Ballet

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. 

At 19 years old, J Ryan Carroll apprenticed with Laura Alonso's Clasico de la Havana (Havana, Cuba). He went on to dane with Wes Chapman's Alabama Ballet as a company member, American Repertory Ballet dancing soloist and principal roles, Ballet Cocierto de Puerto Rico as a Principal Soloist and Les Ballet Grandiva as a company member (male roles). Some guest artist credits include North West Florida Ballet, Portland Ballet, MObile Ballet, Western Ballet Theater of PR, CoDa21 (San Juan), and Ajkun Ballet Theater (NYC).