“As I became the dancer I became I was lucky enough to start to widen you know at a certain point and I started being the arts guy in the room in a room of you know many things I would get to go to conferences or you know what have you and talk about the role of the arts in society and in an aspirational way as well as a realistic way. And it grew out of so many things that I believed in benefited me coming to a place like New York and ending up at Lincoln Center and understanding the history of Lincoln Center and how that’s wedded to the history of New York City itself. So I started engaging about that particularly on the obvious touch points education for instance whereas the arts in education someone like myself benefited so greatly from having a culturally mature age.”