No matter your level of dance experience just about anyone can take part in a flash mob.
A pair of teachers at Kamehameha Schools who also teach Zumba part-time came up with a dance routine to honor a co-worker who passed away from breast cancer.
"It started as an idea and then we taught the kids and then we brought in the cheerleaders," said flash mob coordinator Mara Bacon-Chang.
"This thing has been growing step by step," said fellow coordinator Gayla Traylor.
Windward Mall stepped in to present their Paint the Mall Pink breast cancer awareness event and the location of the flash mob was set. Now students from various fitness classes and schools around the island wanted in.
Mara came up with an instructional video and posted it online and students from elementary school all the way up to seniors in Zumba classes started learning the routine.
"At first it was kinda hard but then I got the hang of it," said Enchanted Lake Elementary student Lily McDermott.
"I need to work on that clapping," said Enchanted Lake Elementary student Max Cronk.
"And its fun and it teaches you something too, you don’t really focus on that you don’t realize you are learning something," said Dax Matin, student at Kamehameha Schools.
The message of the song Three Little Birds written by Bob Marley is one of hope, faith and love.
"To help breast cancer and to show that we care…also because some historians have believed that Princess Pauahi died of breast cancer too," said Kanani Guerrero, Kamehameha Schools student.
Using social media the flash mob was coordinated via email, You Tube, text message and word of mouth. The main objective to keep it under wraps and maintain the element of surprise.
"No body knows about it except a few people who organized it and a bunch of people jump up to music and start dancing unexpectedly," Guerroro says.
"I would love it to be big," Traylor says.
"I am going to be a little nervous because of all those people," says Cronk.
So were they able to pull it off without any problems?
Olena Heu continues her series Wednesday at 5.
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