Angels, all from Boston Ballet School, wait backstage before their performance.


Lauren Herfindahl, one of the four School students dancing Clara this year, poses downstairs in the Opera House.


A lamb gets her nose painted before heading on stage.


The bear, a crowd favorite, makes a giant leap for the audience and party girls on stage.


Lauren Herfindahl on stage as Clara.


Clara with Drosselmeier and The Nutcracker.


Company dancer Sarah Wroth watches from the wings...


And so does a little lamb.


The Waltz of the Flowers from the stage wings.




The dancers take a bow at the end of another successful performance!



Read about what happens backstage in Boston Ballet's
Nutcracker Diaries.