Onstage during Arielle Smith’s fabulous new, female-first vision of the classic “Carmen,” which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Ballet Thursday night, the titular character wields a fiery ...

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 legend is as follows: New York City Ballet cofounder George Balanchine was strolling down Fifth Avenue in the 1960s. The Russian-born choreographer was so dazzled by the shimmering stones in the ...

“We made a set of rubies,” said Howard Merlin, Boston Ballet’s director of costumes. “But diamonds and emeralds we’re renting from National Ballet of Canada.” In late October, Merlin and his staff of ...

This underground studio has been the domain of Wardrobe Mistress Diana Vandergriff-Adams since the Cincinnati Ballet moved into a former brewery in the late 1990s (and she’s been sewing costumes for ...

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 ...

LONDON - In the summer of 1975, WWD reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House after the death of her shipping tycoon husband, Aristotle Onassis.

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Dance Gala, which dates back to 1981, showcases a variety of student dancers and faculty choreographers. This year’s performances take place on Oct. 17 and 18, featuring five different dances, all ...