I know I'm reaching an incredibly niche audience with posting drum corps content, but here's some of my favorite moments of this year's DCI shows. Also really liked Phantom (as usual lol, another year another season where I love Troopers, Crown, and Phantom), but I don't have a great recording of them.
Sadly most of these clips are weeks old (except Troop I managed to get their performance from Atlanta today 🤫) and these shows are even better now, so if any of these interest you, I suggest seeking out more recent recording and look out in a couple weeks for the Finals shows in Indy!
“If you’ve seen “Spartacus” — if you haven’t, go watch it, fall in love with this beautiful activity all over again, and then come back and keep reading — think about that show for a minute. Other than a brief opening moment and prior to the ballad, when is there a truly resounding impact melody in that show? Even the ballad itself is only half of a true pay-off.”
I'm currently watching DCI (hardcore marching band) in the theaters and it does have me remembering being in marching band and performing some, and I know its probably a semi niche group that might understand the specificity of it - but I like to suspect it applies similarly to any large group performance activity
But parts language and "being part of a whole" doesnt invalidate my individuality anymore than choosing to wear a uniform that makes me nearly indescernable from my peers makes me any less of an individual
And in the same vein, parts language can have a very similar empowering and healing effect as performing with nearly indescernable peers and - a specific experience of ours - ripping into a hard feature that can ONLY be done with a large team effort and when done right as a team creates this very proud, very whole experience even when these are people in seperate bodies.
We are parts of a whole and parts of a team and that allows us to regularly experience that group synergy and flow. That moment of perfect coordination and being on the same page that can only be experienced when you are just a part of a greater and larger whole.
Its a sense of pack-hood flock-hood pride-hood. That inherent collective success and inherent belonging and the understanding that despite you being indescernable, what the group has achieved would not have been possible without you - even if you are only 1/100th of the team.
Even as a small part, you are invaluable to the huge result that can come from the greater whole.
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