[50/50] One last bow for 2022! Allegra Kent on dancing Sugar Plum in 1964 for the first time on the larger New York State Theater stage,...

[33/50] A year ago today I was lucky enough to meet my favorite ballerina. I mean, I have a lot of favorites, but Allegra is at the top....

[19/50] "Balanchine’s pas de deux is one of the greatest of all time, so elegant, so fluid. Dance on this level is intellect without...

[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...

“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...

On Scotch Symphony Allegra Kent said, "There were theories—I was too sylphlike, not sylphlike enough; I was really a sylph, I was a girl...

(2/12) Here are additional photos from the original 1962 production. When Balanchine was a child, he was an elf in a production of...

(1/12) Twelve performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins today! These first two posts feature photos from the original production...

(5/6) In his 1936 autobiography, (affiliate link) Stravinsky wrote of the original 1928 decor and costumes for Apollo: “I did not see eye...

“I don’t see why some people are so shocked by ‘The Cage’. If you observe closely you must realize that it is actually not more than the...

(3/4) Another moment in the genesis of the ballet came one day when Robbins watched dancers rehearsing the Swan Lake adagio and was...

(1/4) The beauty of these photos gives me chills. Jerome Robbins working with two casts of dancers on Afternoon of a Faun in 1964. Edward...

Although Serenade’s meaning has been subject to endless speculation since it was created 87 years ago—Mr. B himself even giving...

Here are 5 of Balanchine’s Waltz Girls in the same arabesque. So interesting to see how the same choreography can still be so different....

(3/10) “[Allegra’s potrayal] is poetic in the extreme and wonderfully musical […] Surely here is one of the loveliest of Odettes.”—John...

Yesterday’s cancelled Nutcracker (due to Covid-19) would have been number 31. Allegra joined NYCB at 15, became a principal at 19...

Seven years ago I had never heard of New York City Ballet. 7 years ago I had the chance to see a working rehearsal of Robbins’ The...

Show #26: The Jacqueline Kennedy and children Caroline and John visit the Nutcracker. Allegra is Sugar Plum and Jacques is Cavalier....

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