After the fall season is over, we start to learn our final piece, the State routine. This routine is four to five minutes long, and since we are in the Show division, we get to dance with props, and a…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. Fall Competition Season
During the fall season, we learn two or three routines that we then take to competition. This year we learned a contemporary and a jazz routine. Not everyone on the team is in the dances, only those Coach Stephanie thinks…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. Football Season
During the year, we perform various routines at school assemblies, football and basketball games. Most of the routines are the ones we learned from the two camps, but some are choreographed by our three captains. One of the assembly dances…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. NW Dance Camp
The second big event we did as a team was Northwest dance camp. We hosted the camp at Glencoe, and we got to go home every night. It was similarly structured to Thunderbird, but it was a lot less crowded…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. Thunderbird Camp
When I started high school, I auditioned for the dance team. I’ve only been on the team a year, but they’re already like a second family. As a team, we practice up to four hours every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday,…
How to take over the wor.. I mean, how to survive 8th Grade
Taking over the world is a simple task when you think about it. Here, at Evergreen, the teachers know exactly how to do it. They also try to destroy you in the process, because they all would like to have…
Jump 2017
March 10th has rolled around again, bringing with it the JUMP dance convention. Located in the Portland Convention center, it lasts the whole weekend, from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Mom and I woke up early to make it on…