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Episode: Don't Fit In, Rise Above: Harper Watters on being black, gay, and a soloist with the Houston Ballet
Description: Harper Watters is a soloist with the Houston Ballet - the fourth largest dance company in the United States.
Harper has stood out his whole life. His parents are white. He's gay. He's a ballet dancer. He doesn't fit.
When Harper was growing up, not fitting in was hard. People stared at him. He was scared of being bullied. But as cliché as it sounds, it was when Harper learned to use his differences, to embrace them, that he found serious success as a dancer. And as a person.
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