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 ...

“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 ...

If you adore The Nutcracker in the wintertime, there's a new show sure to fulfill your taste for the fantastical this summer: the American Ballet Theatre's Whipped Cream. The Alexei ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A fashion designer and a choreographer created a work in which intentionally cumbersome garments lead and the dancers’ movements follow. By Nina ...

It took a team of 12 people at the National Ballet of Canada, including a fabric buyer, costume cutter and jewellery maker, to create the Sugar Plum Fairy costume that shines and sparkles in Act 2 of ...