“What a waste of time!” The Drummies, though, were naturals before Mann’s camera. Ranging from five to eighteen years old, the majorettes are accustomed to moving their bodies with patience ...

With more and more public school time available for the drill-team way of life, drum majorettes are now popping ... twirling to a sevenor eight-year-old calls for techniques — skills, I mean ...

The majorettes usually range from five to 18 years old, and very young girls ... typically for three hours each time. In the photoseries, the drum majorettes are a dynamic jolt of color in muted ...

The 15-year-old concert band ... and choreographed movements in time with the marching band, stand out during performances. Dressed in different uniforms, the majorettes are front and center ...

For the first time, Alice Mann's seminal and award-winning ... Mann spent four years photographing South African female drum majorette teams in Western Cape and Gauteng schools.

the natives said it in the old Pennsylvania Dutch way: “It wonders [mystifies] me.” In the city’s only public high school, a dozen drum majorettes ... just about the time he’s learning ...

For once, the Sound and Light Theatre truly lived up to its name during a performance by the De Hoop Drum Majorettes ( South Africa ) on Sunday evening at the Jerash Festival. There was a ...

DRUM majorettes, better known as “drummies,” began in the 1970s with ‘marching girls’ performing in street parades to music played by the pipe band. Cheerleading in South Africa started in ...

The drum majorettes of Pietersburg Comprehensive School (PCS) emerged as the overall winners of the Limpopo Majorette and Cheerleading Association’s provincial competition that was hosted by Jab ...

The Tiisetsang Secondary School scooped two trophies in different categories during the recent inaugural Dihlabeng Mayoral School Drum Majorettes Festival at the ... since it was the first time that ...

Alana Jagger is still pinching herself. The 6-year-old can hardly believe she won four trophies at the recent Drum Majorettes of America Mini-Nationals in Charleston, Tenn. She took first place in ...