Ballet Essentials

Girls’ artistic gymnastics floor routine competition leotards differ from rhythmic gymnastics competition leotards in several important dimensions: artistic gymnastics floor exercise is performed on a spring floor to…

Mexican Folklórico dance costumes are among the most visually spectacular and regionally diverse in the world dance costume canon — each of Mexico’s regions has developed its own…

Men’s ballet shoes and canvas ballet slippers occupy a specific functional and aesthetic niche in the male dancer’s footwear wardrobe that differs from the general athletic shoe in…

Boys’ hip hop dance outfits and street dance costumes for kids performance serve a dual function: they must be authentic enough to the visual vocabulary of hip hop…

Latin competition dance dresses for girls in the junior ballroom and rising star divisions represent a significantly different design challenge than the adult Latin competition dress: the garment…

Praise dance costumes and liturgical worship dance garments occupy a unique category in dance costuming that differs from secular performance costumes in several important dimensions: the garment must…

Polynesian dance costumes and Tahitian grass skirts represent one of the most visually distinctive and culturally specific categories in world dance performance costuming — the craft of authentic…

Dance bodysuits with built-in shorts — also called shortsuit bodysuits, unitard-with-shorts, or bodysuit-short combinations — solve one of the most practical problems in dance class wear: the challenge…

Men’s harem pants and loose contemporary dance trousers have become an important category in the male dancer’s wardrobe as the expansion of contemporary, jazz, and fusion dance styles…

Rhythmic gymnastics leotards for adult women and teen competitors are among the most technically demanding garments in all of performance sport costume — they must be constructed to…