Colin Wynter

For the 1945 newsreel, see Dancing Man.
For the sports fan formerly known as Dancing Man, see Clipper Darrell.

Colin Wynter is the central figure in the Dancing Man viral video taken at the Sasquatch music festival in 2009.[1][2] At first, the video depicts Wynter, a lone dancer behind a festive audience seated on a grassy bank, listening to a performance of "Unstoppable" (a song from Santigold's eponymous debut album). Then a follower joins in. In quick succession, the crowd "tips" from being passive and seated to being active and dancing too.

The video was the topic of a TED conference talk in 2010 by Derek Sivers, who suggested the phenomenon was a microcosm of leadership, with emphasis on the importance of the leader attracting and then embracing his first follower.[3] However Wynter himself later said, "I didn’t know that I did anything special really; all I did was self-express… " and "I guess I just thought everybody was silly, sitting there just chillin’, so ... I started yellin’ at them to get off their lazy asses."[4]

References

  1. ↑ "'Dancing Man' not shy about YouTube attention". Canadian Broadcasting Co. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  2. ↑ dkellerm (26 May 2009). "Sasquatch music festival 2009 - Guy starts dance party". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  3. ↑ Sivers, Derek (2010-03-09). "How to start a movement". TED.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  4. ↑ Catania, Christopher (2010-05-10). "Sasquatch Festival's "Dancing Guy" Reveals His Swarm-Starting Secrets". Live Fix. Retrieved 2016-03-27. I guess I just thought everybody was silly, sitting there just chillin’, so ... I started yellin’ at them to get off their lazy asses.
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