Sometimes, change happens all at once. Last year, The Juilliard School, one of the country’s top conservatories for music, dance and drama, got not one new leader but three. Damian Woetzel, a former star at New York City Ballet, took the reins as Juilliard’s new president, the first in the institution’s history to come from […]
A dancer is taking over Juilliard: Damian Woetzel will be the school’s next president, starting in July 2018. It’s just the latest feat for the former New York City Ballet star who’s racked up an impressive list of accomplishments since retiring from the stage in 2008. After earning a master’s degree in public administration from […]
Damian Woetzel is power blasting through different orbits at once. It seems to me that the style, ebullience, clarity, and commitment he showed onstage as a dancer at New York City Ballet has completely transferred to his activities offstage and behind the scenes. Here are some of the ways he’s shown leadership. He’s (re)created a […]
Damian Woetzel’s enthusiasm for dance is contagious. As artistic director of Vail International Dance Festival, he engages and educates the audience with each introduction to each dance. On Monday night, in his zeal to give us the experience of dancing to live music, he even got the whole crowd of 1,300 or so on its […]
The 92NY program aims to show how Paul Taylor’s experimental 1957 piece “Seven New Dances” laid the foundation for his later “kinetic” work.
It’s unsurprising that someone with Tiler Peck’s energy and drive simply can’t stand still.
Winners of the Dance Magazine Awards, from 1954 to the present
A review of Alicia Graf Mack’s first five years at the helm of The Juilliard School’s dance division—she is its youngest and first African American head—reveals that her 2018 appointment was an undeniably historic event. It has signaled a paradigm shift both in terms of race and representation and the school’s pedagogical philosophy.
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