{"id":74738,"date":"2020-02-06T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-high-school-students-dance-moves-go-viral\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:45:08","slug":"durango-high-school-students-dance-moves-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-high-school-students-dance-moves-go-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango High School student\u2019s dance moves go viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3d26dbab-8c2f-4517-84d8-3e9c6cd22e4c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" alt=\"Durango High School sophomore Adam Kalk with the Durango High School dance team, the Demonettes, performs with members of the girls varsity team during a talent show Friday. The performance went viral, and, since then, Adam has been featured by Albuquerque and Denver TV news stations.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango High School sophomore Adam Kalk with the Durango High School dance team, the Demonettes, performs with members of the girls varsity team during a talent show Friday. The performance went viral, and, since then, Adam has been featured by Albuquerque and Denver TV news stations.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Bryan Kalk<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adam Kalk, a sophomore with Down syndrome, performed \u201cWatch Me (Whip\/Nae Nae)\u201d in the high school talent show Jan. 31 with the girls varsity basketball team. The routine was captured by a member of the high school staff in a Facebook video. By Sunday night, the video had been seen about 50,000 times, said Adam\u2019s father, Bryan Kalk.<\/p>\n<p>Adam has no formal dance training, but music has been a therapy outlet for him since he was about 5, Kalk said.<\/p>\n<p>Adam watches music videos online and then imitates the timing and moves of the performers, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is basically self-taught, and that\u2019s the coolest part,\u201d Kalk said.<\/p>\n<p>The first time Adam saw himself on TV, he was fixated by it, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was like: \u2018Hey, what am I doing on there,\u2019\u201d Kalk recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Adam, who is nonverbal, has been excited to share news stories about the performance with his classmates, his father said.<\/p>\n<p>The online momentum of the video has continued to build, attracting more than 550,000 views as of Wednesday. Kalk said he expected the video to hit 1 million views in part because it has been so well received by social media users who say it brightens their day.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_tagline\">Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durango High School sophomore Adam Kalk with the Durango High School dance team, the Demonettes, performs with members of the girls varsity team during a talent show Friday. The performance went viral, and, since then, Adam has been featured by Albuquerque and Denver TV news stations.Courtesy of Bryan Kalk Adam Kalk, a sophomore with Down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2045,592,155,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disabled","tag-durango-high-school","tag-education","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74738"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}