--- title: Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson: Dallas High School Teacher Dance Video description: We assume the students only agreed to do this so the teacher who initiated it would write them good college recommendation letters canonical: https://time.com/3683229/uptown-funk-dallas-high-school-teacher-dance/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-26T21:39:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:16.160Z og:title: This High School's Choreographed Dance to 'Uptown Funk' Is Basically 'Glee' in Real Life og:description: You do have to admire how elaborate it is og:url: https://time.com/3683229/uptown-funk-dallas-high-school-teacher-dance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt404e70ecb6c75850/69877c00cd1bba076f6f4dd5/high-school-glee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1236 og:image:height: 695 og:image:alt: high-school-glee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This High School's Choreographed Dance to 'Uptown Funk' Is Basically 'Glee' in Real Life twitter:description: You do have to admire how elaborate it is twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt404e70ecb6c75850/69877c00cd1bba076f6f4dd5/high-school-glee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This High School's Choreographed Dance to 'Uptown Funk' Is Basically _Glee_ in Real Life by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 26, 2015 9:39 PM UTC  YouTube by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 26, 2015 9:39 PM UTC Well, you at least have to admire how elaborate this is. A high school teacher at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas, Texas, recruited a bunch of students to be his backup dancers in a choreographed dance to Mark Ronson catchy hit song, “Uptown Funk.” He basically goes on a madcap romp through the school’s hallways, busting out his best moves and gyrating his hips with abandon. According to the [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUEg7kd6Cg), “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!!!” Or, it’s a great example of how a teacher desperately wanted a thing to go viral and students agreed to do it because they needed him to write them good letters of recommendation for their college applications. Either way. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3683229/uptown-funk-dallas-high-school-teacher-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3683229/uptown-funk-dallas-high-school-teacher-dance/"},"headline":"This High School's Choreographed Dance to 'Uptown Funk' Is Basically Glee in Real Life","datePublished":"2015-01-26T21:39:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:16.160Z","description":"We assume the students only agreed to do this so the teacher who initiated it would write them good college recommendation letters","url":"https://time.com/3683229/uptown-funk-dallas-high-school-teacher-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt404e70ecb6c75850/69877c00cd1bba076f6f4dd5/high-school-glee.jpg?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/blt404e70ecb6c75850/69877c00cd1bba076f6f4dd5/high-school-glee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"high-school-glee","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","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/3683229/uptown-funk-dallas-high-school-teacher-dance/","name":"This High School's Choreographed Dance to 'Uptown Funk' Is Basically Glee in Real Life"}}]}] ```