Behind the glimmer and glory of our exquisite tutus or the details of our character-driven costumes is a team of artists that understands how every leap, every lift, and every turn needs movement and mood to help tell a story. Our Ballet Memphis Costume Shop team helps bring the choreographers' and dancers' visions to life, so that our audience can enjoy every last sparkling detail.

More than 10,000 costumes from over 30 years of classical and innovative repertoire are carefully organized and cared for in our custom-built, two-story Costume Shop. With windows to the street as well as to the interior building, visitors and passersby are encouraged to stop and look at what's being created. Each new season brings with it new dancers, new productions and new costumes to keep the team busy handcrafting each piece of magic for the stage from their own imaginative designs as well as constructing those of guest designers from around the globe. Our larger productions, like Nutcracker, have hundreds of costumes, shoes and tights alone, requiring multiple fittings and drill-team organization.