Jenna Roberts

Roberts was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, and trained at the Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy in Newcastle, Australia, and the Royal Ballet Upper School.[https://www.brb.org.uk/profile/jenna-roberts "Jenna Roberts"], Birmingham Royal Ballet, retrieved 29 October 2015 Joining Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2003, she quickly rose through the company. In 2006 she starred as Juliet for the "Ballet Hoo!" project, a collaboration between BRB, Channel 4, the charity Youth at Risk and local authorities.Turner, Susan. [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:BEM1&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1391EC712F755678&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggdocs&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA "Our teen dancers not half Bard!"], Birmingham Mail, 29 September 2006. She suffered a setback after a severe injury in 2007, returning to achieve a promotion to company principal at the end of the 2011–12 season. Roberts has been acclaimed as a masterful Balanchine interpreter, credited for combining ethereal elegance with outstanding stamina to craft leading roles. After her younger sister Callie Roberts joined the company the two siblings performed together in works including Cinderella.[http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:BPOC1&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=142CF52234E9F988&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA "Ballerinas following in their sisters' footsteps"], The Birmingham Post, 22 November 2012

Roberts has recently created roles in a number of short ballets, working with the contemporary American choreographer Jessica Lang in Lyric Pieces, and dancing as the Fairy in Michael Corder's Le Baiser de la fée. In 2014 The Observer reported that an "incandescent Jenna Roberts steals the show" in Alexander Whitley's new ballet Kin.[http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:EOLL&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=14D738CB00A31218&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA "Birmingham Royal Ballet triple bill review"], The Observer, 27 April 2014

Having retired from dancing, she now teaches Pilates, and she and husband Joseph Caley relocated to Australia in 2022, where Caley has become a principal artist with The Australian Ballet{{Cite web |last=Lambert |first=Catherine |date=2022-07-18 |title=The life-changing moments that brought two dance recruits to Australia |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/dance/the-moments-that-changed-these-dancers-lives-and-brought-them-here-20220718-p5b2g6.html |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

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