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 ...

Unless you resided under a rock the past few seasons, you will have no doubt encountered the sartorial phenomenon that is ...

A new exhibition in NYC features high-end couture, historic ballet costumes and modern athletic wear Nadine Daher - Reporter Standing center stage in her signature Dying Swan costume, prima ballerina ...

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 ...

In Black Swan, the new Darren Aronofsky movie that opened in theatres yesterday, Natalie Portman plays an ambitious ballerina determined to rise to the top of her profession. While preparing to play ...

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 ...

Hard on the coat tails of the Oscar and box-office success of Black Swan comes an initiative to revamp ballet's image for a more pop- and style-conscious audience. The English National Ballet (ENB) ...