by Zoe G. Phillips | Apr 1, 2025 | News, The Latest
The ballet world first learned about Joy Womack in 2009, when she moved from Texas to Moscow to study at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. She was 15, unaccompanied by a parent or an interpreter, and equipped only with leotards and steely determination. She had one goal: to...
by Claudia Bauer | Nov 7, 2022 | News, The Latest
Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, dancers around the world have held dozens of benefit performances for the Ukrainian people. Now Xander Parish, who left Russia and his principal position at the Mariinsky Ballet after the invasion (he is currently dancing with...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 2, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
Many ballet films canonize the careers of dancers long retired from the stage. But that’s not the case for Joy Womack, who at just 26 has not one, but two films in the works based on her life. Womack made a splash early on as the first American to graduate from...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 21, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. World Ballet Day 2019 Is Here! Like us, you might feel like every day is World Ballet Day, but that doesn’t mean we’re not excited for the all-day live stream event...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 29, 2019 | News, Profiles
Summer means promotions announcements, and dancers transitioning from one company to another. And while we’ve already shared some updates with you (see San Francisco Ballet here and here, American Ballet Theatre here), more news is being released each day....
by Rachel Hellwig | Feb 5, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
Need an excuse for a YouTube ballet break? Probably not, but just in case, here are videos to celebrate some of this month’s off-the-beaten-path holidays. Lame Duck Day (February 6) Did you know that February 6 is Lame Duck Day? “Lame duck” can only...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Oct 9, 2018 | Career, Profiles, Trending
Joy Womack is no stranger to the road less traveled. As the first American graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and first American woman to join the Bolshoi Ballet, the California native is accustomed to going out on a limb. Now at 24, after spending last season as...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 25, 2015 | Company Life
Some of ballet’s biggest stars have donated signed pointe shoes to raise money for victims of last April’s horrific earthquake in Nepal. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed over 9,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. And while the disaster...