Shoppers start dance flash mob at Portland mall

Hundreds Unexpectedly Broke Out in Viral Dance at Clackamas Town Center



Portland, Oregon Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Portland Improv, a social experiment and performing arts group known to push the limits on the social norm, hosted their latest event, dubbed, Lets Dance!, at the Clackamas Town Clackamas Town Center at two oclock p.m. within the main mall corridor in front of the Macys Home Furniture Store. An audio track began playing through the mall speaker system, and two dancers began performing before the unsuspecting shoppers, this was followed by more and more of our dancers until all 120 were showing off their choreographed moves. The dance (1:20 min. long) then ended just as quickly as it began. When the music stopped all of the dancers simply dissipated into the rest of the crowd, leaving no explanation.



Portland Improv is a collective mainly comprised of college students who like to provoke joy and create scenes in public places. Lets Dance! was Portland Improvs sixth event in Portland, the most famous of which being the Portland Freeze. The group coordinated over 1,500 participants and had them all strike a pose and hold it for 5 minutes within the Pioneer Courthouse Square to literally freeze time. Recently, the Portland Freeze became an annual event and was replicated again alongside the Portland Rose Festival inside their Waterfront Village with even greater surprise and mayhem among bystanders (1,000 participants).


This event was no different, but rather than frozen participants, joy was spread through the beauty of dance and community.


KOIN Channel 6 news footage:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=157569605902

KATU Channel 2 news footage:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=157653140902&saved

Get info on future flash mob events via our Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32201544195

Portland Improv

Josh Enobakhare (josh@pdximprov)
Corbin Wescott (corbin@pdximprov.com)
Tiffany Gilly (tiffany@pdximprov.com)

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Entertainment

Tags:

• mob
• dance
• flash
• mall
• Portland
• improv
• lets
• clackamas
• town
• center
• freeze
• stady
• enobakhare

[JamesDynasty]

compared to other flash dance mobs, this one sucks

[MrGermanluckboy]

To mention the comment below good attempt however people shouldn't just be standing around you need to come in with a surprise. Not really a surprise when you have people involved just standing around ominously.

[MrYung3zzy]

i would have walked straight through them

[Belinda102906]

That was wack!! No skills at all...learn how to dance before going public

[Bludhoundz8]

@RMBOclannn Because times are tough, America is going to shit, nobody has a job, and people want to get together and have a good time to forget about their troubles and be happy for once. Thats why. Get it? Good.

[TheMinecraftAG]

thumbs up for that little girl on the right at 0:57

[poopyskidmark]

why can't niggers do this... when they do a flash mob it's to hunt down white people to rob , beat and kill , or shoplift and kill the store clerk FOR A BAG OF CHIPS!

DIRTY NIGGER ANIMALS.

[RMBOclannn]

Why do people do that stupid shit

[sumNkim]

@JamesDynasty oh be nice...portland already sucks enough lol and this has to be as good enough as portlands going to getXP we will never be compared to New york or Florida or cali...:(

[HYPNOTICVIDEO]

Funny but after 30 seconds you just want them to stop

[Soldierlozer]

@JamesDynasty I totally agreed. camera-work isn't that good either. You hardly see any one watching the dance.