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 ...

Lauren Starobin was still enrolled in college earlier this year when her big break came. In in the heat of lockdown, Starobin — a former dancer — was called with 72 hours notice to create costumes for ...

Houston Ballet’s costume shop, in late November, bursts at the seams with costumes for the The Nutcracker. When I visited the week before Thanksgiving, the show’s 1,750 opulent costumes bulged from ...

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 ...

Ballet has officially returned for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and this time with an exciting surprise. On April 25th, the American Ballet Theatre will be debuting Lauren Lovette’s ...

Presenting authentic dances from different regions of Mexico is important to Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican folk dance troupe from Aurora, but so are the costumes. “The costumes, aside ...

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 ...

“The Nutcracker” is getting a makeover — Pittsburgh-style.

Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of Christian Dior, designed 16 costumes for the 'Nuit Blanche' ballet performance at the Opera House in Rome. By Ariston Anderson Maria Grazia Chiuri returned to ...