About Glitter & Dance
Glitter & Dance is a specialist supplier of dance, performance and costume fabrics based in Capalaba, Queensland. We supply dancers, parents, studios, costume makers, home sewers, small apparel businesses and theatre productions across Australia, and make custom costumes for soloists and groups.
Glitter & Dance supplies dance, performance and costume fabrics from its Capalaba showroom and online, including stretch and non-stretch fabrics, trims, sewing supplies and custom costume services. We work with dancers, parents, studios, costume makers, home sewers, small apparel businesses, drag performers and theatre productions across Australia.
Specialist fabric for people who make costumes
Glitter & Dance supplies fabrics and accessories for dancewear, performance garments and costumes. Our customers include individual dancers and parents, studios and teams, professional costume makers, home sewers, small apparel businesses, drag performers and theatre productions.
Performance fabric has a job to do. It may need to stretch and recover through rehearsals, hold a structured silhouette, drape softly, coordinate with other materials, or read a particular way under stage lighting. We help customers compare those differences before they cut, including stretch, finish, colour coordination, quantities and suitability for a particular pattern or project.
Areas we know well
Credentials and Australian Made licence
Glitter & Dance is an Australian Made Campaign licensee under licence #19096. The licence covers four product ranges: Ballet Skirts, Dance Costumes, Romantic Tutus and Tap Dance Costumes.
The Australian Made licence applies specifically to those named ranges and does not mean that every fabric, accessory or product sold by Glitter & Dance is Australian Made.
Practical experience
Customers can compare fabrics in person at the Capalaba showroom and ask about stretch, finish, colour coordination, quantities and costume requirements. Our Capalaba operation also includes an on-site workroom and sewing team.
Meet Karla Mifsud
Karla Mifsud is Business Manager at Glitter & Dance and runs the day-to-day business. She has five years of experience in the performance-wear and costume industry, with hands-on experience across activewear, costume making and specialist performance fabrics.
Karla previously founded and ran Obsessed Gymwear, where she developed practical experience in sport aerobics and performance wear, custom costume creation, stretch fabrics, fabric selection and colour coordination.
At Glitter & Dance, she works directly with makers, dancers, studios and teams on fabric selection, colour matching, performance fabrics including Mystique, costume requirements and custom costume projects.
What Karla enjoys most is seeing an idea progress from the first fabric and design choices through to a finished costume, then seeing children and athletes wear it proudly on stage.
How we work
We aim to give a home sewer making one garment and a studio planning a group the same standard of answer: clear information, realistic guidance and the ability to buy only what is needed.
You can visit the showroom to compare fabrics in person, ask about samples, order online across Australia, or contact us about international shipping.
Where to go next
Explore Stretch Fabrics and Non-Stretch Fabrics to compare the main fabric families, see Dance Costumes Australia for custom costume information, or visit Contact & Showroom to plan a Capalaba visit or send an enquiry.
Based in Capalaba, shipping across Australia and worldwide
Our showroom is at Unit 2/41 Neumann Road, Capalaba QLD 4157. Customers can visit Monday to Friday to see and compare fabrics in person. We ship orders across Australia and worldwide.
Need help choosing?
If you are not sure which fabric, finish or quantity suits your project, visit the Capalaba showroom or contact Glitter & Dance and tell us what you are making.