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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...
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...
...watched “Just Got Paid,” the opening number, Caitlin D. Driscoll ’11 scribbled on a notepad. Driscoll, the director of TAPS, has been a competitive Irish step dancer since the age of four. Her involvement hasn’t dwindled since coming to Harvard. In addition to working with TAPS, she is on the executive board of Corcairdhearg, the Harvard College Irish dancers. After the dancers finished, she said, “You have to rock it out. This is a rock-out piece.” And when a troupe member...
Throughout the rehearsal, it was clear that every group member was invested in TAPS. Each dancer, not only Driscoll, contributed their thoughts as to how they should arrange themselves, and the dancers were eager to help each other master complicated steps. At one point, M.G. Prezioso ’13 was worried. “I keep ending a beat early,” she said. Her peers were quick to help her. Kurdyla explained to her, rapidly tapping her feet and finishing with her right foot behind her left, “It?...
...It’s a chance to try something new and become a better dancer,” Terrelonge said...