Miami City Ballet Program II

There is a sequence in Balanchine’s ‘La Sonnambula’ where the love-struck Poet rolls on the ground, placing his hands in the path of the beautiful Sleepwalker and watching in awe as, unseeing, she steps over him. Leaving aside the implications of a hero spell-bound by an unconscious beauty (oh, men), in Miami City Ballet’s production last Friday, Jennifer Kronenberg’s unfocused eyes were so haunting that the audience couldn’t help falling for her too. So when Carlos Miguel Guerra stood up, only to sink again, this time landing on his knees and bending until his back was flat against ground, we understood. Logically, this makes no sense: why is he bending away from her? Because of passion, that’s why!…