While the actual night of FC’s 30th homecoming is a much anticipated celebration, there is one event during homecoming week that is exclusive to the FC students.

The event is the annual King Dance and your senior king nominees are Jordan Castro, Collin Winegarden, Nick Fontes, Chris Grossman and Aaron DeWolf. For 30 minutes, the entire student body sat in shock as they witnessed the kings get down in ways that have they have never been down in before.

With each nominee having the ability to choose which song they wanted to dance to, the kings used this opportunity to express themselves through funky body movement. Featured songs included “Shake it Off,” “Billie Jean,” “Ain’t no Mountain High Enough,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “The Real Slim Shady“.

This dance was no easy feat for the king court. Hours of practicing choreography was required to ensure that the maximum level of entertainment was received from their performance.

Having to stay after school countless days, Winegarden shared just how much work was put into the dance.

“We were told we were going to have a month to prepare, but it ended up only being like two weeks,” Winegarden said. “We were here for about two hours everyday after school practicing. It was a lot of hard work and trying to focus, but it was totally worth it.”

The king dance gives the nominees one last chance to truly connect with their class before they graduate. The kings learn a lot about each other and form close bonds with one another.

Having such an exciting experience, Fontes described his favorite aspect of the dance and shared what he has taken away from it.

“My favorite part of the whole thing was just being able to hang out with such a great group of guys,” Fontes said. “All the kings are just really close, you could tell by the way we dance with each other. The camaraderie and being able to entertain the whole class was awesome. I really see it as a once in a life time experience and i am going to hold onto it.”

Majority of the king and queen nominees have grown up together since elementary school. Queen nominee, Gaby Siqueiros, ’15, stated what it is that she enjoyed about watching the kings dance.

“I really enjoyed watching the kings, people I have known since the seventh grade, dance on stage,” Siqueiros said. “It was fun to watch them do things that they would not normally do in public. It really took them out of their comfort zone, but they nailed it.”

After their first on stage performance, the kings brought their queens on stage to serenade them with homemade pickup lines. Fontes used his first name and his witty mind to create a pickup line that brought laughter to the whole crowd.

“If I had a nickel for everything I don’t like about you,” Fontes said. “I would be Nickeless {Nicholas}.”

To conclude the show, the kings then returned to the stage for an encore. Sophomore Daniel Ayers, stated what his favorite part of the whole event was.

“My favorite part of the event was when the kings said their famous pickup lines,” Ayers said. “I could not stop laughing the whole time. My favorite line was Dewolf’s ‘six reasons’ line.”

The 30th annual homecoming will be on the north field at 7 p.m., Oct. 31. Homecoming candidates will be introduced during the pre-game at 6:30 p.m., and the homecoming court announced during half-time.

This writer can be reached via Twitter: @Nhojnamood.

For more on homecoming, read the Oct. 29 article, Queens got talent, sashay down the runway (VIDEO). For more features, read the Oct. 30 article, Unexpected journey leads Solis to campus.