PHOENIX — Ballet Arizona will be debuting 32 brand new costumes including 18 tutus that were all handmade in their costume shop. The outfits will be worn during the performances of Cinderella at the ...

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 ...

The show can't possibly go on. Or, at least, no ballet company should be expected to woo paying audiences without its principal dancers twirling and whirling in hand-stitched tutus. And there's the ...

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 ...

Sara Bacon pulls out a nearly-finished tutu and lays it on her dining room table in the San Fernando Valley. She spent the last night working in front of her TV, carefully sewing on hooks and eyes.

As a senior in costume technology in the School of Design and Production at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Jenna Anderson has always wanted to work for The Royal Ballet, a ...

What do you do when your 8-year-old daughter asks you to dress up in a frilly costume to join her in dance class? Why, you do it, of course. And you don't have to be a mom to jump on that invite, as ...