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 ...

The opportunities to tutu-up in life are sadly few, but we can still spend some quality time with those artists who know #tutulife like they know their own ballet slippers. We're talking about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it was "strongly suggested" to Tony Paopao that he wear a tutu to accompany his three-year-old daughter in her very first dance recital, he was hesitant. "At first I didn't want to, I'm already a ...

What’s it like teaching pre-ballet to kids under the age of 8? “It’s like herding squirrels,” Tutu School founder Genevieve Weeks said. Tutu School offers classes for kids aged 18 months to 8 years.

Imagine spending fun-filled camp days exploring the enchanted and enriching world of ballet! On any given day at Tutu Camp, a child might take a ballet class, decorate costumes, learn the story of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Art of Movement is CNN’s monthly show exploring the latest innovations in art, culture, science and technology. “My attempt is to show a century of male dance in a hundred minutes,” ...