Behind the Red Velvet Curtain - An American Ballerina in Russia

Part travel adventure, part ballet drama, part coming-of-age memoir, this book an unflinching, complex, and compassionate true tale of adversity, ambition, and discovery. The narrative is drawn from more than a decade of reporting, interviews, and research by an award-winning journalist.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Joy Womack is a ballerina, currently working at the Paris Opera. She has a combined social media following of approximately 75,000 across all platforms, was featured in a 2021 independent documentary,Joy Womack: The White Swan, and is also the subject of a biopic film,Joika, set to premiere in 2023. Her story has been followed by news outlets around the world, includingThe New York Times,The Moscow Times,Reuters,Time Magazine, theL.A. Times,NBC News.
Elizabeth Shockman is a public radio journalist based in Minnesota with nationally and internationally published work atNPR,PRI,MPR,Reuters,The Moscow Times,BBC, andmany other publications. Elizabeth met Joy while working for Reuters in Moscow and has spent more than 12 years interviewing her for this book.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elizabeth (RTL)/ Womack Shockman, Joy Womack
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781538199374
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9937-4
• Seiten: 274
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Memoirs, Biography: arts & entertainment, Ballet, Biography: arts and entertainment, Classical style, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs