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He completed his apprenticeship with The Birmingham Ballet and later joined the company. He then danced with The Ohio Ballet before becoming the youngest dancer at The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center at 19 years old.

Carey danced as a principal dancer and guest artist with many companies including The Manhattan Ballet, The Higaki Ballet in Kyoto, Japan, The Florida Ballet in Jacksonville, Southern Ballet Theatre in Orlando, The State of Alabama Ballet in Birmingham and The Universal Ballet in Seoul, Korea. He has danced the principal roles in ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcraker, La Fil Mal Gardee, Allegro Brilliant, Coppelia and his favorite pas de duex “Belong” by Norbert Vesak.

He has traveled the world dancing on stages in France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Greece, Japan, China, Korea, Hong Kong and Canada. He was a principal dancer and dance captain for “The Best of Broadway” on the USS Song of Norway traveling through the Caribbean.

When Carey retired from dancing he moved from Seoul, Korea to Waycross, GA where he owned and operated his own dance studio called "Backstage Studios" from 1990 - 1994.  For the first time ever in Waycross he presented the full length "Nutcracker" in conjunction with The Florida Ballet Company.  His studio offered ballet, tap and jazz and often brought in guest artists and teachers. 

His students learned and performed many ballets including the classic "Peter and the Wolf". Carey was a child actor before dancing and after retiring from a professional ballet career become heavily involved in community theatre as actor, dancer, choreographer and director.

He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Amelia Community Theatre and is directing and choreographing their February 2011 production of “Cabaret”. Carey is a Realtor® with Prudential Chaplin Williams Realty here on Amelia Island.

child) in Ocala taking various hip hop and jazz classes for a year than taking special guest classes from professionals from New York and Chicago.

This persuaded her to move on to college, where she graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre. During her four years at Florida State she performed in multiple performances including “Beehive”, “Damn Yankees”, “School House Rock”, “Amadeus” and many others.

She also gained acting experience for Florida States Film School every season with eight undergraduate films and two thesis graduate films, one including a short mini film for Coca-Cola called “First Pop”.

Jennifer also became certified in stage combat, single-sword, and staff from the renowned teacher Paul Steger and trained in voice classes from professionals such as Susan Orrick and Debra Hale. During these many years she also worked for Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire teaching ballroom including smooth and rhythm, and performing in multiple teachers demonstrations and traveling the pan handle of Florida with Fred Astaire dancing in various showcases.

Jennifer moved to Jacksonville after graduation and continued to dance starting with teaching ballroom at Bean’s School of Dance then moved on to dance with FSCJ’s Danceworks for two years and various ballroom studios in Jacksonville, Fl. Jennifer continues her love for dance and drama today, and was recently seen performing in “Cabaret” at Amelia Islands Community Theatre.