There are a myriad of things people are passionate about, with the most frequent being sports or school.\u00a0Junior Chris Felicitas has a passion for something a little more abnormal: dancing.<\/p>\n
Felicitas said, \u201cI started dancing in first grade at Saint Edward when my class were having a dance party\u00a0and everyone was impressed with the way I danced. From then on, everyone kept asking me to dance for\u00a0them, even though I didn\u2019t feel like I was very good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
His enthusiasm for this unorthodox sport started in the comfort of his own home. \u201cIt all really started with\u00a0my older brother, RJ, when he began dancing. We never had a dance coach, so we would just watch\u00a0videos from YouTube and practice that way. It was a chain reaction of dancing within my family and\u00a0pretty soon my brother and two cousins all began practicing our own style. We then started a dance group,called Paradigm, and perform at Filipino events and birthday parties. We also have a YouTube channel\u00a0with our biggest hit having 60,000 views.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chris\u2019s unique ability has not gone unnoticed by his peers. Junior Andrew Straessle said, \u201cI think it\u2019s very\u00a0impressive that he is such a talented dancer without any form of coaching. It\u2019s truly amazing how people\u00a0can teach themselves to do something and be really good at it. I believe his greatest quality is his devotion\u00a0to dancing. He will go home and practice for hours trying to get one move right and won\u2019t stop until he\u00a0does.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dancing is a very convenient ability to possess because one might never know when it needs to be\u00a0utilized. If one ever finds oneself approaching a dance circle, just look in and Felicitas will inevitably be\u00a0found inside. \u201cI\u2019ve always been shy to dance in public, but always seem to get stuck in the middle of\u00a0dance circles. I danced in the talent show my freshmen year and was nervous the entire time that I would\u00a0mess up,\u201d said Felicitas.<\/p>\n
Junior John Chase, a frequent viewer of Chris\u2019s skills, said, \u201cHe is quick, strong, smooth, and the rightsize for a good dancer. He is just full of energy and seems to be really enjoying what he does and makes it\u00a0look easy even though it is actually very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many people think dance is just a hobby and only used for purely recreational purposes. For Chris\u00a0Felicitas, dance means much more. \u201cIt is another language to me. I can communicate how I feel without\u00a0using words. I remember when I was upset and would just dance my shoulders away and just let\u00a0everything out. It has saved me from really tough times.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are a myriad of things people are passionate about, with the most frequent being sports or school.\u00a0Junior Chris Felicitas has a passion for something a little more abnormal: dancing. Felicitas said, \u201cI started dancing in first grade at Saint Edward when my class were having a dance party\u00a0and everyone was impressed with the way…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":7680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[215,196,1,193],"tags":[208,184,143],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liftoffnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Christmas-Love-Justin-Bieber-Dance-Choreography-Post-Christmas-Dance.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xfZw-1ZP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}