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Lindsay Fagan, social officer for the Texas
Aggie Dance Team and junior zoology ma
jor, entered A&M and its dance team as a
freshman.
“Coming to college in general was a huge
adjustment but being on the dance team en
hanced my social life. All of a sudden I had
25 more friends,” Fagan said
Fagan said the girls on the dance team are
very close and have been emailing each oth
er during the summer.
“We’ve become such good friends, and
we’re with each other all the time,” Fagan
said. “I miss all the girls that went home for
the summer.”
Kristy Coyle, co-captain and a senior en
gineering major, said the dance team not
only dances together but parties together.
“It’s like another sorority,” Coyle said.
“We have social mixers and ditte parties.”
As social officer, Fagan has her hands hill
year round. Fagan is in charge of promoting
the dance team to high school dance and drill
teams and assisting the newly developed
alumni association for former team members.
While the dance team has been around
the last 13 years, they only acquired their ili-
rector, Jennifer Hart, nine years ago.
Fagan said before the team had a direc
tor, they were not supported by many A&M
organizations and were rarely given the op
portunity to perform.
“Since she’s been here, we’re now able to
perform for every men and women’s basket
ball game, some soccer games and volleyball
games,” Fagan said.
lb keep up with the demand for their
many performances, Coyle and co-captain
Courtney Martin, create about 30 routines
each season.
The dance team also performs for the
community at pep rallies at Bryan High
School and performed at a Dallas Mavericks
game. This year, they hope to perform be
fore the crowd at a Houston Rockets game.
All dancers on the team must maintain good
grades during die school year to perfonn.
“It (the dance team) helps you organize
your time and set goals for yourself and
achieve them,” Laura Bland, social chair and
junior biomedical sciences major, said.
“Academics come first and then dance
team,” Fagan said. “Since we’re under the
athletic department we must keep a certain
[grade point ratio] to dance.”
II a dancer does not meet the required
GPR of 2.0, they are still required to attend
all practices and check in with their director.
Last March, the dance team placed first
at the American Dance and Drill Team As
sociation competition in Denton, Texas.
The girls trained with choreographers two
ol three Sundays each month at the Power
house of Dallas to perfect their routine.
Fagan said their choreographers, Roger
Lee, who is currently touring with Janet
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Jackson, and Kim McSwain, challenjj
girls with tough routines.
“They challenge us until we say,‘We
do diis anymore!,”’ Fagan said.
The dance team practices two how
day, six days per week during the spring
mester and while the team usually has
summers off this year, 11 ol the 23 dainB" CcHTipt/
will be attending the four-day UnicBj^ ^ conf
Dance Association camp in SanMarcosH
compete for a spot at the NationalCon:W CastlHQ
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meet twice each week to maintain their: ' e fl nes F ” a 1 3-v
ibility and improve their technique. Jrr : 'ting the
also keep their bodies in shape w
weight-training program, 30minutesof;
diovascular exercise or a four-mile
around West Campus.
f ifty teams will be competing in San' jjy' f orlidditL
cos this weekend. The dance teamw: j 0I g Q t 0 Ac
competing against dance teams tfomthelrrcrry and die
versity of Texas-Austin, Sam Houston' N Sidelines linlj;
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Kach team learns 10 routines and is evWd nbl drie!
uated on the last day of the camp. Onlyir national ri
teams from each division get an alkojwM j
es paid trip to Florida. Bas A&M r(i
Last vear, the Texas Aggie Dance TeJo the Assoc it:
tied with UT’s dance team for BestCctp 1 M tH KS
giate Dance Team. »lumesand$:
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we re really 7 pumped,” said Fagan
think this vear is the year to do it.”
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The Fire Ants and class of 2000, said. “Normal
ly, the music dictates how you write your story.
The words are not the most important thing in
writing a song; the words kind of come from the
song, at least for me personally.”
The Fire Ants have about twenty original songs,
and are in the process of writing songs for their
second CD.
The guys in Feeding Five Thousand take a dif
ferent approach to creating music.
“Scott (lead singer Scott Taylor) has written all
the songs,” St. Clair said. “Lie plays through the
song and we’ll add our own parts. We’re more help
with the music part.”
So for them, the writing process ends up being
a group effort.
“We’ll put as much emphasis on writing collec
tively,” St. Clair said. “We’ll kind of bounce ideas
off of each other.”
For Kruckenberg, songwriting is a spontaneous
activity.
“If I don’t get it written right away, I’ll lose that
feeling, that emotion,” Kruckenberg said. “All
songwriting is for me is an outlet for some extreme
emotion. There’s no rhyme or reason to the way I
write songs.”
Once the songs are written and the bugs have
been worked out of them, the band can begin to
record a CD.
“It’s important to get your stuff recorded, so that
you can go ahead and get your name out there,”
Ellis said.
Ellis and Feeding Five Thousand recently won
a battle of the bands contest in Austin and have
three of their songs entered in an online contest
that could help them win a record deal with MCA
Records.
They are competing against 40 bands na
tionwide, and won a similar contest in Austin
after a club owner gave their CD to KLBJ ra
dio station.
“We didn’t even know we were in it till we had
won,” St. Clair said. “We have been pretty fortu-
was attemptin
nate to have a lot of things that other bands mightsek that wa:
riot have had early on.” '[ en - Upon furt
For 1101, recording has been helpful, butno:B n 'K e y fo un
.. b r ■ssion of "crai
necessarily easy. Ellison reported
The first time we (recorded), Jatzlau saiA n l c | c ^ ec |
“Shadow [Canyon] wanted us urget somethinbrnmate. Dawn
ready for the radio to publicize. We sat uptherefin slater arrested,
the recording studio) all night, from about 10:01'Pol ice learnec
at night to 7:00 in the morning.” ‘/B a fo n 9 w '
King said making a COD is an involved process**] ^ obtain st
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After recording all of the individual ,nstrumen y jt ems f r0 m gr
and vocal parts in the studio, which may ta^Bf-jn-iarily loti
/■cigarettes. 1
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The first time we [recorded], m an y win
r, , * , ti use the mo
Shadow Canyon wanted us to , C k
cocaine.
get something ready for the Bu gg e an d eii
radio to publicize. We sat up untyH^ 9he d
there (in the recording studio)
all night, from about 7 0:00 ot
night to 7:00 in the morning.
— Lane Jatzlai) j
band member for 1101
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weeks to do, King and his hand take them toi
producer in Houston to be mixed into a polished!
arrangement.
With songs and a CD for would-be fans, thel
band can set up gigs and shows and make theiti
debut.
“The main thing is to get up the courage to gel
up in front of a crowd,” Blair said. “Once you (
that, the next time is easier.”
Going on stage with a plan also makes the!
show easier and more enjoyable for the band!
Jatzlau said.
“We’ll do some original songs, some covet!
songs, and come back with the electric stufti
and end on a high note with lots of energy/
Jatzlau said. “Let everyone smile when the)!
leave, not so much thinking; thinking and smil
ing, preferably.”