Joy Womack: The White Swan

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Joy Womack: The White Swan

2021

1h 30m

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Biography

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The film follows several years in the life of Joy Womack, 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. Joy grew up in a typical American family. She always wanted to be a ballet dancer and moved to Russia when she was 15 to follow her dream. Without a word of Russian, not completely fit for the physical requirements of Russian ballet dancers, Joy shows her strength and dedication to ballet and accomplishing her dreams. We follow Joy's personal and professional life: from her daily challenges, injuries, performances to becoming a ballet dancer with Bolshoi Theatre group and then prima ballerina of Kremlin Ballet, where she has performance of her lifetime -- Swan Lake, before closing this chapter of her life and leaving Russia to pursue new opportunities.

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

12/09/2021

Womack comes across as incredibly adaptable, which may be the film's ultimate point.

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Marie Asner

Phantom Tollbooth

12/17/2021

4/5

Swan Lake never looked better.

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Neely Swanson

Easy Reader (California)

12/13/2021

Watch it and then watch it again. Every frame is choreographed; this film is a living being.

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Andrew Stover

Film Threat

12/10/2021

8/10

As a movie about the human spirit, the documentary is powerful and recognizable in that we all have a dream, and it takes time and effort to fulfill any dream, as demonstrated by Joy Womack's perseverance.

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Wendy Shreve

Featuring Film

12/09/2021

Does her obsessiveness result in Womack achieving her dream? The reader will have to see this intriguing portrayal of this young woman who risks it all.

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The film follows several years in the life of Joy Womack, 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. Joy grew up in a typical American family. She always wanted to be a ballet dancer and moved to Russia when she was 15 to follow her dream. Without a word of Russian, not completely fit for the physical requirements of Russian ballet dancers, Joy shows her strength and dedication to ballet and accomplishing her dreams. We follow Joy's personal and professional life: from her daily challenges, injuries, performances to becoming a ballet dancer with Bolshoi Theatre group and then prima ballerina of Kremlin Ballet, where she has performance of her lifetime -- Swan Lake, before closing this chapter of her life and leaving Russia to pursue new opportunities.

Director: Dina Burlis, Sergey Gavrilov
Producer: Dina Burlis, Sergey Gavrilov
Screenwriter: Dina Burlis, Dina Burlis
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Reason8 Films, Joy Film
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 10, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 10, 2021
Runtime: 1h 30m

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