Midway through the Grands Ballets Canadiens run of the Nutcracker at Place des Arts, 79-year old costume designer François Barbeau is already mulling over improvements to costumes for next year’s ...
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 ...
Before Pacific Northwest Ballet closed the curtain on its recent ”All Premiere” production, the costume shop was already hard at work on the company’s annual production of “The Nutcracker.” In fact, ...
It’s only natural to think of little Clara, of the Dew Drop Fairy and, of course, of the Sugar Plum Fairy when the holiday ballet “The Nutcracker” comes around each Christmas. The delicate ballerinas ...