It was the Performing Arts Center of Connecticut's vision since the day we opened to make the experience of dance a more affordable art form for both dancers and parents.

Our Costume Shoppe began from our first day and has grown from a 5'x5' closet to almost 1,000 square feet of beautiful, organized state of the art space. Every year PACC spends thousands of dollars to increase our inventory of costumes from hip hop to jazz and modern to classical ballet. The generosity of our students adds greatly to the scope of costumes that fill our shoppe. We have invested in commercial sewing machines, tables, shelving system, racks and computers for inventory (every item in our costume room is photographed and logged into our system).

These costumes are used for our pre-professional dance company, In Motion, to lessen their costs, for the dancers in our Winter and Spring Ballets, for our student choreography dance showcase, Ideas In Motion, our musical theater productions and for our general population for the end of year dance concert costumes. It isn't just economics that made the idea of having a professional level costume shoppe for our dance studio seem the way to go, but the need to be ecological in recycling costumes that cost dollars and shouldn't just be thrown away or stored in the attic that made sense to us. Being green saves green $ too ! It felt like an obvious choice - something that would benefit everyone.

Our Costume Shoppe is managed and run by volunteers - parents who are giving back to PACC, our students and their community. This wonderful group of ladies is lead by our Costume Mistress, Sandy Zuccarello. Without all of them this would not be possible and we are grateful that they share their time and talents with PACC community. We welcome you to stop by and take a look around at one more thing that makes PACC different.

Encore is a shoppe for the recycling of gently used dance shoes and clothing available to all PACC students to help us all ecologically and economically. Students and Parents are encouraged to donate their dance shoes (in good shape) and dance clothing (freshly laundered) to Encore located in PACC's Costume Shoppe. It is our goal to make a dance education more affordable to all our students.

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