the nutcraker – un regard oblique

hauntedbystorytelling:

Peter Hall :: Twelve-year-old “Nutcracker” performer Suzanne
Cullingford keeps one hand on her ballet slippers during a nap at the
Royal Festival Hall in London in 1961.

Jack Mitchell :: Maria Tallchief, America’s first major prima ballerina, and the first Native American to hold the rank photographed in 1964. | src Getty Images.