(14/50) “I can remember very well,” Ms. Tallchief says, “standing downstage on opening night toward the end of the first act, before I...

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

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