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the allegations, stating, "...If she knows something, let her name those people. Why smear the theater like that?", others, such as
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company that caters specifically to dancers and performance athletes. As of Oct 2021, Project Prima was no longer active and the URL redirects to Womack's official website. She modeled for Cloud and
Victory in 2014. She was a Gaynor Girl Pro Ambassador for
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Since 2022, Joy Womack has worked with Act’ble, an innovative modular system pointe shoe brand, based in
Karlsruhe, Germany. In November 2023, Act’ble released a collaborative dance film with Joy Womack titled
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Kremlin Ballet Theatre of Moscow. She left the company in 2017. In 2018, she was a principal dancer with the Universal Ballet in
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itself; she performed despite needing surgery for a bone injury. She received the surgery later after a parishioner at her
English-language church in Moscow offered to pay.
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