Ballet tutu

The Tutu [ tyty ] is a ballet costume. It is a skirt made of several layers of tulle.

After the dancer Marie Taglioni had occurred in La Sylphide in 1832 for the first time in the tutu, it became the common costume of a ballerina. Until then, the dancers had worn panniers ( crinolines ) or classic, simple clothes. With the shorter and lighter Tutu they could perform higher jumps and her legs were visible, but this was regarded in the 19th century as a highly immoral.

The romantic tutu is calf length, such as in Giselle. Later it became shorter and shorter, until stiff protruding tulle skirt, as used in most of Swan Lake productions. The present form of the tutus ballet dancers owe the costume designer Barbara Karinska, in 1950 invented this so-called powder puffs tutu in the New York City Ballet.