Blackness. Silence. Then – glow.
Casting perpendicularly from above onto the wooden stage, the light shimmers onto the dark outlines that emerge as the music fades in. The dancers break, lock, and pop to the rhythm, flowing with ferocious grace. Amongst them, Chad Hara (COM ’15).
On stage, while performing with Fusion (BU’s Hip Hop Dance Group), Chad pulls off an act of confidence that almost intimidates you, yet once you meet him it is impossible to miss the smile casting on his face. “I live on the edge so that I can keep saying YOLO,” he jokes, jittering to the side making sure he has made his friends laugh.
Majoring in Advertising and minoring in Deaf Studies, Chad willingly admits what we all silently think when asked what our dream job is, “I just want to be happy – if I have to marry someone rich, I’ll do it!”
But actually speaking, his passion for advertising spurs from his pursuit of a balance between creativity and business, finding that, like dance, advertising is the best medium to express himself. As for his interest in sign language, he simply asserts, “I took sign language as my language requirement and fell in love, not only the language, but also with the culture.”
Aside from academics, Chad is a choreographer and a part of the promotion team for Fusion. His dance calling originated in high school when, faced with no attractive hip hop opportunities in Hawaii, he taught himself some dance moves and fully dove into dancing in his freshman year of college.
When he’s not designing the overall artistic set or piecing together stylish moves, Chad says you’ll find him “’harassing’ (being overly sarcastic) with his friends… it’s what I do best”. Or sitting in his apartment in South, listening to really sad music, alone, accompanied by thirty jars of Nutella. Or watching He’s Just Not That Into You and Mean Girls – yes, when it comes to movies, he’s truly in touch with his feminine side, a romantic at heart. “They’re all chick flicks, I know it… and I love it,” Chad says, breaking out in laughter.
While dancing seems to be his artsy talent, he does admit his secret talent is his ability to be really mean to people and still get them to be his friends – probably what he meant by “harassing”. As for an interesting fact, he shares he does not eat anything that walks in four legs – and no, that does not mean he is a vegetarian.
More importantly, when asked what he would do if he were filthy rich, he blatantly answered, “I better have a golden toilet”.