30K views · 1.8K reactions | SF Ballet's Nutcracker premiered 77 years ago today and started the American tradition of this holiday ballet! ✨ Here's hoping that you too have visions of sugarplums dancing in your head. ✨ Nutcracker continues through Dec 30! : SF Ballet in Tomasson's Nutcracker | San Francisco Ballet | Facebook

On Christmas Eve 1944, the audience at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House experienced the American premiere of Nutcracker. An instant sensation, the ballet launched a national holiday tradition. This holiday season, join us as the lights dim, the music soars, snowflakes swirl, flowers dance, and a little girl dreams about a whole new world in a Nutcracker that is as unique as it is magical. And it's only at SF Ballet. #SFBNutcracker Dec 13 - Dec 30, 2017 | San Francisco Ballet