Watercolour Dancewear - Hand-painted Chiffon Skirts, Dresses, Leotards, and Liturgical Fashions

Correspondence

Oak Grove High School Winter Guard

We performed this season to Wynonna Judd's "Flies on the Butter"....

Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter,

a hole in the screen door as big as your fist and flies on the butter

Black top road, a faded yellow center line it can't take you back to the place but it can't take you back in time

You can dream about it every now and then but you can't go home again.....

Tomoko Ozawa, M.D., Ph.D., Co-founder, TK Fundraising Productions - Dancing for a Cure:

I would like to thank you very much for providing "T's Dance Inspiration Ballet Ensemble" such wonderful costumes for the annual dance festival, "Spring Dance Inspiration 2009 - a cure for brain tumors", which was held in March 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

Here is a Video link that you may be interested in viewing it and you can see dancers in your costumes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX4RO6RwWUo.

Stephanie Page, Miss Mendocino County, 2008:

Thank you so much for creating my beautiful, flawless, and fabulous dance costume for Miss Mendocino. I truly appreciate you creating my costume on such short notice, and taking the time to make sure it was perfect. All of you are talented, generous, and great! Thanks for allowing me to represent Watercolour through dance.

Miss Mendocino 2008

Diana Entwistle and John Fisher, England:

I was just looking at your photo gallery and I am sending you a picture of my skating partner and I in our Watercolour costumes. The photo gallery was really helpful when I was picking which costumes John and I should buy. We were at an international skating competition (in Dunkirk France) and competed at the highest level – Masters – we won the gold medal!

Diana Entwistle and John Fisher, England

Roxanne Larcher, Artistic Director, Roxanne’s Desert Flames:

Thank you so very much for the beautiful skirts. They are the perfect touch to finishing the costumes for Roxanne’s Desert Flames, a professional Egyptian Belly Dance Troupe. Your craftsmanship is sophisticated and elegant – when the Flames perform, everyone stops in their tracks - the beauty of the dance and the costumes leave people breathless! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Roxanne's Desert Flames

Kansas and Watercolour Dancewear debut in the Big Apple: view the Times Square Kansas Commercial Online (Windows Media); (Quicktime version). In the commercial a dancer wearing a Watercolour dress performs in the Flint Hills.

From Miss America 2006, Jennifer Berry of Oklahoma, performing in a Watercolour Dancewear dress. Click on the images for a larger view.

From Tracey, Gravity Dance Company:

Here are two pictures of Gravity Dance Company performing our award-winning dance competition routine "Daughters." These costumes lent so much flow and fluidity to our dance. Never did we EVER hear a competition judge who DIDN'T comment on the gorgeous costumes!! Many thanks!

From Margaret Stivers, Silver Wings Flight Team:

Enclosed is a photo of one of your watercolor dresses up on the wing of a bi-plane while it is doing a barrel roll. Proof positive that your dresses are strong, yet beautiful. I have very high praise for your work.

(An additional photo showing Margaret wing-walking is shown below. Click on each image for a larger view).

From Deborah:

I wanted to thank you for making the (skating) dress for my daughter. She loved it. Several of her girlfriends have remarked on how perfect the dress is for her music. Also, two of the coaches at our rink have commented that you are truly an artist, not just a dress maker.

From Tammy:

This past weekend, my 11-yr old daughter wore one or your dresses for her lyrical solo at her first dance competition of the year. I wish you could have seen her when she came out of the dressing room. Everyone just stood and stared at her. She looked absolutely beautiful! Many people came up to me and asked, "Where did you get that dress?" I told them from an amazing company called Watercolour.

From Sharon:

This (leotard design) has competed in several competitions and won 1st place overall everywhere - the choreographer won a "Choreographer's Award". Your costumes received top marks everywhere they have gone.

Dancers

From Suzanne:

I wanted to take a moment and thank you so much for all of your help with the costumes. They were just beautiful and our company's premier performances were a great success. Thanks in part to your wonderful costumes and all your extra efforts. We should be doing a late spring or early summer production so I'm sure you'll be hearing from me again. Thank you for beautiful, simple costumes that present a professional look to our performances at a price we can afford. We are so grateful to you for your lovely designs.

From our archives: Hillary Clinton:

Thank you for helping us to bring the magic of the "Nutcracker" to the White House 1996 Holiday Season. Your generous contribution to the White House holiday decorations brought the joy of the season to thousands of visitors at this very special time of year.(Note: That year Hillary requested ornaments from every ballet company in the US after a request from Chelsea. The Mendocino Ballet asked Watercolour Dancewear to provide the ornament for them, which was a beautiful dancing doll in a Watercolour dress.)