Tag: new york magazine

Watch the Met Museum Make Degas' "Little Dancer" Sculpture a New Tutu

We always love it when dance costumes get the high-fashion treatment. But here’s a next-level ballet makeover story: Curators at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art recently decided that Edgar Degas’ iconic The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer sculpture needed a bit of a style refresh—and tasked the museum’s Costume Institute conservator, Glenn Petersen, with making her a […]

Just When We'd Stopped Crying About Wendy Whelan's NYCB Retirement…

…New York Magazine had to go and re-open that big bag of feels. This week’s issue of NYMag includes a gorgeous group of behind-the-scenes photos from Wendy Whelan’s final performance with New York City Ballet. We see a little of everything: the three pairs of pointe shoes she wore during the show, her last bow, an […]

Spotlight on The Brooklynettes

When the New Jersey Nets moved to Brooklyn this year, they changed more than just their zip code. They also formed an all-new dance team, The Brooklynettes, who vowed to break the mold with hot new moves and even hotter dancers. And they certainly pulled it off!  With choreography by dance celebs like Rhapsody James […]

A Backstage Pass

There’s something about the onstage glamour and sparkle of ballet that makes peeks at ballet dancers’ backstage lives extra thrilling. What goes on before they don those beautiful tutus? What’s happening to the feet inside those shiny pointe shoes? Even as a former ballet dancer who pretty much knows the answers to those questions—i.e., ballet […]

Sneak Peek at Valentino's NYCB Costumes!

From the moment we first heard that superstar designer Valentino Garavani would be designing costumes for New York City Ballet, we’ve been anxiously awaiting a glimpse of his creations. Would they be ruffly? Lacy? His signature Valentino red? Well, the first pictures are in, and it looks like the answer is “all of the above”! […]