom as the lights dimmed to a warm orange light and the loud sound of a mandolin could be heard on the overhead speakers. "What's going on?" was a resounding question from some of the young children as a 2nd Grade teacher, walked across the middle of the Ballroom floor playing a mandolin. As Florence Welch, the lead singer from the British band Florence and The Machine, begins singing haunting lyrics of happiness to their hit single, "The Dog Days Are Over," 70 Lower and Middle School parents, teachers and school administrators began congregating in the middle of the Ballroom floor -- but they were all dancing in the same way and clapping with two 1/8 notes followed by a 1/4 note. Throwing their hands in the air and trotting clockwise in unison, to adults familiar with the concept, it was a flash mob coming together. To young children, it was hauntingly cool beyond words. "OMG, is that my mom out there? She's doing it! She's doing the dance!" The children were completely shocked to see their parents, teachers and the Heads of the Lower School frenetically dancing and ...
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