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 ...

Stormi Llivicura reaches up to pop bubbles floating down from above. To Stormi, 14 months old, it’s a game, but the little girl from Patchogue is also being introduced to ballet positions — rising on ...