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 ...

It’s not unusual to get a new outfit for your 50th birthday. But George Balanchine’s “Jewels” is getting 66 of them. The 1967 ballet, created by Balanchine as a plotless three-act work (inspired, so ...

David Heuvel is retiring after 31 years, and this production of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ is his ‘swan song.’ When a ballet dancer is performing a character — whether a sugar-plum fairy or a dying swan or a ...

DENVER — The Colorado Ballet is about to begin its 59th season of "The Nutcracker." While it has been performed locally for nearly six decades, dancers have actually been wearing the same costumes for ...