How Vegan Ballerina Joy Womack Of Paris Opera Ballet Nourishes Her Busy Life
As a longtime ballet fan, I first heard of Joy Womack several years ago as only the second American to graduate from the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow (graduating at the top of her class), and the first American to be appointed a soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet. Soon after that, she moved to the Kremlin Ballet as a principal dancer, where she danced Odette/Odile, Gamzatti in La Bayadère, and Masha in The Nutcracker. Leaving Russia in 2018, Womack has since danced with Boston Ballet and Universal Ballet, most recently landing at Paris Opera Ballet. Her unlikely journey from Texas to Moscow to the most renowned stages around the world was captured on a documentary called Joy Womack: The White Swan (2021).
