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

The ballet Episodes was originally a collaboration between Balanchine and Martha Graham. She choreographed the first section and...

(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...

(3/6) Balanchine on the idea that his ballets are abstract: “No piece of music, no dance can in itself be abstract. You hear a physical...

(1/6) “Ballet began when Terpsichore touched Apollo’s finger, as on the Sistine ceiling God touches Adam’s, and inspired a pas de deux in...

(9/10) A lot of people say Balanchine’s one-act Swan Lake is cold and stripped of emotion. Although many story elements are absent I...

Today is the 4th out of 10 Swan Lake performances this season. (bottom left) Melissa Hayden & Jacques d’Amboise. Martha Swope, 1967....

(1/10) Today begins NYCB’s run of 12 Swan Lake performances. Balanchine’s version (rather than Martins’) is being mounted for the first...

Show number 16. Photos of Melissa Hayden as the Sugar Plum Fairy. (top left) Photo by Frederick Melton, 1954. (top right) Photo by...

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...

For Nutcracker No. 12, let’s see some Jacques d’Amboise. (left) Photo by Martha Swope, 1973. Jacques and Patricia McBride. (center) Photo...