Musical_Spinner

Don't spin elites, get a king. Lol. Pretty basic.

I fully expect Diamante to make finals......I'll be pulling for them all season.

No fantasia? That kills my interest in the season by about 30 percent.

Using the name of the song is bad imo, if your show has nothing to do with it or is a translation of the song. In guards I have been in we have heard specific feedback on our show title so I wouldn't be too quick to say the judges won't notice something a little out of the ordinary.

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I've been a victim of the sparkle master class once myself. Glitter+gorilla glue= months of shimmer.

As far as I can tell color guard is alive and well and growing in Texas even. Only one or two I know of have a hybrid with the drill team or something to that effect. Of course guards are hard to come by in smaller programs but that's nothing new.

True about the circular argument but what you can do is find different methods in getting the existing members to improve and hopefully make it a positive experience for them to return. While DCA corps are very accommodating to the work week warriors perhaps an extra practice or two for the guard wouldn't hurt (if you are not already doing this). Personally, I would not undertake a guard during the end of my senior year in college (graduating in June even) but I would definitely love to perhaps help with basic movement skills and theories as dance is my major if you are in a pinch. (edit: school is 200 miles from Houston, also a problem)

My comments are based on what I have seen in person at the shows. GCS performers aren't grounded in basic technique. I've seen it first hand. Yes there is experience to be had and disciplined that is probably learned but when it comes down to it, guards are going to take the talent over the experience. It's so competitive in Texas to get into Crossmen (for instance) or Bluecoats or any other corps with a good guard with auditions here, that experience in a DCA corps isn't going to hold much water......especially Gulf Coast Sound, and it pains me to say that. You think they are going to take a complete rookie who can toss a good five or a member who can't but has experience in DCA? Obviously it depends on the attitude as well, but all signs point to the rookie who can toss a five. I'm not saying you shouldn't take a willing member that will work hard, but it seems like there needs to be a higher standard for the GCS guard in regards to technique and performance if the guard is ever to really make monumental improvements. This is a staff member issue, and I don't know who is on the staff for the upcoming year but I hope they decide to push harder for improvement. My original comment was more directed towards GCS which is why I cited them. You guys exhibit more technique in performance and more vocabulary.

Huge choreographer that broke boundaries of formal ballet partnership to something more expressive with classical vocabulary, something that wgi has used for sure: George Balanchine.

What is hard is that the kids from Texas experience marching band here that is so competitive and the DCA corps here simply do not offer that same level of competition. And if I am being pretty honest, by looking at the Texas dca corps if someone were to get cut I doubt the DCA corps would be able to really put the cut member at a level to make it through those competitive auditions in the junior corps the following year. There are a ton of guard people in Texas that can teach and have successful guards but it hardly looks like any of the DCA guards are tapping into that teaching talent. You think any of the guard members from big Houston schools with successful programs are going to learn at Gulf Coast Sound? I REALLY doubt it.

Didn't Sac just shorten it to Santisimmo Sacramento? How about 2004 Light Brigade? Wasn't it "Love baby love/what a wonderful world"??? What about the best named shows like Esperanza's "An Apple a Day" or Winston Churchills "Dangers of Conformity"

That isn't a long title..that is a good length and accurately (I hope) describes the show concept. No real fuss. All this is opinion of course. I thought you were going to name something from like the past, not the future, lol.

Lol unless my memory has just failed tkyr hasn't exactly been mr./ms nice in the past either.......

non beveled= pain. (then again beveled=pain if you're catching it right!)

So no examples?

We had a really long show title, officially but when it was announced it was shortened....until WGI finals that is. It had to sound pretty for the dvd.

Example?

I think we are expecting good things from SCV after last year, hopefully they don't disappoint! The zydeco show looks very intriguing. Hopefully we get a lot of varied show ideas this year, I hate years that kind of hold a theme or a certain music feeling from guard to guard.

The staff isn't working outside of their comfort zone. The groups consistently in finals are either pushing their boundaries and moving up (NEi, Onyx) in staging or they aren't and staying where they are or are falling out of finals.

I feel like this has really gone by the wayside in recent years in world class. Especially in the lower half of world class finalists.

If this is such a problem of this poster then hit the report button and report that this news information should not be posted, complaining about it doesn't do much except make the complainers involved seem whiny especially when they could just NOT read it. Lets all jump on the band-judgment-wagon, why don't we?

I have no idea while you are quoting me. I am not "continuing to beat up this man over and over" This is the first time I weighed in. I didn't include my personal opinion about this at all except I am skeptical that a lot of people are going to want to help him. I am not taking any pleasure in this personally, I have no idea about other people. I don't know the man personally, and would get no satisfaction in him going to jail or whatever might happen. Attitude is hard to discern over the internet, if you think I am on a high horse then that's what you think but your little snide comments leads the conversation in a different direction.

Needs support from the color guard world to overcome his "problems"?????? His life will never be normal again if he is guilty and I highly doubt people working with teenagers in the activity are going to want to help him. I'm sure he will never do this again if found guilty, problem solved. And if he does then he'd need professional help if the court doesn't already appoint any.

I'm sorry you need to go re-read my post and please quote where I said you were out of touch, I simply noticed that it sounded like there was an age difference which could attribute to our different philosophies. All you had to say is that you disagreed rather than putting words into my mouth. There is never any secret explanation of what I might be thinking or meaning, it's all there on your page to read. Moving on I am not worried about winning trophies. I marched in a guard that never won first place after I graduated high school but I learned extremely valuable lessons that carry on to today. You guessed wrong about what I am worried about. I am rather disgusted by your generalizations about my character.