[15/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Tim Fox who...

[14/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Kim Kokich who...

[13/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Viki Bromberg...

[11/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Suzy Pilarre, a...

[10/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from KJ Takahashi, a...

[9/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Diana White, who...

Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Robert LaFosse, who was...

[6/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Sara Adams, a...

Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Continuing from Maria Calegari’s stories...

[2/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Our next story come from former...

(1/52) Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! The first story comes from our...

Dances at a Gathering opens with a solo for the Brown Boy who was originally danced by Edward Villella . Eddie wrote about this solo in...

(50/50) We've made it! Congratulation to the dancers, musicians, artistic staff, backstage staff, and front of house staff for...

(49/50) Jacques d'Amboise and Allegra Kent (visible in the back, Paul Mejia as the Prince). Photo by Fred Fehl, 1961. Harry Ransom Center

(48/50) Melissa Hayden. Photo by Martha Swope, 1964.

(47/50) Kay Mazzo and Sean Lavery. Photo by Martha Swope, 1977.

(46/50) Sheryl Ware as lead Marzipan. Elise Ingalls and Lisa de Ribére. Photo by Martha Swope, 1977.

(44/50) Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride dancing the Nutcracker pas de deux as newlyweds. These photos were taken in December...

(45/50) The Sugar Plum Fairy will welcome the Prince and Marie to the Land of Sweets just 5 more times this season… (top left) Photo by...

(41/50) Edward Bigelow, the original Mother Ginger in 1954 and the Polichinelles. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1954. LIFE Magazine Archive.