If you aren’t familiar with the concept, a flash mob appears to be a spontaneous public performance by a small number of people who coax untrained but willing Average Joes from the audience into singing and dancing along with them. As the crowd of onlookers and participants builds, it becomes clear that the show has been well planned.
Colman, who graduated last year from LHHS, where he danced as a Wrangler captain, says he’s always enjoyed dancing (in the video you can spot him in the front row wearing a dark shirt and trousers with a round red button on his right chest, and at the end, that’s Colman in the red shirt leading the singer back to the center. It’s also Colman doing the back handsprings).
“HP [Hewlett Packard] was having a big appreciation day for their employees and we were the big performance,” he told me. “They hired AMS Productions here in Dallas to organize and coordinate all the performers. We danced to ‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz and ‘Firework’ by Katy Perry.”
“The singers used a recording of their own voices, which they record in the studio beforehand to take away possible complications or problems, and the dancers were a mix of semi-professional performers and ‘normal’ people (people with no dance experience). There were a total of 70 dancers, 5 singers, 3 cellists, 1 violinist and a handful of directors and cameramen.” (This video of the same flash mob doesn’t show Colman as well but shows aspects omitted by the other video.)
Colman, who’s planning to get a degree in environmental studies before going to law school, says he thoroughly enjoyed the experience. “It was such a fun and exciting performance and it affirmed my affinity for performing. All in all, it was a great experience that I will never forget.”
