Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Suzanne Farrell, who was...

(18/50) A very young Gelsey Kirkland as an angel, a party child, and a Polichinelle! (top Upstage center. Fred Fehl, 1963. Upstage, last...

[15/50] Of a 17-year-old Gelsey Kirkland, Clive Barnes wrote: “It is a special pleasure to see Miss Kirkland right now in the springtime...

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