Joy Womack is a District-trained 16-year-old ballerina who plays the lead in Prokofiev’s “Classical Symphony,” part of this weekend’s Kennedy Center show “Proteges III,” dedicated to the people of Japan. You have been working as the first American dancer to get a three-year contract at the Moscow Bolshoi Academy. Is it hard being the only American?

It’s actually really great now because there are two other Americans, boys, and so we support each other. More and more I find myself learning towards being more Russian than American because I’m there.

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