Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel is a former principal dancer at the New York City
Ballet and the current president of the world’s most prestigious
performing arts conservatory, The Juilliard School. After an
illustrious career as one of the world’s foremost male dancers,
Woetzel went on to earn a degree from Harvard, serve on Barack
Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and direct a series
of major arts programmes, including at The Aspen Institute. As
president of Juilliard since 2018, he hopes to one day make the
school tuition-free. Woetzel spoke with Monocle’s Emma Nelson
about discovering his passion young, his jeté-like rise in ballet
and the role of art as a public good.


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