More than 200 young men in prep uniforms sit quietly in an auditorium as a chino-clad student wearing a red wig with pigtails grooves to a beat. Suddenly they're all on their feet, jumping up and down, shirts torn off, bodies flying.
One person is picked up and slammed to the ground, while the dancers keep on moving.
This scene is from a video performed by New Jersey's Seton Hall Prep high school seniors last month. It has more than 60,000 hits on YouTube. And the kid on the ground? He ended up with a head injury — a fact that video makers boast about in their posting: "KID GETS KNOCKED OUT!!! Over 200 members of the SHP senior class of 2013 go hard with their version of the Harlem Shake. One kid gets knocked out and gets a severe concussion at 0:17."
Brian Zak
In recent weeks, two groups of Harlem Shakers like this one were broken up by cops in Times Square. The global dance craze has landed lots of dancers in hot water.
Frank Maldonado, the Seton Hall Prep senior who planned the video shoot, says he had permission to make it, and in spite of the fall, there was no fallout.
"The headmaster trusted me to organize the event and make sure nothing profane would go on," Maldonado told The Post in an e-mail. "The school took it well, and it's been nothing but positive. And yes the kid is OK! He was left mildly concussed."
But not everyone is laughing off the Shake — and its consequences.
The craze seemed harmless at first. The catchy track produced by Brooklyn DJ and music producer Baauer has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks straight and inspired half a million people to post their own viral dance videos on YouTube.
The recordings all start with a single person dancing like crazy surrounded by others who appear oblivious. After the beat drops a few seconds in, the entire group — usually wearing costumes or masks — joins in, throwing their hands in the air, leaping up and down and generally creating pandemonium.
High school students, college kids and company employees from Egypt to the East Side of Manhattan have all gotten in on the act, grabbing their chance to have a bit of fun while being a part of history.
But now, just weeks after comedian Filthy Frank posted the first Harlem Shake video on Feb. 2, the fad is starting to look like the "Footloose" of the YouTube era.
In other words, where and when you get your Shake on can get you in a lot of trouble.
So far, about 100 students around the country have been suspended for making the dance videos at school, according to the National Coalition Against Censorship. Two Shake mobs were broken up in Times Square. A teacher from Oklahoma was reportedly suspended, and 15 gold miners in Australia were fired for posting their versions of the Shake. In Russia, five people were arrested for dancing on a WWII army tank at a memorial. And Tunisia has gone as far as banning its citizens from even performing it.
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