Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) by Mark Ronson

Coaching Notes:

Pre-Teach: No
Focus: External
Purpose: Warm up the body and increase heart rate

This is a funky top 40 song that most people know and will dance and sing along too – It’s really hard to keep the body still for this one! It’s funky, cool, confident, flirty, outgoing, and with lot’s of attitude and personality.

First move is simply connecting to the clap. It only comes this one time in the song. Get the party started and tell them to clap somewhere new every time and get ready to get their funk on like there’s no tomorrow!

Second move is a funky dance walk and this is pretty much what you do throughout the whole song.
This makes it great as an icebreaker as the 2nd or 3rd song in class, or even as the very first song if you have an event where you need to kick-start the energy and have people moving right away.
Observe your crowd to see what they need. You might need to encourage more bouncing, more moving the head and arms, more attitude and personality, using levels, turns and directional changes.
You can even tell people to channel their inner Bruno Mars!

Third move is a short run OTS. Listen to the song and it ill be clear when to do it as the music picks up the beat.
Use this short run to hype and build the energy and then dive right back into the funky dance walk.

Listen to the song so you nail the breaks in the music. Simply yell freeze, or have them posing in cool shapes, both works.

Transitions:
0:00 Clap
0:16 Funky dance walk
0.57 Run OTS
1:04 freeze
1:07 Funky dance walk
1:31 Freeze
1:33 Funky dance walk
2:13 Run OTS
2:19 freeze
2:22 Funky dance walk