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...decision to go to college was made when, his senior year of high school, Fuller received a scholarship to travel from Orange County, Calif., to Boston to spend a year training with the Boston Ballet. While living in Boston, he attended Brookline High School and rediscovered his love of education...
...Fuller explains. “There was a lot of give and take and exchange of ideas and it was just very exciting for me. I guess at that point I also started to discover modern dance and other ways of approaching dance. I started think that maybe ballet isn’t the only thing of value out there in life and that maybe I should give myself a chance to look around a little bit before I entrenched myself in a career...
Despite this decision, Fuller still chose to take a year off between high school and Harvard, spending a year dancing as an apprentice for the Portland Ballet. Despite this stint with a professional company, Fuller attributes most of his growth as a dancer to the time he spent performing at Harvard with the Harvard Ballet Company as well as the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company...
This experience will help him next year in his role as a full company member of Ballet Austin, located in Austin, Texas. There, not only will his days consist of rigorous ballet classes, but he will also be performing in the company’s season of classical and contemporary works. Fuller is quick to describe this future employment as normal, despite the fact that it’s far from the average post-college...
...part of the Ballet Austin is that there’s a fairly long layoff,” Fuller explains. “I’d be interested in working with choreographers who are still finding their voice. I feel like in some ways that’s the most fruitful artistic relationship. It’s very open, very malleable...