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A majorette is a performer who combines baton twirling with dance movements, primarily associated with marching bands during parades. Majorettes may alternatively spin flags, fire batons, maces, or rifles. Some performers incorporate cartwheels and flips, while others may twirl multiple batons at once. [1]
The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band "P Block". Instruments have been frequently used on the battlefield (for example the Iron Age carnyx and the medieval Ottoman military band [1]) but the modern marching band developed from European military bands formed in the Baroque period, partly influenced by the Ottoman tradition.
The Valdosta High School Marching Band Color Guard at the 2015 Greater Valdosta Community Christmas Parade. In a marching band or a drum and bugle corps, the color guard is a non-musical section that provides additional visual aspects to the performance. The marching band and color guard performance generally takes place on a football field.
A marching band out of a church on Detroit's east side has helped hundreds of young people earn scholarships. Detroit marching band, percussionists, dancers funded by program founder’s 9-5 job ...
The second line consists of people who follow the band to enjoy the music, dance, and engage in community. The second line's style of traditional dance , in which participants dance and walk along with the SAPCs in a free-form style with parasols and handkerchiefs, is called "second-lining".
Giffords led a procession of 39 floats, 21 marching bands and 16 equestrian units. Temecula Dance Company and Rose Parade Youth Dancers rally the early-morning crowds. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles ...
A Historically Black College and University marching band (also known as a HBCU band) is the marching band sponsored by a historically black college or university.A distinctive "HBCU-style" of marching band originated in the American South in the 1940s through the blending of earlier traditions of military music and minstrel shows with a performance repertoire based on popular song.
There were marching bands disguised as skeletons and dancers with skull face paint performing in Indigenous costumes. The smell of traditional resinous copal incense hung heavy over the parade.