--- ---  # 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. Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson: Dallas High School Teacher Dance Video ```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"}}]}] ```