by Wendy Perron | Apr 2, 2015 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. A striking dancer with ultra-classical elegance, Joy Womack, who turns 21 in April, is the first American woman to graduate from the domestic program of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow in over...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Joy Womack just signed a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet, becoming the first American woman ever to dance for the iconic Russian company. The historic move is especially significant because Joy wasn’t always a prodigy destined for ballet greatness. As a...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ballet documentaries, why are you so few and far between? We have to wait until next summer for the documentary Black Ballerina, which promises a candid discussion of racial disparities in the ballet world. And the latest buzz— Another Adventure, featuring Joy...