Jennifer Whalen

Jennifer Whalen trained at Hollywood Beach School of Ballet under Linda Strangio Herberg and at Gustafson Dance in Santa Barbara.  She also participated on full scholarship at the following summer intensives  -The Royal Ballet School in London, San Francisco Ballet and The Kirov Ballet. 

Jennifer started her career at the age of 14 at State Street Ballet and at the age of 17 joined American Ballet Theatre where she was in the Corps de Ballet and did corps and soloist parts for seventeen years. 

She was the gold medal winner at Youth American Grand Prix in New York, 1st place winner of the Performing Arts Spotlights Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Center in Los Angeles, she won the Santa Barbara Classical Ballet Competition and a competitor in the 3rd Annual Japan Ballet Festival. 

Jennifer has been featured in Discount Dance Magazine and Dance Distributor Magazine. She was in Black Swan, a Jessie Harris music video, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, and a swan in a Blackberry commercial. 

Jennifer is currently a teacher at Greenwich Ballet Academy in Connecticut and does substitute teaching in New York and private coaching  She has also done several Master Classes around the country .