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WENDY WHELAN | 
| WENDY WHELAN's BIO:
Wendy Whelan was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of three she began taking dance classes with Virgina Wooton, a local teacher, and at age eight she performed as a mouse with the Louisville Ballet in The Nutcracker. Ms. Whelan studied at the Louisville Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet before joining New York City Ballet in 1986. She was promoted to soloist in 1989 and to Principal Dancer in 1991. At NYCB, Ms. Whelan has danced featured roles in nearly all the Balanchine repertory, as well as in many ballets by Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins, and she created leading roles in ballets by Robbins, Martins, William Forsythe, Alexei Ratmansky, Jorma Elo, Ulysses Dove, Edwaard Liang, Albert Evans, Kevin O’Day, Christopher D’Amboise, and Boris Eifman. Ms. Whelan has created leading roles in six ballets by Christopher Wheeldon, and she has performed as a guest artist with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden and the Maryinsky Ballet at the Maryinsky Theater.
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Wendy Whelan
Photo by David Michalek
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