I learned the importance of the dance costume at a very early age, as both my parents were dancers, and I can remember watching repeated costume fittings for hours from my crib near the piano in my ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Across the nation and around the world, in certain backstage sanctums, people are fretting over tutus. It’s “Nutcracker” season, when the holiday warhorse ...

The Sugar Plum Fairy includes 19 layers of tulle in its tutu and is just one of 240 costumes involved in The Nutcracker – 187 ...

What would “The Nutcracker” be without its pink tutus and illustrative sweets? The annual festive production is now under way at New York City Ballet, where it takes a staff of nearly 50 to craft and ...

We’re going to have to keep her home address under wraps. If not, there will be a long line of local grandmothers and moms at ...

It’s hard to figure out where to focus your eyes when you step into the textile feast that is the Charlotte Ballet costume shop during Nutcracker season. There’s a cluster of mice heads on a sewing ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This gossamer ballet tutu was worn by ...

What do you do when your 8-year-old daughter asks you to dress up in a frilly costume to join her in dance class? Why, you do it, of course. And you don't have to be a mom to jump on that invite, as ...

NEW YORK — For the New York City Ballet Gala last month, top-tier fashion designers collaborated with the company's costume shop to create the looks for four works. This intersection of high art and ...

The exhibition will feature a recreation of Margot Fonteyn's dressing room Costumes worn by Dame Margot Fonteyn and set designs by Picasso are going on display as part of a major exhibition by the ...

The show can't possibly go on. Or, at least, no ballet company should be expected to woo paying audiences without its principal dancers twirling and whirling in hand-stitched tutus. And there's the ...

, which began at the company's former HQ, St. Lawrence Hall, in 1995. Unlike the paper-thin fast fashion of today, the ...