Consider the tutu, that light, ethereal ring of fluffiness encapsulating a ballet dancer's waist and hips. If there's one thing above all others that announces you're about to hear classical music and ...

About 75 hours of painstaking work, layers of tulle and netting, rows of hook-and-eye closures, appliqués, ribbons and Swarovski crystals go into each tutu Brenda Smith makes for Columbia Dance as a ...

It’s spring, and the tutus are in bloom: The Kirov has come and gone, City Ballet is on view, and American Ballet Theatre opens next week. The so-called classical tutu, that skirtlet that sticks ...

While most families relished the whirl of summer vacation, Gina Gray already had begun living "The Nutcracker." The San Anselmo seamstress has spent more than 500 hours since July as leader of a ...

The tutu’s the thing. Just ask Carolyn Fay. She and several other workers in the dance-costume shop at UNC School of the Arts have been making several new tutus for the lead ballerinas in the school’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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tutus immediately conjure up images of gracefulness, of ballerinas en pointe, pirouetting (seemingly) effortlessly across the stage. The ...

This was a prickly topic in the dance cyberworld last month after critic Lewis Segal ranted in the Los Angeles Times that today's productions "wallow in flatulent nostalgia," ignore the present and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Once upon a time there was a vogue for mirror-lined musical jewellery boxes with a tiny ballerina inside. Lift the ...

A leading Singaporean dance company has been denied a permit to perform in Kuala Lumpur, reportedly because a Malaysian government body deemed their costumes indecent. Bilqis Hijjas, president of ...