article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Joy Joy Womack is taking part in Joy Womack first ballet class of the day at Kremlin Ballet Theatre, kicking Joy Womack legs up to Joy Womack head, jumping and spinning across the room.
article_snippet.sent: After class, Joy Womack eats boiled sweets, one after another -- boiled sweets are a cheap form of energy.
article_snippet.sent: 20-year-old American dancer, left Joy Womack parents and eight brothers and sisters behind when Joy Womack arrived in Russia six years ago, aged 15, speaking no Russian.
article_snippet.sent: Joy Womack studied at Bolshoi Ballet Academy and was one of the first Americans accepted from the school into the company.
article_snippet.sent: But in 2013 Joy Womack left under a cloud -- media reports suggested Joy Womack had claimed Joy Womack was asked by an unnamed Boshoi official to pay $10,000 to dance in even small roles.
article_snippet.sent: When 20-year-old American dancer left Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2013, Womack joined the Kremlin Ballet Theatre where 20-year-old American dancer still works, aged 20, as a principal ballerina; dancing close to the Russian president's office, next to the cathedrals inside the red walls of the Kremlin.
highlights_snippet.sent: Joy Womack studied at Bolshoi Ballet Academy but left in cloud of controversy .