Jennifer Watembach

Jennifer was born and raised in Sacramento. She began taking ballet lessons at the age of two at Janelle Sebren’s Sacramento Academy of Dance. She attended the Sacramento Ballet School under the direction of Carinne Binda and Melanie Haller, and danced various roles in Ron Cunningham’s The Nutcracker. She then attended the San Francisco Ballet School for two years, before joining The National Ballet of Canada as an apprentice in 2018. In 2019 she became a member of the corps de ballet at The National Ballet and continued with them until 2021. Her repertoire includes: Frederick Ashton’s The Dream, Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anna Karenina, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Angels’ Atlas, Etudes, and The Sleeping Beauty, among other works. Jennifer joined Sacramento Ballet in 2023 and has performed in The Nutcracker, Paul Vasterling’s Cinderella, Marika Brussel’s Water Ghosts, George Balanchine’s Apollo, Michael Pink’s Dracula, Young Soon Hue’s Romeo and Juliet, Thang Dao’s Faits Divers, Amy Hall Garner’s Within the Ordinary, and Beer and Ballet.