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Firefly

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  • Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
    Ex-professional ballet dancer and teacher
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    London
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    United Kingdom
  1. So sorry to read of her passing. I always loved her designs. Must admit, I booked to see ballets if I saw that Yolanda Sonnabend was the designer. Another link to the MacMillan era gone.
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    Joy Womack

    Ms Womack is certainly skating on very thin ice by openly stating that her partner has issues with 'sobriety' (her words). But not only that, in her last but one blog she goes so far as to blame him and his lack of sobriety, for the injury she has that has caused her to need to fly back to Texas. And, Yes, she has got her own way, after the AD denied her time off to go home to the US, she now has 6 days or so to spend in her home city! How does she do it? When I was dancing, you only got time off for severe injury (I continued dancing on a stress fracture because I was so worried that taking time off would mean I might be replaced) or a death in the family ! But I really think it is beyond the pale to blame her partner for her injury. I think she has a naiive but grandiose view of herself and what she can do in the wider world ( ie wider than her little Kremlin Ballet Youtube world) which is why she thought she could start a Kickstarter 'BalletCon' or whatever it is. Given her already rather blemished reputation as a dancer who is unreliable and is really only out there for number one (herself) I don't think anyone in the ballet world would take it seriously.
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    Joy Womack

    Fraildove, I read that article and was really annoyed, like you. I could not believe that someone had actually compared Womack (whom I'm sure most people outwith the 'Youtube Womack fan club' had never heard of) with Polunin. If they had wanted to compare East with West (which seemed to me to be the twist in the article) they could have used David Hallberg or Xander Parish although they are male and I guess wouldn't have made as good 'copy' for sales. Regarding you comment about wishing someone advising her to be careful about what she says on her blogs... it's been done, many times by well meaning people on the early blog posts. If I remember correctly, she reacted by taking the comments down or replying that she could do what she wanted because it was her blog, her life and something about being 'true' (!) to herself.
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    Joy Womack

    I'm quite new to this forum, although I have a background in ballet. I watched some of the Swan Lake O/O performance - I couldn't bear to watch it all. I watched most of what was posted of the DonQ performances by her. Whilst I think her Kitri is slightly better than her Odette or Odile, I am not wowed by any of them. I thought her Kitri 1st act variation was rather dull instead of the dynamic, energetic vivaciousness that typifies this solo. I just could not get a sense of any personality from any of the roles she played (or maybe I just didn't care for the personality I saw?). Also, I was not that impressed with her technique, I think her turnout is poor (or at least, perhaps when she is tired she cannot hold the turnout she has got). She may have high extensions, but I would go for someone with a more stable and firm core who hits the positions (arms as well as legs) on time rather than sacrifice them for height of leg. I don't think she is a very musical dancer - I have watched her dance in so many solos from her school performances to these recent ones, and I am always hoping that she might just 'get it'. I am not surprised at all that POB did not take her. I am very surprised that she even got an audition. She may want to dance in a company other than the Kremlin, but I am not sure that she will get into a company with a prestigious name (which is what I think Joy wants). She will have to learn that most ballet companies will not let their employees take an ad hoc holiday in the middle of their season, just because the dancer in question has done a couple of debuts and worked hard! (I don't mean to sound harsh, but that is just the latest whine of Joy's and I do think she should be counting her blessings rather than continuing to see the negative side of life) Perhaps someone ought to send her a biography of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company during the 2WW - dancing really was hard then! (This is a link to a 2007 article saying as much - http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/feb/15/dance
  5. I just want to say 'Hello' or 'Ciao' from the UK as an Italian/English ex-professional ballet dancer living in the UK. It is great to find an online forum that has so much information on ballet.
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