For show number 14, let’s look at some gorgeous shots of Gelsey Kirkland and Helgi Tomasson in 1974. All photos by Martha Swope.

It’s the first 9-show week of this Nutcracker season and we are on show number 13. This one gets me every time: I love a full-circle...

For Nutcracker No. 12, let’s see some Jacques d’Amboise. (left) Photo by Martha Swope, 1973. Jacques and Patricia McBride. (center) Photo...

Janet Reed as Marzipan in the Nutcracker Frederick Melton, 1954. NYPL

(10/50) I canNOT get enough of these pics of John Prinz airborne as the Cavelier in The Nutcracker! Photos by Martha Swope, 1968. NYPL

(9/50) Precious angels wait for their cue in The Nutcracker Photos by Martha Swope, 1985

(8/50) Maria Calegari in The Nutcracker Photos by Martha Swope, 1985, 1985, 1982. NYPL

In 1964, when NYCB moved to the New York State Theater, Balanchine re-choreographed the Arabian/Coffee Divertissement for Gloria Govrin...

(6/50) Wow wow wow it was so hard to choose just a couple photos to share of Kay Mazzo in Balanchine's Nutcracker over the years. 😍

(5/50) Rehearsals for the snow scene in the 1954 original production of the Nutcracker. Mr. B was 50 here. You can see Mr. B...

(3/50) I love these two pictures. The exuberance in the first one! Oh how I wish I could have seen Eddie perform live! I met him briefly...

(4/50) Maria Tallchief, Balanchine’s original Sugar Plum Fairy and “America’s First Prima Ballerina.”

(2/50) I received a question about Marie/Clara. Everyone knows NYCB’s Nutcracker production uses the name Marie now, but the photo I...

(1/50) On occasion I’ve found myself down the rabbit hole of the digital archives of @nypl_lpa @jeromerobbinsdancedivision. I think I’ll...

(4/12) Allegra in Midsummer : (left) Allegra and Peter Martins in Act II Divertissement, 1973. (center) Allegra in Act II Divertissement,...