{"id":52,"date":"2025-09-25T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/25\/will-thilly-breakdances-at-townhall\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:24:00","slug":"will-thilly-breakdances-at-townhall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/25\/will-thilly-breakdances-at-townhall\/","title":{"rendered":"We chatted with the middle aged guy who went viral for break-dancing at a New Jersey town hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you’re trying to change the world, or at least a New Jersey<\/a> town, sometimes you’ve gotta go big. For Will Thilly<\/a>, a man running as an Independent for the Cranford Township Committee, he believes in being anything but conventional\u2014at least in terms of grabbing attention.<\/p>

A clip of Thilly addressing the current public town hall<\/a> committee went viral recently on social media, but not necessarily for his viewpoint on taxes or any of his other political ideas. It was his dancing. Thilly shimmies on up to the podium and is asked by Mayor Terrence Curran to state his name and address for the record. Thilly seemingly ignores this request as he has some popping and locking to do. He holds his finger up as if to say, “One second,” as the mayor reminds him, “Mr. Thilly, I’ve started your time.” The audience is smiling, some with their heads in their hands. He turns to them and asks, “Wanna see me do the back spin?”<\/p>

(The Washington Post <\/em>clip on Instagram is cut down for time, but in the same clip posted on Thily’s page, the Rocky<\/em> theme song is added and he vamps a bit longer. )<\/p>\n

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