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 ...

DELAFIELD -- A Delafied Police Department officer is receiving a lot of praise for joining his daughter at ballet class in his police uniform -- and a tutu. Valeria Anne Stern-Dixon owns Petite Pas ...

WHEN Natalie Portman gave her Oscar-winning performance as a prima ballerina in horror Black Swan, we weren’t just admiring her Brando-like attention to the craft, we were in awe at what she wore for ...

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 ...

Bleeding toes and sweaty clogged pores are very real foils to ballet’s poised exterior of frothy tulle tutus, tiaras, and effortless pirouettes. But the obsession with ballet’s beauty and femininity ...