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Fuller began dancing when he was nine years old after taking part in the San Francisco Ballet Theater’s performance of “The Nutcracker...
...prima ballerina, the prize is given each year to the student who has achieved excellence in the field of dance. This year that prize goes to Fuller, a senior from California with numerous Harvard dance performances under his belt and a job with a professional company, Ballet Austin, lined up for next year...
James C. Fuller ’10 walks like a ballet dancer, bouncing up on the balls of his feet with each step, even in everyday tennis shoes. In his dancing shoes he is even more airborne, a trait recently celebrated when the Office for the Arts awarded him the Suzanne Farrell Dance Award...
...Companies would come through Orange County and they would need little boys to sort of run around on stage for little character scenes,” Fuller says, “and those were fun so my parents thought, well, let’s try some ballet classes...
Fuller was heavily encouraged to continue with ballet because of the severe shortage of male dancers in the ballet world. He soon became so serious that he considered skipping college and going straight from his senior year of high school into a professional dance company. “My plan had been to go straight into company” Fuller says. “So college was a big shift...