Happy Valentine’s Day!

• 14 Feb 2013

We are feeling the ROMANCE at Miami City Ballet! In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we caught up with dancers Michael Breeden, Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg, and  Patricia Delgado to learn about their favorite ballet LOVE stories.  Here is what they had to say!

Michael Breeden, Corps de Ballet – My favorite ballet love story is La Sonnambula. Tragic love stories always have major issues separating their leads, like a curse or feuding families, but in Sonnambula, your heroine is literally in another state of consciousness, unable to fully grasp the poet before her. It’s immensely sad, and the ending where she carries him off into eternity is heartwrenching. Not exactly an uplifting Valentine’s Day story, but beautiful nonetheless!

Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg, Principal – My favorite ballet love story is Romeo and Juliet. It is so incredibly romantic – they fall in love at first sight, risk everything to be together, are so deeply bound that they can’t bear to live without one another, and eventually sacrifice their lives for each other. I think it’s ultimately the deepest, most profound and tragic love story there is.

Patricia Delgado, Principal – My favorite ballet love story is Romeo and Juliet.  It has always been a favorite of mine to watch.  But when I got the opportunity to dance Juliet when Miami City Ballet did Cranko’s version a couple years ago, it touched my heart even more!  The ballet takes you on a journey through so many aspects of love; innocent and naive love at first sight, painful and passionate love, tragic love and in the end sadness, with a glimmer of hope that true love never dies!  I will treasure that experience forever!