In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too. Damian Woetzel Read Quote
I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven’t seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven’t seen them before. Damian Woetzel Read Quote
If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you’re dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It’s a unique world. Damian Woetzel Read Quote
When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, ‘I don’t think I’m going to go to ballet class anymore,’ and I looked at him and said, ‘You know, I don’t think I’m going to go to Chinese class anymore.’ Damian Woetzel Read Quote
I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas. Damian Woetzel Read Quote
I frequently go to the ballet, but I don’t miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing. Damian Woetzel Read Quote
Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in. Damian Woetzel Read Quote