Product Description
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.
Review
"Joy Womack: The White Swan is a riveting, bold, and inspiring documentary exploring the life of an American ballerina who paved her own way to success." Andrew Stover, Film Threat
"Womack herself is very much a documentary filmmaker’s dream: outspoken and always willing to take centre stage, she is a force of nature to be reckoned with.... Lively and action-packed throughout its running time, this portrait of a woman bulldozing herself through life, taking no prisoners is impressive." Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia
"A personal, emotive, yet pointedly informative insight into the incredibly demanding world of professional ballet; JoyWomack: The White Swan charts the ballerina's captivating Russian odyssey, from the challenging lows to glorious highs, with stark, beautiful intimacy." Junsui Films
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.56 x 5.28 x 0.55 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : Dina Burlis, Sergey Gavrilov
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 31 minutes
- Release date : January 11, 2022
- Actors : Joy Womack, Nikita Ivanov-Goncharov, Elizabeth Shvedenko
- Studio : Film Movement
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
