Joy Womack

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Joy Annabel Womack , Russian Джой Аннабель Вомак (* 1994 in Santa Monica , California ) is an American ballet dancer .

Life

Joy Womack, the daughter of an entrepreneur and an oncologist , grew up pious and sheltered with her eight siblings in a Christian community. Her enthusiasm for dance showed at an early age, so that at the age of 9 she began her training with Yvonne Mounsey, a dancer trained by George Balanchine at the Westside School of Ballet in Santa Monica. Private lessons with the prominent Russian ballet master Yuri Grigoriev were soon added.

In 2006, Womack's family moved to Austin and Womack enrolled at the Vaganova- near Austin School of Classical Ballet . In 2007 she accepted the scholarship offered to her for the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, DC , where she received the traditional, physically and psychologically tough Russian training. However, their performance was assessed as insufficient there. In the summer of 2009 she was able to take part in the master class held by the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in New York under the direction of Nathalia Archipowas. Archipova then asked her to continue her education in Moscow . She accepted the invitation, moved to Moscow and continued her education at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, graduating in 2012 as one of the best. Despite this, she received no roles in the Bolshoi Ballet, so that she finally left the Bolshoi Ballet in 2013, also in view of the intrigues there. In 2014, the director of the Kremlin Ballet Andrei Petrov hired her as a prima ballerina .

Her repertoire includes Giselle and Myrtha in Giselle , Mascha in The Nutcracker , Odette / Odile in Swan Lake , Kitri in Don Quichotte , Gamzatti in La Bayadère , The Pas de Deux by Diana and Acteon , the Pas de Deux from Le Corsaire , the Queen the night in Die Zauberflöte and Princess Budur in Arabian Nights .

Prices

  • Youth America Grand Prix Award , Paris 2011
  • Asian Grand Prix Award , Hong Kong 2013
  • Silver medal International Ballet Competition , Varna 2016

swell

  • Lauren Kay: Go Your Own Way . Pointe Magazine, August-September 2012 (accessed November 1, 2015)
  • Samiha Shafy: Careers - agony and intoxication: Joy Womack is Californian, Sergei Polunin grew up in a poor city in the Ukraine - both live for ballet. Your talent is also a curse . Der Spiegel 44/2015, pp. 134-138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joy Womack, Teen Dancer, To Be First American Graduate Of Bolshoi Ballet Academy In Russia , HuffingtonPost, April 9, 2012 (accessed November 2, 2015).
  2. ^ Clifford J. Levy: Young Americans Embrace Rigors of the Bolshoi . The New York Times, May 31, 2010 (accessed November 2, 2015).
  3. ↑ An American ballerina accuses the Bolshoi leadership of corruption . Izvestia , November 13, 2013 (Russian, accessed November 2, 2015).
  4. ↑ Simon Shuster: American Ballerina Quits Bolshoi, Accuses Theater of Extortion . Time, Nov. 13, 2013 (accessed November 2, 2015).
  5. ↑ a b c State Kremlin Palace: Joy Womack ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 2, 2015). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kremlinpalace.org
  6. ↑ Joy Womack Bio (accessed November 2, 2015)
  7. ↑ IBC Varna 2016. In: www.varna-ibc.org. Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Womack, Joy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Womack, Joy Annabel (full name); Вомак, Джой Аннабель (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California