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Texas native Joy Womack (center) at a lesson at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in January 2012. Womack was the first American to graduate from the Moscow academy, and she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company right after.

American ballerina lobs a $10,000 accusation at the Bolshoi Company

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Texas native Joy Womack was the first American to be accepted to the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. She graduated a year ago, and joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company, which was her childhood dream. A week ago, she quit, telling a Russian newspaper that a director told her to pay $10,000 for a solo.

Bolshoi Ballet director could lose eyesight after acid attack

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Frederic Franklin (1914-2013): Dancing Through the 20th Century

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American Dancers at the Bolshoi Theatre

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Cultural Icon of Russia Reopens

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America’s love of ‘The Nutcracker’

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None of the original artists behind the ballet The Nutcracker are American, yet the US seems to have made The Nutcracker its own. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Alastair Macaulay, dance critic for The New York Times, about the Nutcracker phenomenon.

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Geo quiz, geo answer, and global hit

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For today’s Geo Quiz we wanted to know where ‘The Nutcracker’ ? the ballet ? was first performed in 1892. It’s a center of commerce and culture that, for much of the 20th century, was called Leningrad. The answer to our quiz is St. Petersburg. Today you can find the ballet performed all around the […]