Remember the woman who wanted to make Sydney dance again? That viral video of a street dance party that was shut down by Vivid Sydney?
Well guess what? Christie Aucamp-Schutte, the woman behind the movement, scored corporate sponsorship to throw a free dance party in Sydney last night, and this time it lasted for three hours.
Speaking to The Music, Aucamp-Schutte said the response from the first video had been "overwhelmingly positive" with "a lot of people supporting [the] idea and wanting to get involved".
"Having politicians like Jess Scully from [Lord Mayor] Clover Moore's team share the video was very encouraging," she said.
After the dance party was shut down Footloose style earlier this month by Destination NSW (Vivid Sydney) staff according to statement by Scully, Aucamp-Schutte said she "wanted to go back and make a bigger street party".
"It's one of the few times in the year where the city is bustling and I wanted to take advantage of it and bring people together."
But this time she had some help from a little-known brand you may or may not have heard of... Coca-Cola.
"Coke contacted me a week or two after the release [of the viral video]. They had seen the video and wanted to make a huge comeback party in Circular Quay with the launch of Coke Energy," Aucamp-Schutte said of the partnership.
Check out footage of the party below.
"It was crazy. Usually it takes five to ten minutes for people to start dancing but this time it was immediate," she told The Music.
"People were dropping their bags on the floor and people stayed for almost three hours. There was one dip in the night where the music got a bit too mellow for the crowd but other than that everyone was going mental. Kids, families, grandparents, Hare Krishnas, you name it - everyone was there. There was true joy in the air it felt like a celebration of life."
It all comes back to Aucamp-Schutte's mission to make Sydney dance again.
"Reclaiming the public space and reconnecting with our fellow human being is what is central to this idea, but this lies with the power of us as individuals," she shared.
"It just takes one person to get a crowd dancing on the street. It's up to all of us to be the first person to take the plunge for what we believe in, whether it involves dancing or not."
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