Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg was born in Queens, N.Y. where she trained with Teresa Aubel, Nicholas Orloff, Norman Walker and Barbara Walczack. She continued her studies on scholarship at the School of American Ballet before joining Miami City Ballet as an apprentice in 1994 at the age of 17. In 1999, just before being promoted to soloist, she was nominated by Edward Villella and Miami City Ballet for the prestigious Princess Grace Award. Moving steadily through the ranks, she was soon promoted to Principal Dancer in 2001. Kronenberg has danced leading roles in the majority of the Company’s diverse repertoire, performing with MCB at the Kennedy Center Honors, at the Jacob’s Pillow and Aspen Festivals, Torino’s Danza Festival in Italy, the Kennedy Center’s International Ballet Festival and Balanchine Celebrations, the Vail International Dance Festival, the NYC City Center’s Fall for Dance performance series, and at Les Étés de la Danse at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.She is very proud to have been a featured principal in the Balanchine Foundation’s Archival Filming of “Rubies,” and in the film “In Balanchine’s Classroom,” dancing excerpts from Bugaku. In March 2011, she was featured in PBS’s Great Performances “Dance in America: Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp.” She has also been featured on numerous occasions in Pointe Magazine, DanceView Times, Dance Spirit Magazine, and graced the cover of Dance Magazine’s October 2009 issue, being the subject of its feature article. She has written a “From the Heart: Why I Dance” essay, which was published in Dance Magazine’s April 2011 issue, as well as a book entitled “So, You Want to be a Ballet Dancer?” which has been published electronically by Diversion Books, with the second edition published in paperback by The University Press of Florida.
Kronenberg has served as a regular faculty member of the Miami City Ballet Summer Intensive, and has been a guest teacher with several other schools including Ballet Arts of Jackson, Tenn., El Ballet de Monterrey Curso de Verano, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Naples Dance Conservatory, Ballet Chicago, Ballet East, Cary Ballet Conservatory, Florida Dance Conservatory, and Conchita Espinoza Academy of the Arts, among many others. She has also performed as a guest artist with Peoria Ballet, Ballet Arts of Jackson, Tenn., Ballet Americana, Ballet Chicago, Collin County Ballet Theater, New Orleans Ballet Theater, Lone Star Ballet, and at The Miami International Ballet Festival, Gala de las Estrellas in Santo Domingo, Florida Youth Dance Gala, and more. In 2010, Kronenberg was honored as one of Miami New Times’ “100 Creatives.”
She has been happily married to fellow MCB Principal Dancer, Carlos Miguel Guerra, since 2006 and in 2012 they were overjoyed in welcoming to the world their beautiful daughter, Eva Carlynn.
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