Jennifer Penney (born 1946) is a Canadian ballerina and a former principal dancer with the

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. Jennifer Penney was born in 1946 in

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, British Columbia, Canada. She studied there with

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and

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, and then at the

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from 1962–63. Penney joined the Royal Ballet in 1963 and became a principal in 1970. Dancing one of the four lead roles in

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's 1980 ''

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'' for the Royal Ballet, the critic

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wrote of "her beautiful line, her always easy technical command". Penney retired in 1988 and returned to British Columbia.

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