AustinMello Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 Hello everyone, My name is Brent Unger and I am the founder and director of the Austin Stars Performing Arts Association (ASPAA). The long range vision of ASPAA is to offer a wide range of performance opportunities for people of all ages and the first phase of this is the foundation of the Austin Stars Drum & Bugle Corps. The Austin Stars are an all-age corps with membership open to anyone age 18 and up with prior experience in marching band (brass, perc, guard only) winter guard, indoor drumline or drum & bugle corps. Even if you are over 21 years old (the DCI age-out) you can still march drum corps. I know there are a lot of you out there who always wanted to march in a DCI corps but waited till it was too late. Now's your chance to do drum corps and you can do it for as long as you want to or as long as your legs will let you march! One of the great things about all-age drum corps is that we only rehearse and perform on weekends and it cost much less than junior (DCI) corps. We do, however, encourage ALL young people between 18 and 21 years old to march with any of the local junior corps if you can including Trinity and Revolution. What's the difference between junior and senior corps? Age: Juniors are between 15 and 21. Seniors are from 18 to any age! The average age in Austin Stars will likely be between 30 and 35 years old. Atmosphere: Junior corps is an educational venture whereas in senior corps it's more recreational. While we do strive to better ourselves in performance we never loose sight of the fact that we're doing this for fun! Time: In the summer, junior corps practice 7 days a week for about 2 months. Senior corps practice only on weekends because our members have jobs or are still in school. We even offer daycare for our members who have young children! Money: Today the average annual dues for a junior corps is no less than $1,000 dollars. Senior corps annual dues (at least with the senior corps in Texas) are under $500.00. Family: It is true that in junior corps you will become part of a big family and will form friendships that will last the rest of your life. In senior corps that phenomena is doubled because of the fact that most members are all from the same metropolitan area and spend lots of time with each other outside of drum corps. Since we have no age-out limit our members can march for years and years thus magnifying the sense of family in the corps. The Austin Stars support the drum corps activity as a whole in Texas including the junior (DCI) corps and senior (DCA) corps. We have never had this many corps in Texas so now no matter where you are in Texas there's most likely a corps near you that you can be involved in. Tell your friends and any former band, guard or drumline membes you know about the Austin Stars. We will have an Open House meeting for all interested persons on Saturday, June 10th. The first rehearsal will take place sometime in October. Winter camps will be once a month through April 2007 then change to twice a month in May and June. We will go to the DCA World Championships on Labor Day Weekend in September 2007. See you on the 50! Quote
EODrillDesigner98 Posted February 4, 2006 Posted February 4, 2006 Hi! AustinMello I been trying to fill out the Austin Star D & B Corps Staff Application. But it wont let me do anything. I was wondering if there is other way to have copy of the application. Since I'm interested in the Drill Designer, Pit Arranger position. Thanks Quote
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EODrillDesigner98 Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 AustinMello said: Email theaustinstars@yahoo.com Hey! AustinMello I hope to get a response back soon. Quote
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