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Named for the New York City Ballet’s 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...
...going to move to New York in September and just start waiting in line for eight hours a day,” says the aspiring professional, who has already begun auditioning in New York City between on-campus performances. Luckily, she has a network of friends from Harvard with prior artistic endeavors who have already forged similar paths. “I’m hoping they’ll show me the ropes,” she says...
Holding had decided to take a gap year before coming to Harvard and discover if she was ready for the life of a starving artist. Cutting herself off from her parents financially, she moved to New York City. “I hoped to bridge the divide between high school ‘theater kid’ and professional actor, but the insight was disheartening,” Holding says with a chuckle. “Finding roles in plays, on TV, in commercials, and waitressing in between—it was a struggle...
...sometimes feel that I only have one foot in the theater door,” she says. But this fall, she will be focusing on her art form when she begins her studies in the Graduate Acting Program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. At Tisch, Holding said that she “hopes to gain the tools to make anything—a TV commercial, a soap opera, a dull play—really insightful...
Holding also noted that the Harvard theater community extends to New York City. “It gives you a sense of how great the artists are here, and makes the step to New York more of an adventure than falling into a black hole,” she remarks with a laugh...