[3] When he was 17, he competed USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, due to the scholarships and dance company contracts offered there.
Furlan, who had little experience in solos, was eliminated after the first round, but was spotted by Edward Villella and Roma Sosenko, who offered him a scholarship at the Miami City Ballet School.
[3] Furlan joined the Miami City Ballet in 2012, the year Lourdes Lopez succeeded Villella as artistic director.
[3] At the company, he danced works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, John Cranko, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Liam Scarlett and Richard Alston.
[5] The previous year, three male principal dancers of the company had departed over sexual misconduct, in addition to Joaquin de Luz's retirement.
2,[3][10] Robbins' Dances at a Gathering,[3] In G Major and Concertino,[6][11] Peck's Everywhere We Go,[3] Wheeldon's Polyphonia,[3] Ratmansky's Russian Seasons,[12] and as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake.