(44/50) Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride dancing the Nutcracker pas de deux as newlyweds. These photos were taken in December...

Three Balanchine Duets* Part 2 *commissioned for the Vail Dance Festival This week, Vail’s International Evenings of Dance performances...

Janet Reed as Marzipan in the Nutcracker Frederick Melton, 1954. NYPL

(10/50) I canNOT get enough of these pics of John Prinz airborne as the Cavelier in The Nutcracker! Photos by Martha Swope, 1968. NYPL

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

(8/50) Maria Calegari in The Nutcracker Photos by Martha Swope, 1985, 1985, 1982. NYPL

In 1964, when NYCB moved to the New York State Theater, Balanchine re-choreographed the Arabian/Coffee Divertissement for Gloria Govrin...

(6/50) Wow wow wow it was so hard to choose just a couple photos to share of Kay Mazzo in Balanchine's Nutcracker over the years. 😍

(3/50) I love these two pictures. The exuberance in the first one! Oh how I wish I could have seen Eddie perform live! I met him briefly...

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

(2/50) I received a question about Marie/Clara. Everyone knows NYCB’s Nutcracker production uses the name Marie now, but the photo I...

(1/50) On occasion I’ve found myself down the rabbit hole of the digital archives of @nypl_lpa @jeromerobbinsdancedivision. I think I’ll...