Photos: Black Friday Flash Mob and Dance Party at Cherry Creek Mall

On what basically amounts to a national holiday dedicated to crass commercialism -- Black Friday -- at least a few people were gathered to do something at a mall that did not involve hemorrhaging money: It was the Black Friday Flash Mob and Silent Dance Party, where folks converged in...

By Jef Otte

November 26, 2010

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On what basically amounts to a national holiday dedicated to crass commercialism -- Black Friday -- at least a few people were gathered to do something at a mall that did not involve hemorrhaging money: It was the Black Friday Flash Mob and Silent Dance Party, where folks converged in a seemingly random fashion to insert earbuds and get down to the beat of their own drum, simultaneously weirding out passers-by. Our own Bree Davies was there, and she brings back these photos.

Jef Otte

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