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 ...

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 ...

There are two ways to pack a tutu. Placed in crates specifically designed for their transport, they can either hang as worn or sit stacked upside down, lying flat, one tutu on top of the other - tutu ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cincinnati Ballet wardrobe mistress Diana Adams knew she was learning a special skill before she traveled to New York City in the mid-1970s to study under Russian émigré Barbara Karinska, famous for ...

Editor’s Note: Art of Movement is CNN’s monthly show exploring the latest innovations in art, culture, science and technology. Male ballet dancers display phenomenal strength, but also convey ...

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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 ...

Stormi Llivicura reaches up to pop bubbles floating down from above. To Stormi, 14 months old, it’s a game, but the little girl from Patchogue is also being introduced to ballet positions — rising on ...