Gelsey on being a student: “I developed a lot of inhibitions, complexes about my eyes [too big], my nose [too small], my complexion—every...

(45/50) The Sugar Plum Fairy will welcome the Prince and Marie to the Land of Sweets just 5 more times this season… (top left) Photo by...

(31/50) Gelsey Kirkland & Helgi Tomasson. Photos by Martha Swope, 1974.

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

No commentary today, just Gelsey and Helgi in La Source. Gelsey Kirkland & Helgi Tomasson. Photos by Martha Swope, 1974.

Balanchine on Gelsey in his 1970 revival of Firebird: “She’s still a baby, just coming out of the awkward stage. But I didn’t want a...

[32/50] Gelsey on the role of Dewdrop: “When I returned to Balanchine’s stage [following a foot injury], I had the facility to absorb...

[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...

This season, Justin Peck’s Scherzo Fantastique is on stage, but 50 years ago Robbins choreographed to the same Stravinsky score. I...

As Tallchief remembered from her stage vantage: “A firestorm of applause erupted in the City Center, and the audience was on its feet...

“Jerome Robbins’ new ballet, Goldberg Variations, is a work of such amplitude and grandeur that it can make you fall in love with the...

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