Career
She is 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. Born in California and one of nine children, she began attending the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2009 after Academy teachers noticed her at that year"s summer intensive. She was fifteen years old at the time.
During her first year at the Academy, Womack was among a group of students selected to perform for a regular Bolshoi audience in a special gala, along with the stars of the Bolshoi Ballet itself.
She performed despite needing surgery for a bone injury. Womack"s classical repertoire includes the roles of Giselle in Giselle, Masha in The Nutcracker, the pas de deux from Diana and Acteon, and Princess Budur in Thousand and One Nights.
In November 2013, Womack announced in an interview with Известия that she was leaving the Bolshoi Ballet, which she claimed was fraught with corruption. During the interview, she made allegations of extortion from an unnamed director in exchange for a solo part in a performance in September of that year.Although some dancers, such as Alexander Petukhov, denied the allegations stating, "..If she knows something, let her name those people.
Why smear the theater like that?" others, such as Natalia Vyskubeno, supported Womack"s accountant
Womack herself described this time as "..like breaking up with your first love."
As of 2015, Womack is currently a principal dancer with the Kremlin Ballet Theater in Moscow.
