DWW11 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 44 minutes ago, denverjohn said: dancing flowers BoRhap is my very favorite song but that was just plain strange. (Fred probably would have loved it, tho!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 1 hour ago, lowend said: The director should have left well enough alone and just done a slow fade into majority dance over a couple of years. My band has all three auxiliary groups - guard, dance, and majorettes - and it's a pain to design around. You also get petty squabbles between auxiliary groups, entitlement/chips on the shoulder if one does better, etc. a slow fade wouldn't work. the instructor is too known and too respected and it would have been noticed. Whitney basically brought the guard program back from the dead. this is a program people watch like a hawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Terri Schehr said: That’s what it must be like for these huge university marching bands. The Marching Illini only have/had one baton twirler but a flag line and the dance team. Plus, 350 musicians. Sounds like your basic nightmare to me and they do different shows every home game. welcome to Big 10 ( or 18) life. though PSU still has a full twirler squad. Dance Team generally isn't involved with the Blue Band 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keystone3ply Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, lowend said: The director should have left well enough alone and just done a slow fade into majority dance over a couple of years. My band has all three auxiliary groups - guard, dance, and majorettes - and it's a pain to design around. You also get petty squabbles between auxiliary groups, entitlement/chips on the shoulder if one does better, etc. No way, this would never happen. Shocked! 😂 Edited December 1, 2023 by keystone3ply cx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KVG_DC Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Having a Dance Squad and a Guard is very 80's Indiana band. The dance squad was called the pom squad though but the actual use of poms went out of the marching show by 81 or 82 I think. They were effectively a dance squad. They'd have some little mini flags they'd do for a portion of the show but generally were a separate auxiliary from the spinners who were the Color Guard. They unified them as a single guard in my time in the mid to late 80s and the uproar about "I will NOT carry a FLAG from some of the longstanding poms was hilariously dumb." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keystone3ply Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Wow; found this forum via google. I'm sure there's more info but that first plan seems like a 'bone head' decision by the band director. https://www.txbands.com/forums/topic/15470-discontinuing-color-guard/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Lancer Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 52 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said: welcome to Big 10 ( or 18) life. though PSU still has a full twirler squad. Dance Team generally isn't involved with the Blue Band And Michigan’s drum major is a BAC alum! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 10 minutes ago, Jurassic Lancer said: And Michigan’s drum major is a BAC alum! I read that. Good for him! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbandguy Posted December 1, 2023 Author Share Posted December 1, 2023 Well...if you guys are determined to bring college bands into the discussion... TBDBITL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 5 minutes ago, oldbandguy said: Well...if you guys are determined to bring college bands into the discussion... TBDBITL No flags, all brass. Sounds good to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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