[7/50] Allegra Kent on the first season of Balanchine's Nutcracker: "I was only a mouse and a shepherdess. I longed to be Dewdrop and do...

[8/50] Did someone say Paw de Deux? I have absolutely ZERO facts for you about this photo. I don't know why it exists. Does anyone else...

Suki Schorer remembers her experience with the should-sits in the Grand Pas de Deux: With Sugar Plum, Mr. B said, “Don’t get sweet.” I...

[4/50] “I loved Nutcracker, especially doing Dewdrop. I felt that was really dancing, even more than when I did the Sugar Plum Fairy.”...

[5/50] “I was cast to dance the role of the Candy Cane when the ballet premiered in New York. Jumping through that damn hoop at breakneck...

[2/50] In 1964, NYCB scaled up the production to fit the New York State Theater. “When we first lit it at the State Theater we had a call...

[3/50] Marian Horosko on being Frau Stahlbaum in the early years of the Nutcracker: “In the first or second Nutcracker season at City...

[1/50] Here we go! It's officially Nutcracker season! Tune in every day (sometimes twice a day) to see the photos I have unearthed over...

With one final Bizet, that's a wrap on NYCB's Fall 2022 season! Thank you all for learning and/or reminiscing with me. Thank you for...

In her autobiography Holding on to the Air, Suzanne Farrell remembered learning Vienna Waltzes in 1977: “I began my dance on center stage...

Mimi Paul in Symphony in C Photos by Martha Swope, 1964.

“He had me do Episodes once, the second section. It’s a pas de deux, and the ballerina’s entrance is like on a tightrope. Balanchine had...

"He loved making thinkings like 'Vienna Waltzes' and 'Union Jack' because there were so many hoards of people. He was always talking...

Happy birthday to NYCB! On this day in 1948, New York City Ballet held its first performance which included Symphony in C! Tonight a...

Jacques d’Amboise was the definitive interpreter of the role Apollo from 1951-1968. In a 2016 interview for the Balanchine Foundation,...

Suki in Symphony in C : (left) Suki Schorer. Martha Swope, 1965. (center) Paul Mejia and Suki Schorer. (Merrill Ashley in the corps) Fred...

When on tour in Russia in 1972, Stravinsky Violin Concerto was a hit with audiences. Russian dance critic, Yuri Slonimsky, praised...

“Once while performing The Cage, I did not fasten my sleek black beetle like wig securely, and by mid-dance it was hanging near my ear. I...

The ballet Episodes was originally a collaboration between Balanchine and Martha Graham. She choreographed the first section and...

In the Martha Swope collection at the library, there are hundreds (thousands?) of contact sheets. (About 24 small photos all printed on...