HOT-FOOTED youngster Mason Davenport has become the star of a dance music supremo’s latest video.
Mason, 9, from Dalton, is the sole performer in the video for Armand Van Helden’s new single Ski Hard.
The Moldgreen Community Primary School pupil was plucked from a dance show at Penistone Grammar School in July by producer Dave Aspinall.
In the video, which will be played on top TV stations across the world, Mason dons 80s-style clothing and struts his stuff in a derelict warehouse in Bradford.
Mason and his sister Logan, 13, attend Georgie School of Dance in Shelley.
Mum Cathy Davenport, 39, said: “I’m just so proud of both children and everything they do.
“When his dance teacher rang and asked to pass on our phone number I was jumping around the kitchen.
“Mason gets teased because he dances and this is one in the eye for them!”
World-famous American DJ Armand van Helden performed at Afterparty club night at Bates’s Mill, Queen Street South, in May.
Van Helden’s hits include U Don’t Know Me and a remix of Tori Amos’s Professional Widow.
Ski Hard (featuring Christian Rich) is released on Southern Fried Records on October 13.
Watch Mason in Armand Van Helden’s new video
Armand Van Helden was born in Boston, United States
He bought a drum machine at the age of 13 and started DJ-ing two years later
He moonlighted as a club DJ in Boston while working for a law firm
In 1991 he quit his day job and worked as a remixer and a DJ at the city’s Loft nightclub
He received no cash for the hit Professional Widow remix
He has worked with the Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Puff Daddy and Janet Jackson
