1967 Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Connie Hochman who...

Gavin with Artur Sultanov at Oregon Ballet Theater. Photo by Blaine Truitt Covert, 2003. [28/50] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this...

[11/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Suzy Pilarre, a...

(41/50) Edward Bigelow, the original Mother Ginger in 1954 and the Polichinelles. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1954. LIFE Magazine Archive.

(26/50) I’m very inspired by all the family legacies in this company. I was able to find at least 10 instances of dancers whose children...

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

(7/50) The best thing you will see all day today is little baby Suzy Pilarre as a Polichinelle when she was 11 years old. The pictures...

[49/50] Suzy Pilarre recently reached out to me to share her history with the Nutcracker: "In 1958, at 10 I was brought to SAB by Melissa...

Show number 27. Susie Pilarre (left) and Delia Peters (right) as Polichinelles in 1958. Photos by Martha Swope.