Guard Diva
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Hey folks, posted this a while back, but I need a copy of Blue Knights Winterguard from (I think) 1987...the show was called Saturday Knight Fever or something to that effect.....All I remember is it was Saturday Knight something or other...I have a friend who marched in that show and she doesn't have a copy...would love to be able to locate a copy for her birthday.....anyone???
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the problem I have is that, while there are not enough guard instructors in the area to go around, there are enough that will do it for much less than me. They don't have the experience, and the directors here don't care about that...they basically want a warm body. Even the top schools I work for only paid me 3000 for the fall season. The problem is, I enjoy teaching and if I stand firm on a price, I won't be teaching any longer. Plus the guards would be taught by inferior instructors and the guard would get incrementally worse each year, turning out less experienced kids, to become the new crop of less experienced instructors....and eventually the activity I love s odearly would completely die out in teh this area. I don't want to see that happen, so i work for less money.
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Scott Chandler does it. but he designs all over the world and serves on various pageantry committees.
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Everyone should check out www.creative-costuming.com Excellent designs and so affordable! Give them your business folks - Noreen Roberts is amazing!
Will Stevenson
Director of Color Guard
Lexington Christian Academy
Union County High School
West Jessamine High School
HA!!! Amazing is right...amazing she is still in business!!!!! I had an absolutely HORRIBLE experience with her 2 years ago and a as a result, won't buy from her ever again.
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already posted in junior corps thread....and closed by admins.....won't be long before this one gets closed as well.
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I agree, there is a limit to what can be done, but you can also get some nice effects you can't get with as straight pole. And you can still spin and toss them. Their curved shape carries them right around quite nicely.
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I made a set of curved poles a few years ago. Home Depot sells a pipe bender, it's hard to get tehm all the same curve and consistency, so what one of my guard dads did was take 3 pieces of plywood and cut 2 of them into a large half circle, slightly smaller than the shape we wanted. He then cut another half circle slightly smaller than the other 2 and nailed the three of them together, with the smaller of the 3 half circles in the middle (think of an oreo cookie cut in half, with the smaller of the half circles being the cream filling). He put some kind of a fitting over one end of the arc that you can slip the end of the pole into. Lay the pole on teh ground, and then you basically "roll" the circle edge of the hald circle along the pole, with the pole righting right up against the groove between the 2 outer half circles. With one end of the pole inside the fitting, it forces the pole to bend into the circle shape. Note that you make the circle slightly smaller than what you want becuase when you take the pole out, it won't stay exactly eh size of the wooden circle....the pipe bends, but does bounce back just a bit.
Does any of that make sense?
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for what it's worth, there was a story, at elast fromt eh guard standpoint in 2004. I'm not sure it was ever explained on DCP or tot he audiences, and as a result, I'm not sure anyone "got it".......but it certainly was by far the best guard show I've ever performed in and the audience seemed to enjoy the show, even if they didn't understand the through line.
Perhaps telling the story here will help some of the audience understand what it is the Renegades are portraying on the field so they can "get it" even more.
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C'mon, what was wrong with that? It fit the theme, and it was one of the biggest applause moments in their show that year!
If throwing a frisbee is one of your bigggest applause moments of the year, I think you need new design staff!
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I've seen that. I always have a problem with high school kids wearing skin tight or revealing uniforms...as it generally goes against the schools' dress codes, plus it looks like you're showing favoritism to the thin girls by putting them in something "sexy" or "cute" while the big girls get all the extra material.
For corps, I have no problem with it as long as it fits the show concept, but putting the small girls in something skimpy just because they're thin... I can't agree with that.
I didn't mean sexy or cute, skin tight or revealing.....I just meant that some uniforms are not as flattering on bigger girls and having multiple uniforms is one way to accomodate that. 2 years ago, I had all skinny kids, and still deliberatly chose 4 different uniforms, and then mixed up the color placement on each one, so that even teh 4 girls in Uniform A had completely different uniforms via color placement, even they they were in the same style uniform. It made for an incredibly nice look...wish I still had those uniforms!
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there is another option that I used at one of my schools and I learned it from the senior corps I marched in....use color and fabric to create texture and creat ethe unifying theme.........but have 3-4 different uniform styles.....something appropriate for each size....the tiny girls can wear teh skin tight, revealing outfit, whereas the bigger girls can get somethign that compliments them as well.....it gives a anice textured look on the field and floor as well, while letting everyone be comfortable in what they are wearing.
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then you should watch the video, becuase it's pretty friggin funny!!!!!!
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I vote for Freelancers 89-94..............but of course that won't happen, so I'll just watch them at home on my own tv.
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my high school played an arrangement just last year on the field. we chopped it up and rearranged it and had 2 differnet melodies being played at once from opposite sides of the field.
It's easier to get forgiveness than permission!
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look up '92 Bluecoats!
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I would imagine WGI will rule the same way with these as they did with the sickles.
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Not to mention shockingly less pleasant to look upon...
says you. I would actually LIKE it.
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Yes it should have an age limit. This is a youth activity. Once you hit a certain age, you no longer fit that mold. Not to mention, if there was no age limit then we would almost certainly never see any new talent enter into DCI (just a bunch of middle aged people). Not that there is anything wrong with being middle aged or above, but as previously stated...this is a youth activity. I accept that fact.
by "youth activity", I assume you mean DCI, not drum corps, because one only has to look at DCA to knwo that drum corps is most certain certainly not a youth ONLY activity.
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and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what this activity is all about! Raising young men and women to have class and integrity!
In 2004, I had 4 perofrmers.............and 19 props, plus a floor........we would have had a heck of a time had it not been for the random competitiors, miscellaneous parents, and other guards who helped us on and off the floor at each and every show!
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Understood, but I also think there's a big difference between a show that's meant to pay tribute or document troubling events -- after all, Union's "Holocaust" show certainly did -- and a show that was quite obviously meant to provide shock value, and did so in a very deliberately provocative fashion. Again, we're talking a high school setting here, not an independent one. And, given the fact that it's a high school group, who's going to be in the audience? A whole lotta teens. For me, that's the central concept that trying to push "art" at the high school level must take care with.
I know it's not the subject of this thread, but I'd be interested in hearing people's views on Dublin high's Schindler's list show.....the imagery presented in that show is FAR more haunting in my opinion than Northmont 97 was.....perhaps it's because Dublin's show prtrayed an actual event in history.
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Oh, crud. Now I have to choose.
or if you are nice, you could send me a PM.....I just HAPPEN to have 93-06 IW and SW all on DVD.
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1995 Blue Devils - WOW their best one IMPO. I think it's ALMOST better than 1996 (the record score year).
yes, better than Summertime....but not nearly as interesting or visually entertaining at 97 - White Rabbit show entitled "what the Doormouse said"
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1995 Blue Devils (I'm especially curious to know more about this one, "The Children's Hour of Dream")
good show....also done by BD on the field that summer......
another you really should add is Escapade 95!
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Hey, Will, I take it this is among the stuff headed my way?
OOOHhh...is Will copying videos?????
I would love a copy of whatever you're sending to Sue....
AS for 95 Northmont.....one of my all time favorites.....I have never done drag, but if I ever did, this version of Somewhere is one I would do!
California Indoor Senior Guards?
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Yes, as a mater of fact you ARE......Freelancers Drum and Bugle corps has started the alumni and friends hornline. Drum line and COLORGUARD should be starting later this fall. It won't be competitive, but it IS a chance to get togehter and spin, and Don wants to do some performances as well.......... PM me in the future to inquire if there are any details yet.