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NYCB Vol. 13 No. 7 & 8 - Nutcracker
Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Robert LaFosse, who was...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 4, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 6 - Nutcracker
[6/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Sara Adams, a...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 3, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 2 & 3 - Nutcracker
[2/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Our next story come from former...

Lauryn Johnson
Nov 30, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 1 - Nutcracker
(1/52) Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! The first story comes from our...

Lauryn Johnson
Nov 29, 2024


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 50 - Nutcracker
(50/50) We've made it! Congratulation to the dancers, musicians, artistic staff, backstage staff, and front of house staff for...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 31, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 49 - Nutcracker
(49/50) Jacques d'Amboise and Allegra Kent (visible in the back, Paul Mejia as the Prince). Photo by Fred Fehl, 1961. Harry Ransom Center

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 30, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 48 - Nutcracker
(48/50) Melissa Hayden. Photo by Martha Swope, 1964.

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 30, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 47 - Nutcracker
(47/50) Kay Mazzo and Sean Lavery. Photo by Martha Swope, 1977.

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 29, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 44 - Nutcracker
(44/50) Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride dancing the Nutcracker pas de deux as newlyweds. These photos were taken in December...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 27, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 42 - Nutcracker
(42/50) If my math is correct, this would be Darci Kistler's Sugar Plum debut at age 16! With Ib Andersen. Photos by Fred Fehl, 1980....

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 26, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 37, 38 & 39 - Nutcracker
(37/50) Maria Tallchief on the preparation for the first Nutcracker: “As usual, he created the pas de deux for André and me with a...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 23, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 35 & 36 - Nutcracker
(35/50) Violette Verdy and Jonathan Watts. Photos by Fred Fehl, 1959. Harry Ransom Center. (36/50) Violette and Conrad Ludlow. Photos by...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 22, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 31 - Nutcracker
(31/50) Gelsey Kirkland & Helgi Tomasson. Photos by Martha Swope, 1974.

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 19, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 27 & 28 - Nutcracker
(27/50) Patricia McBride and Edward Villella in the Nutcracker Pas de Deux. This was filmed in the August of 1969 at Jacob's Pillow. Stay...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 16, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 26 - Nutcracker
(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...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 15, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 25 - Nutcracker
(25/50) Diana Adams in the 1958 CBS television taping of Nutcracker. 1-2. Diana Adams. Photos by Fred Fehl, 1958. Harry Ransom Center. 3....

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 14, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 20 & 21 - Nutcracker
(20/50) "In 1958, Balanchine removed the grand pas de deux, substituting for it a dance for the Sugar Plum Fairy supported not by a...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 10, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 18 & 19 - Nutcracker
(18/50) A very young Gelsey Kirkland as an angel, a party child, and a Polichinelle! (top Upstage center. Fred Fehl, 1963. Upstage, last...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 9, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 16 - Nutcracker
(16/50) Suzanne: "Mr. Balanchine treated all human beings with respect, including children. He never talked down to them, or for that...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 7, 2023


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 14 - Nutcracker
(14/50) “I can remember very well,” Ms. Tallchief says, “standing downstage on opening night toward the end of the first act, before I...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 5, 2023
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