Penney de Jager

Wilhelmina Maria (Penney) de Jager (born 2 January 1948 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is a Dutch dancer and choreographer.

She achieved national fame when she began dancing and doing choreography for the jazz ballet of the popular television show TopPop (1970–1985).

[1] TopPop was a very popular music show in which artists mimed their hits in the television studio; if the artists were unavailable, one of the options was to have de Jager and her ballet perform a specially-designed routine while the hit was played (ex.

[2] A reporter described her choreography 40 years later as striking, though somewhat monotonous, characterized by fluttering costumes and hair.

In 1971 she got married (for a short period) to Rick van der Linden, then the keyboard player for Ekseption, with whom she had a son, Rick Jr.[5] De Jager had another son, David, who was adopted by a couple from the United States; later she followed him there.