With apologies to pointe shoes, nothing says “classical ballet” like a tutu. For more than a century, little has changed with the basic structure of its two essential styles: the historically older ...

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 ...

MONTARA — For the young ballerina, the little girl of 3 or so who dreams of a world of stages and bright lights, the elegant tutu is the key to her magical transformation. At Susan Hayward’s ...

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 ...

As the lights dimmed and the dancers leapt into motion, Columbia Repertory Ballet’s fall gala became a tapestry of sensation—classical ballet melding with a neoclassical and contemporary edge. Tutus ...

Little girls all over the world share a dream of being a ballerina, gliding across stages in toe shows, fitted bodice and the stiff skirt made of netting. After all, what’s a ballerina without a tutu?

As the quiet, constant hum of various sewing machines overlaps with music floating up from dance studios below, a team of busy costumers concentrate on the task at hand. This hum is ever-present in ...

Classical or contemporary. French or Russian. Tutus or tunics. Dance devotees have a bewildering roster of choices to make in the next week as four dance companies traipse across the three-county area ...

The unabashedly confident young Houston Ballet soloist burned that question into my brain Thursday by unleashing a streak of piqué turns so lightning fast, I half expected her to leave charred lines ...