MONTARA — For the young ballerina, the little girl of 3 or so who dreams of a world of stages and bright lights, the elegant tutu is the key to her magical transformation. At Susan Hayward’s ...

Odette's tutu from Swan Lake, the Nutcracker's uniform, Eugene Onegin's tailcoat, Boris Godunov's royal vestments, embroidered skirts and bodices for La Bayadere. What the audience sees on stage in a ...

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 ...

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With apologies to pointe shoes, nothing says “classical ballet” like a tutu. For more than a century, little has changed with the basic structure of its two essential styles: the historically older ...

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 ...

The New York City Ballet’s costume shop is located on the eighth floor of a building in Lincoln Center. There are spectacular views of the Hudson River, but no one’s looking out the windows. They’re ...