Nationality American Name Joy Womack Website www.joywomack.com | Employer Kremlin Ballet Theater Occupation Ballet dancer Role Ballet Dancer | |
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Awards Grand Prix AwardAsian Grand Prix Award Spouse Nikita Ivanov-Goncharov (m. 2012) | ||
Joy womack talks to dance channel tv
Joy Womack is an American ballet dancer. She is the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program, and the first American woman to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet. She is currently a principal dancer at the Kremlin Ballet Theater in Russia.
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- Joy womack talks to dance channel tv
- Joy Womack Varna Diana and Acteon
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards
- References
Joy Womack Varna Diana and Acteon
Early life and education
Born in California and raised in California and Texas, one of nine children, she trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet before attending the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2009 after Academy teachers noticed her at that year's summer intensive. She was fifteen years old at the time.
During her first year at the Academy, Womack was among a group of students selected to perform for a regular Bolshoi audience in a special gala, along with the stars of the Bolshoi Ballet itself; she performed despite needing surgery for a bone injury. She received the surgery later after a parishioner at her English-language church in Moscow offered to pay, despite an offer from her parents to fly her home for surgery.
Career
Womack's classical repertoire includes the roles of Giselle in Giselle, Masha in The Nutcracker, the pas de deux from Diana and Acteon, and Princess Budur in Thousand and One Nights.
In November 2013, Womack announced in an interview with Известия that she was leaving the Bolshoi Ballet, which she claimed was fraught with corruption. During the interview, she made allegations of extortion from an unnamed director in exchange for a solo part in a performance in September of that year. Although some dancers, such as Alexander Petukhov, denied the allegations stating, "...If she knows something, let her name those people. Why smear the theater like that?" others, such as Natalia Vyskubeno, supported Womack's account. Womack herself described this time as "...like breaking up with your first love."
As of 2016, Womack is currently a prima dancer with the Kremlin Ballet Theater in Moscow.
Womack is also the founding member of The Prima Bar, a supplement company that caters specifically to dancers and performance athletes.
Awards
In 2011, she was awarded the Grand Prix Award at the Youth America Grand Prix in Paris, France.
In 2013, she was awarded the Asian Grand Prix Award at the Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong.
In July 2016 won silver medal at the International Ballet Competition at Varna, Bulgaria.