A cult internet sensation has reached Macclesfield College with good-humoured staff recreating their own version of the ‘Harlem Shake’.
The dance was devised by a group of teenagers in Australia who made a silly video featuring music by American DJ Baauer.
But the quirky nature of the film – which sees people in seemingly mundane situations break out into dance wearing wacky costumes – has become an internet sensation, with people across the globe recreating their own spin-offs.
Staff at the Park Lane college drafted in their promotional ‘logo bugs’ – a fluff ball on a piece of ribbon – to create their party atmosphere, and since being uploaded to YouTube last Friday, it has been viewed more than 600 times. Marketing officer David Ardill, who appears in the video with colleague Adrian Webster, who wears a penguin costume, said: “It was a little bit of Friday afternoon frivolity really.
“We broke up for half term on Friday so we thought it would be something fun to do.
“Our core audience is 16-18-year-olds and this is what they are all watching at the moment so we thought we’d get involved.”
And it’s not the first spoof video the staff have created using the ‘Little Furry Animals’, who have appeared in a special Valentine’s video and a recreation of John Lewis’s Christmas advert, which saw the logo bugs travelling around town before arriving at college.
David added: “We’ve had quite a lot of people watching it and ‘liking’ it on Facebook.
“It’s good to get the college out there, but it’s also putting Macclesfield on the map. We’ve had lots of people looking at the videos globally, people in South Korea could be logging on and watching it.”
The video lasts about 30 seconds and begins with a a sole ‘logo bug’ dancing to the music, before everyone joins in creating a carnival feel.
