Curiosidades

Retired from dancing in 2008.

Along with Sarah Jessica Parker, he hosted Ovation's 2010 "Battle of the Nutcrackers" on cable television.

He and his wife Heather Watts were in attendance at the world premiere of "An American In Paris".

He taught courses on performing arts and the law at Harvard (while sometimes costumed in jeans and a retro corduroy jacket with imagined elbow patches).

He was named President of the Julliard School, replacing Joseph W. Polisi in May 2017.

Woetzel was made a Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet in 1989 until his retirement from the stage in 2008.

Both he and his wife personally appeared in the 1993 Macaulay Culkin production of "The Nutcracker".

In December 2012, Woetzel co-produced the tribute to legendary ballerina Natalia Makarova as part of the 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors, and in 2014 he co-produced the tribute to ballerina Patricia McBride. For his contributions to the Emmy-Award winning CBS special, Woetzel was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the 2012-2013 Primetime Emmy Awards.

He holds a Master in Public Administration Degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He and his wife have both done work to educated those on ballet at Harvard.

Woetzel received the Harvard Arts Medal in April 2015. In July 2012 Woetzel was honored with the inaugural Gene Kelly Legacy Award - an honor jointly created by the Dizzy Feet Foundation and the Estate of Gene Kelly in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kelly's birth. Woetzel serves on the artists committee of the Kennedy Center Honors, the Knight Foundation's National Arts Advisory Committee, and was a member of the Harvard University Task Force on the Arts. Woetzel holds an MPA degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In the fall of 2010 he was a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School where he co-taught a course on performing arts and the law. In November 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, where he has worked on creating the Turnaround Arts Program, which now brings arts education to some of the nation's most challenged school districts. Woetzel serves on the board of directors of NY City Center, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and Sing for Hope, and on the advisory board of Define American.

He's been a guest artist with the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.

He attended the 2009 World Science Festival's Opening Gala at Alice Tully Hall June 10, 2009 in New York City.