Yesterday I posted a video showing what I spent most of the day doing: the Glee Flash Mob! The second season of Glee premieres this Tuesday, so a group of nearly 1000 Gleeks (including me) got together and flash mobbed downtown Seattle in celebration.
If you haven’t seen or heard of a flash mob before, it’s basically a large group of people performing random silliness in public. The idea is to act like you’re just hanging out or walking by when you hear some music or notice a few people start to dance. A crowd gathers to watch the dancers and people in the crowd start to join in the dance. More and more people join until there’s a “mob” of dancers, all dancing the same routine. It’s exhilarating to be a part of it and thrilling to the people who aren’t expecting it.
No one knows where the flash mobs will appear (not even the dancers – we didn’t find out the locations until an hour before our first performance) and once the dance is over, the dancers quickly disperse. It’s pretty surreal. However, due to the huge number of Gleeks in Seattle, it wasn’t very subtle. It’s very difficult for 1000 people to nonchalantly show up at the same place without people noticing.
My friend Mary and I left the kids with their dads and spent a sunny day walking around the city, eating doughnuts and humbow from Pike Place Market, and breaking into dance at random times. It was a glorious day.
Here’s the official video from the first flash mob (at Westlake Center). Stay tuned for videos from the Space Needle and Pioneer Square as well!
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