Word: balletic
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...found someone whose schedule may just trump a round of dining hall one-upmanship. Damian Woetzel, a master’s degree in public administration candidate at the Kennedy School of Government, takes classes at Harvard in addition to being a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and running a summer arts festival in Colorado. FM caught up with the dreamy dancer in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum before he had to leave to meet New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
...that article too. Within my repertoire in the New York City Ballet, there is a big tap number from “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.” We run the gamut with different choreographers who aren’t necessarily what you would think of as traditional ballet choreographers...
It’s both. I’m in a mid-career program, and most people have been out of school for many years, which levels the playing field. As an administrator, I run a school in New York, I’ve run my own ballet groups, and a large arts festival. I find a lot of the skill sets that are supposed to be honed here at the Kennedy School are exactly where I’ve been working, so I felt ready for this sort of thing...
...graduation day, I have to go to New York very fast because that evening, I’m performing at the NYC Ballet in honor of Lincoln Kirstein. I’ll get my diploma, grab a box lunch, and head to New York. After that, I’ll dance for another year, and I’m running the arts festival and my school. I want to start bridging these worlds where I can use the skills and interests that have been awakened by my time here...
...funny, certainly; bizarre, yes; but also a far cry from the formal, unbroken Surrealist veneer of, say, Luis Buñuel’s early films. Another sequence early in the play featured a parodic ballet to grandiose music, about on par with the kind of humor you would see in a commercial during the Super Bowl. If anything, the show was unpretentious...