Damian Woetzel&rsquo;s rise to the&nbsp;top&nbsp;of the ballet world seems straightforward. From his childhood in Boston he demonstrated an aptitude for ballet; by his late teens, he was touring nationally as part of the Los Angeles Ballet; and in the mid-1980s, at 18, he eschewed college to pursue a career as a dancer in New York City. Over the following two decades, Woetzel climbed the New York City Ballet&rsquo;s ranks, first becoming a principal dancer, then a household name. In his mid-30s, with the prospect of&nbsp;retirement looming, Woetzel decided to head up to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Harvard&rsquo;s Kennedy School of Government in 2007 with an M.P.A., a distinction that, a decade later, led to him becoming The Juilliard School&rsquo;s seventh president. On this&nbsp;episode&nbsp;of&nbsp;Table for Two, Woetzel joins host Bruce Bozzi for lunch at IRIS in New York City, where they discuss his early years in New York, former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Gifford&rsquo;s role in motivating him to return to school, and his plan for leading an arts conservatory into the modern age.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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