This time of year, I want to go to parties. I love conviviality, but that’s not what I crave, because let’s face it, all winter people here are ready to get drunk and, once drunk, happy. I’m not wild ...

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 ...

HARD AT WORK TO MAKE THE PERFORMANCES POP. ♪ EMILY: FOR THE MAGIC YOU SEE ON STAGE, ♪ EMILY: ANOTHER KIND OF MAGIC IS HAPPENING HERE IN THE BASEMENT OF KANSAS CITY BALLET. >> IT IS PLAYERS UPON ...

It’s hard to figure out where to focus your eyes when you step into the textile feast that is the Charlotte Ballet costume shop during Nutcracker season. There’s a cluster of mice heads on a sewing ...

Ballet is often praised for its precision, strong dancers and hypnotic music. But one thing that’s often overlooked is the costume department. “Well, when you’re dancing, you have a certain structure ...