FullOut
Harry “Fullout” Weston grew up in Santa Cruz, California, surrounded by his first artistic inspirations, West African dance and drumming. He fell in love with Hip Hop culture at the age of 15, changing his life and setting him on a path of creativity, community engagement, teaching, and mentorship. At the age of 18, Fullout moved to Los Angeles to study dance at UCLA. A year later, in 2009, he was asked to join Versa-Style Dance Company, became a teaching artist for The Flourish Foundation, and a program counselor for the UCLA Summer Dance Theater Intensive. Today, after graduating from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in World Arts and Cultures with a concentration in Dance and a minor in Civic Engagement, and through his work, growth, and dedication, he is still involved in all three entities. He is a principal dancer and the partnerships manager for Versa-Style Dance Company, program supervisor for Versa-Style: Performance. Education. Community. (formerly known as The Flourish Foundation), and director of what is now the Dance/Performing Arts Summer Institute at UCLA.
Throughout his time in LA he has taught, mentored, and created throughout the Los Angeles community. He inherited, directed, and sustained an after school Hip Hop dance program in East LA at Abraham Lincoln HS that still thrives today, he created a Breaking curriculum for the award winning organization Everybody Dance, which also still exists and now offers three levels, and he grew Versa-Style's Teaching Artist Program, which has now brought authentic Hip Hop dance to over 25 LAUSD elementary, middle and high schools, as well as pioneered events such as the Versa-Style Anniversary Festival, a four day Hip Hop and street dance extravaganza that combines education, community building, and the highest level of street dance competition. He has taught in multiple university settings at UCLA, USC, Loyola Marymount, Santa Monica College, and more. Last but not least, he has been a dedicated member of the Hip Hop and street dance community, regularly attending events locally and globally, competing at the highest level in Hip Hop, House, and Popping. But most importantly, he is an actively anti-racist advocate and accomplice, working against systems of oppression locally and nationally, and is eternally grateful to the Black and POC communities who have welcomed him into Hip Hop and street dance culture.
Fullout was on Next Level Team Ghana.
