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VIDEO: Waukee Middle-Schoolers Do the What?
Waukee Middle School students got moving in a video posted on YouTube showing them doing the Interlude Dance. It seems like a good day to look at that video again.
All the cool kids are doing it and by "it" I mean the Interlude Dance.
What? You don't know what the Interlude Dance is? Prepare to be schooled.
You can thank three University of Northern Iowa students — Ian Goldsmith, Tyler Wright and Scott Connerley — for creating the Interlude Dance. Back in 2007, the three friends almost accidentally created the dance sensation that would later become something of phenomenon among sports fans.
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In January 2007, the Interlude Dance - a series of six easy-to-learn moves like clapping, the Robot and fist pumps - made its debut at UNI women's basketball game. More than 75 students performed an impromptu version of the dance to Attack! Attack!'s song "Interlude."
Since then, you could say the Interlude has gone the way of the Macarena and the Chicken Dance in terms of popularity. You'll find it performed at sporting events, weddings, in school gyms, even in flash mobs. On YouTube, a search for the Interlude Dance yields more than 9,000 hits. Heck, in February, First Lady Michelle Obama grooved to the Interlude at a "Let's Move!" campaign event held in Des Moines. It doesn't get any bigger than that, folks.
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It shouldn't come as a surprise then that Waukee students have caught onto the craze. A video posted to YouTube in December shows some 900 students and staffers at gettiing their Interlude on in the halls, in the gym, and even in the dark.
So, can you do the Interlude? Give it a try.
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