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...ballet class offered for course credit. If Watts has learned anything from her time at Harvard, it’s how difficult it is for high-level dancers to maintain their abilities while trying to earn a degree, she says. Watts’ husband is current NYCB principal Damian Woetzel. In the fall of 2005, Woetzel began working toward a mid-career degree at the Kennedy School of Government while also maintaining his dance career. “Watching my husband try to stay in shape and go to Harvard—well, you try to prepare for a future...
Harvard students love to out-brag one another about their hectic schedules. But FM 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...
...resonances of the mourning and then renewal that the company has had to endure since Balanchine's death. The ballet ends with a vision of heaven, indicated in the score by a beautiful chorale. As always, Robbins skillfully uses some company youngsters: Peter Boal, looking like an archangel, Damian Woetzel, a particularly blithe spirit who joined the troupe last month, and Teresa Reyes, a recent incarnation of Balanchine's leggy ideal. In Memory of . . . ends with a homage to him. Farrell is carried offstage by Duell and Luders in the serene, lyrical "swimming" motion from Chaconne -- also set in Elysian...
...other recipients of Henry awards, which are given annually to United States students for study at Oxford and Cambridge, are Robert K. Woetzel of Columbia and Colin T. Eisler of Yale. Income from the Henry Fund also provides fellowships which enable English students to study at Harvard and Yale...