--- ---  # Little Kid Dancing at a Wedding Totally Steals the Spotlight From the Bride by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 8, 2014 2:16 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 8, 2014 2:16 PM UTC As the old saying goes: dance like nobody’s watching. This little kid, whose spirited dance routine was [captured](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSBRKTgIrw) at a wedding by YouTube user [Blake Weir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSBRKTgIrw), really took that advice to heart. The experience seems so spiritual and transcendent for him that he doesn’t even appear to hear the music (which happens to be “Sweet Caroline.”) Instead, he’s simply listening to the music playing in his own heart. **MORE:** [You’ll Fall ‘Crazy in Love’ With These Groomsmen After Watching Their Incredible Wedding Dance](http://time.com/2927274/groomsmen-choreographed-wedding-dance-destinys-child/) Viral Video: Little Kid Dances at Wedding ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3303292/kid-dancing-at-wedding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3303292/kid-dancing-at-wedding/"},"headline":"Little Kid Dancing at a Wedding Totally Steals the Spotlight From the Bride","datePublished":"2014-09-08T14:16:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:01.520Z","description":"He's basically the Billy Elliot of wedding dancing","url":"https://time.com/3303292/kid-dancing-at-wedding/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","kids","wedding","dancing"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b40d9a308d15f7c/6986a25436176078e290dbe5/screen-shot-2014-09-08-at-10-04-25-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b40d9a308d15f7c/6986a25436176078e290dbe5/screen-shot-2014-09-08-at-10-04-25-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-09-08 at 10.04.25 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3303292/kid-dancing-at-wedding/","name":"Little Kid Dancing at a Wedding Totally Steals the Spotlight From the Bride"}}]}] ```