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THE STORY CONCERNS A POET WHO APPEARS AT A BARON'S LAVISH PARTY AND BECOMES ENAMORED OF A COQUETTE (APPARENTLY THE HOST'S MISTRESS) SUBSEQUENTLY (WHEN THE GUESTS HAVE RETIRED FROM SUPPER) HE MEETS THE MYSTERIOUS SLEEPWALKER (THE HOST'S WIFE), IS DISCOVERED FOLLOWING HER TO HER ROOM BY THE JEALOUS COQUETTE, AND FINALLY IS STABBED TO DEATH BY THE ENRAGED BARON.
--TAKEN FROM WAITER TERRY'S SYNOPSIS IN REPERTORY IN REVIEW BY BY NANCY REYNOLDS
Earlier this year, my friend and dancing partner of the past, Edward Villella, the founding artistic director of the Miami City Ballet, invited me to Florida to coach three of his ballerinas--Jennifer Kronenberg, Deanna Seay, and Haiyan Wu--in the role of the Sleepwalker in George Balanchine's La Sonnambula.
This ballet (originally titled Night Shadow) and I go very far back together--in fact, back into the middle of the last century. In 1949 when I saw Night Shadow with Alexandra Danilova and Frederic Franklin in a Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production, it was a "first time ever" experience for me. Even though I'd already decided on ballet as my...
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