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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ballerinas in white classical tutus float across the stage like feathers to mournful orchestral music. In romantic ballets like “Swan Lake” and “Giselle,” ballerinas transcend reality as fairies or ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Tickets are now available to Johnstown Concert Ballet's “Tea and Tutus” event. The afternoon event is designed for those who wish to learn more about classical ballet and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Royal New Zealand Ballet's Tutus on Tour brings modern and classical ballet to the regions. Photo / Stephen A’Court The programme will contain several shorter performances, rather than a full ballet, ...