The dance world continues its return, and the New York City Ballet this Wednesday has planned a program angled toward a new generation of theatergoers. Audience members who see the curtains part at ...

Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, adjunct associate professor of industrial design and fashion design, has designed a number of high-tech costumes for the Brooklyn Ballet’s production of The Brooklyn ...

It’s not unusual to get a new outfit for your 50th birthday. But George Balanchine’s “Jewels” is getting 66 of them. The 1967 ballet, created by Balanchine as a plotless three-act work (inspired, so ...

The New York City Ballet is one of the premiere cultural intuitions in the country, and as such, it has reputation to uphold. Not only do the performers have to be on point (both literally and ...

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 ...

There is something a bit ballet-ish to the beautiful tale of "Little Women," in the sense that the characters in Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel move through the world in a powerful and memorable ...

In A Very Brief History of Ballet, a video that the NYCB shared exclusively with Refinery29, NYCB takes us through roughly 300 years of the sport: The short begins in Paris in 1661, where the world's ...