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 ...

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 an unusually quiet day in the Houston Ballet costume shop, where the staff just wrapped up Sylvia. "We're cleaning up after the big push of the past couple of days," explains manager Megan ...

“We made a set of rubies,” said Howard Merlin, Boston Ballet’s director of costumes. “But diamonds and emeralds we’re renting from National Ballet of Canada.” In late October, Merlin and his staff of ...