NewsNational

Actions

Viral video: Teacher, high schoolers dance through halls to 'Uptown Funk'

Posted at 1:53 PM, Jan 27, 2015
and last updated 2015-01-28 17:21:03-05

High school theater teacher Scot Pankey had to get students in six different theater classes together to make a dance video that's gone viral on social media.

Pankey and students of A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas, Texas dance through the halls to Mark Ronson's and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" in the video he shared Jan. 24. It was the students' first project of the year and was filmed by two high school students in a single take, according to the Dallas Morning News.

As of Tuesday, the video had more than 330,000 views on YouTube.