From LMU
If that poppin' contestant on the popular contest show, "So You Think You Can Dance," looks familiar to his peers on a certain Westchester campus, well, there's a reason: He's usually a 20-year-old engineering physics student from Houston. But this Lion has proved he has sufficient moves to get to the finals of the nationally televised dance competition. He says he started dancing relatively late -- at age 15 -- and was just smitten. His speciality is the street genre known as "popping," with its swift and sometimes powerful relaxing and contracting of muscles to produce "pops" or jerks in the arms, legs, chest and neck. He was advanced by judges in the early rounds of the Fox-TV show after he did an impressive audition last year but could not compete because he was felled by pneumonia; he returned and at one point was paired with another dancer and classmate. He went on, she did not.
Photo: Phillip Chbeeb, engineering physics student and dance show contestant
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