[14/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Kim Kokich who...

(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...

(2/50) The Sugar Plum Fairy, welcomes the Nutcracker Prince and Marie into the Land of Sweets in the original 1954 production of...

[46/50] “Little Miss Bethune, incidentally, gave up a good job in Broadway’s ‘The Most Happy Fella’ in order to appear as Clara. Her...

[24/50] On Marie’s dream [Act II] Balanchine said, “Actually, it’s not a dream—It’s the reality that Mother didn’t believe. The story...

[12/50] In 1985, Jean-Pierre Frohlich recalled his early years in The Nutcracker to author Ellen Switzer: "When I danced the Nutcracker...

We’re back with Nutcracker week 4 and show number 22. Today I’m highlighting some beautiful corps moments from the 1985 production. I...

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...