scheherazadesghost

Most excellent. Similar about Bugs Bunny, but admittedly, before I got to SCV, I may have already been able to pinpoint various composers... and I may have had a bumper sticker on my teenager car that said "Yo quiero Pachelbel." Supporting the local classical station like a boss!

Thanks for the lore, I didn't know about those examples. As you said, this isn't limited to drum corps. I've worked for various sizes of nonprofits. The biggest ones, with international reach, still had to hustle hard to maintain their local support. One full time position for grants, another for development (ie donor cultivation), two for marketing/audience management. I'll never forget the the ED of The American Dance Festival having to put up with one of their largest donor's antics in public, fairly humiliating stuff. All to maintain his patronage and good graces. This is the company that originally and continually funded Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, Bill T Jones etc...THE greats. The modern dance legacy lives in large part because of them. Even then, locals not in the dance scene in Durham mostly barely know about them because the mission wasn't about Durham and hyper locality. It was about keeping the whole of American contemporary and modern dance afloat. The local focus was maintained via their large local sponsors. That's about it.

It's almost like nonprofits and other community-focused programs should be run by people who have run nonprofits before. Not just folks people like who went thru the programming, but who have no proven professional skills in the thing they're doing. Too many people think they can just take the money and run. That's strategically inefficient at best, and unethical/illegal at worst.

I learned something today, thank you. Was actually referring to SCV 03 with opener and closer in Orawa. 😉

💪🏽😎 Obscure af and never would've known about it otherwise.

Give Snarky Puppy a try. 😎👍🏽

SCV 09 - dedicated lots of undergrad and grad study to Graham's movement principles and those based on her work SCV 13 - I was listening to Les Miz as a kid instead of making friends...I would have raged incredibly hard to this show SCV 14 - yeah, trombones in my face is just one of the bazillion reasons I'm sad I missed this one

I'm generally happy that Michael James has returned. I've seen his name in other staff rosters recently though, and alas, simultaneously none of the signature grace, poise, and complexity I recall from his choreography. Hoping that's different this season and that designers give him something lyrical and phrase-heavy to work with. Did I also mention his choreography is some of the safest I've seen across colorguard history? Safe as in, reducing injuries both present and future. Perhaps my tirades about un-pointed feet got through to someone... MJ sparked my early career into dance two decades ago there and I genuinely wish for similar and more inspiration for future alum.

This is all I care about right now:

"Yelling works to motivate me," is still not strong enough evidence to convince most here that it is an effective educational strategy for youth. I pointed out why a few comments back. And literally no one is arguing that yelling to be heard over distances is abuse. To misuse the TAOS resource like it has been here means that posters didn't read the intro provided at that link about power imbalances. That's a key ingredient.

I think yelling is only effective for bigger people or those who back it up with worse behaviors. Yelling was never a strategy that would work for a petite thing like me, so I went to graduate school and became a pedagogue. Here's some backup nuance that mostly affirms your point: https://www.winnersunlimited.com/does-screaming-at-athletes-work It's only superficially effective and only to a point... for those it actually works for. The rest of us have to work on building trust and effective communication skills.

I bring it up when it applies, but thanks for including the small dig. It cheapens your apology. I still regularly have to explain to people I marched alongside that it happened, so I'm not sorry this space gets an earful. Not everybody has had the life experiences by the time they march that enable them to bounce back from what you minimize as yelling once or twice. They should still be welcome in the activity. And some of us were taught by world class educators without yelling before we got to corps, so standards were set and not met. And obviously, false accusations should be investigated and outright liars should be held accountable. But unfortunately yelling can be and has been a tell tale sign of worse behavior across the activity and its history. Zero tolerance for a behavior that several other posters here have already affirmed is unnecessary and potentially harmful. Life is tough enough without it. Yelling to toughen someone up to "prepare them for life" is abusive. BD doesn't shout at their members. Bloo doesn't shout at their members. I hope there are more. Be like them and reap the rewards. I expressed concern about the Troop guard after my first viewing last season. Knew nothing of the instructors. Some of us can see undue challenge in performance.

That was me with the handbook resource. TAOS is a predominant resource on the prevention of abuse in sport, so minimizing its import looks bad on you. 61% of athletes globally report abuse. Fact. Wanna come at me with the accusation that I couldn't cut it in this activity? That also won't look good on you. The man that abused me came from the Cadets btw. Confirmed and corroborated by VMAPA.

Sure. Sometimes. It's therefore lazy "teaching" at best, and the enablers around them let it happen.

The Army of Survivors disagrees. https://thearmyofsurvivors.org/abuse-in-sports/

That's riding some ancient wisdom there. Thanks for the insight. All the more excited now. 🐉

I've seen the threats on Fb via screenshot that alum keep denying happened. You can't yell fire in a crowded auditorium, but that's what at least two alumni have done. Just cause one alum troll didn't do it doesn't mean it didn't happen. 🤯 That, coupled with behavior on this platform (un-moderated doxxing, stalking, menacing, validated victim blaming), on reddit (doxxing that resulted in an immediate ban and stalking from u/Terry_D_1161), and the un-moderated original SVVoice article are plenty to take to authorities. It doesn't matter if it's anon or different people, they all intentionally tie themselves to the org, so the org holds the weight of responsibility.

Understood and thank you. I'm a Traditional Chinese Medicine girl and integrate it into my massage therapy practice as well. Wishing you all the blessings with your shoulder. 😎

... aside from friendly-fire, yes. I noted the friendly-fire 20 years ago. Apparently some DCPers here did too. So I defiantly put down the stupid prop scimitar at the end of 04 for a ####### reason, such that it's now sealed in film in perpetuity whether Vanguard likes it or not. I witnessed it and endured it as a kid and now again, as a professional who can call the red flags as I see them, with nationally-recognized backup resources. By all accounts from young alum I've spoken to, it never really stopped. And here we are.

Thank you for your service. I didn't know. This is my take as well, as someone who wanted to join the military but whose family laughed when I brought it up. They were right. Super special summer band was tough enough for me anyway apparently. It's also part of why I listen to the military intelligence alumni (plural) that I do. I'm practically a butterfly by comparison. Also, I never fed the military metaphors in this predicament. At best I pointed out that the alum naysayers were friendly-firing this whole time and I have the wounds to prove it. And receipts. Respectfully to all involved, likening this to warfare cheapens the whole thing, at least as far as I'm involved. Am close to a Nam combat vet. What we're going through pales in comparison and he doesn't have to say a word about what he endured.

Sorry to all others reading here, feel free to ignore. Apparently my alum stalker reads everything I post here and responds menacingly under the old SVVoice article, referring to me by actual name. They are obviously afraid to respond here or other platforms because they know others will come to my defense. I have a strong sense of who they are and haven't yet gone to the authorities. Both the CEO and alum officers were made aware of this days ago though. They continue to do nothing, likely because they don't know what to do and this person is still hiding behind anonymity. I'm asking you now to stop and leave me alone or I will go to the authorities. I'm trying to pull away from my activity here and elsewhere and failing to do so, in part, because I'm still being attacked. They are actively victim blaming and gaslighting. Still. Just as they did when they were on this platform months ago. Leave me alone.

My faith in him stems from the fact that he's likely navigated more complicated bureaucracies in his previous work. Holding your place in academia alone should provide some modicum of literacy in this stuff. But he definitely has an uphill battle. Reminder that I was encouraged to apply for the board several years back. After interacting with one director and discovering the other that heads up onboarding, I noped out of that so fast. For my own wellbeing. Little has changed, except to add that they seem to struggle with maintaining diversity at the board level. I can't bear being a token in that place again. Edit to add: Apparently, my engaging anywhere online on any platform gives some of my fellow alum the right to continue with personal attacks while continuing to hide behind anonymity. Another reminder: stalking isn't legal. "Cyberstalking behaviors may include tracking down someone’s personal and private information and using it to make them afraid ... or posting about them incessantly and without their permission." https://cyberbullying.org/cyberstalking

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💪🏽 Ty Terri. It means a lot to hear that from you, genuinely. Beyond them, the whole experience has still proven very triggering for me so we will have to see. Flo might be it for me for a while. 6-8 hrs one way just to be triggered is a tall order. An old timer Troop vet comforted me last time though, which was nice.

A lovely idea. But this is a giant barrier. This stuff is enmeshed and engrained over decades and so many of us have given up. Myself included now after a recent public and humiliating spat with another alum. Their drive to humiliate and friendly-fire other alum they disagree with seems endless. I want nothing to do with them and feel less safe to attend a show now than ever. I hope others still standing are stronger than me. Cue the trolls crying "me me me" in response to my sharing of my own experiences, which is all I have left now.