Color Guard Essay

Putting 20 heads together and coming up with one wonderful piece isn’t necessarily the easiest thing to do. However, my color guard is beginning to get the hang of it. We are coming up with a class piece to perform in our showcase at the end of the year. The song we have chosen to this piece is Midnight City. The concept behind this piece is the remarkable growth of the Poinciana High School color guard. It starts with Natalie, our captain and the only senior on color guard alone on stage performing some work. She represents when she joined four years ago, and how small the guard was. Then two of our juniors, Abi and Jayda will enter and begin to perform some work with Natalie. They represent three years ago when they joined and how the color guard was still remarkably small. Then two of our sophomores, Milanie
They help make the band look even more beautiful and are also known as the auxiliary. But it’s really more than that. Color guard is a true test to physical strength and ability and it’s where I spend every waking hour trying to improve each toss, turn, and count. Color guard is where two, almost three dozen girls spend most of our free time practicing something that will not get us a job. It won’t pay us in anything but joy. And as cliché as that sounds, it’s true. Color guard will probably never give us more than thousands upon millions of life lessons. Yet, we all still do it because we love it. Color guard is striving to be the best you can be. It’s socializing with some people you can’t stand half the time because somehow they became like family and mean more than the world to you. It’s sacrificing so many Fridays to do what you love, and it’s sacrificing your face and hair to tons of hairspray and glitter so you can stand out on a field and make the band look just as beautiful as they