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What is winterguard?
Winter color guard is a competitive indoor pageantry activity. Color guards perform
intricately choreographed productions on a gym floor transformed into a theatrical setting
via floor coverings, scenery and props. Performers use flags, rifles, and sabres, combined
with dance and movement, to demonstrate skills and interpret the music. They often wear
costumes to compliment the musical selections.
This program demands total body activity, involving muscle tone, timing and
simultaneous coordination of the head, arms, legs and torso. In addition to these physical
demands, winter color guard also helps build discipline, control and poise. These are
skills that can be used throughout one’s life, including in the classroom today and in the
workforce of the future.
Levels of competition separate the novice performers from the more experienced
ones. Trained judges evaluate each group on the quality of their individual and ensemble
performance skills, as well as the effect created by the combination of design and
performance.
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