Worst Step Show Experiences
 

Who's been in a step show? Did you mess up?:eek: or were you just too smoooooth?:cool:

I've been in some shows.....it's not that I was the perfect stepper. More like I was one of those really good ensemble players, lol.

But in all the shows I've seen, the WORST was fraternity XYZ at the Fall Show at Georgetown in 1999. OMG they were so horrible. Every person on stage was out of shape, overweight...... the style was more like aerobics than actual stepping.... and had the NERVE to be disrespectful to women.

(And prior to the show tried to DEMAND that they step last!)

They. Got. Booed.

And trust, it takes a lot for a stiff Georgetown audience to do anything but politely clap.

We never invited them back.

I've never been to a step show (tho I'd love to!). The local on our campus has become very multi-cultural, and last year for Greek Week Mock Rock they added some stepping at the end of their performance. Maybe 2 girls were decent... but their performance proved that some white girls just shouldn't step.

Once a month, my sorority used to mentor local middle school girls from the area. The other sorority that did this with us was Sigma Gamma Rho. We always did crafts and such with them, while the SGRho girls taught them how to step. The girls were not at all impressed with us after SGRho. They wanted us to teach them how to step and we told them we didn't know how so instead, they tried to teach us. That didn't work out so well. Then they tried to teach us how to double dutch. Again, did not work.

I have to agree...sometimes the wait is just simply pointless. Be ready to go on following each group...

At my school...after the certain sorority/fraternity step, all the members come on the floor and sing their song...that took a lot of time, and meant nothing to us non-greeks...But overall, the shows were a pleasure to watch. Most groups had their stuff together.

What the hell? EVERY org did this?

There's usually a protocol about such things, written or de facto.... a step show is not really a place where I would sing my hymn. (Unless it was after the whole thing was over.)

I was in a step show once, but I'll never do it again. That was one of the most embarassing moments of my life.:o I thought I would be nervous before the show b/c it was packed and the seats were sold out. When I saw the crowd screaming and chearing and people were yelling my name is when I got a little nevous. Though it was my 1st step show I still felt I had it together. Boy was I wrong.

Well to make a long story short, I dropped my Kane twice and when I did, it threw me off beat, which caused a chain reaction to my brothers. So they were off beat too b/c of me. Well...we smoothed it out pretty good. We actually did pretty good. The killer part is we had two different shows in one and originally I wasn't supposed to be in the 2nd show. Unfortunately the crowd didn't know that. They thought I wasn't in it because I messed up so bad in the 1st showing. The next day on campus everybody was asking me why I wasn't in the 2nd showing. I told them why, but I could tell they didn't believe me. For the most part though everyone was cool about it.:o

In my first show, as a collegiate, we wore flat red shoes and during a kicking step, one of my shoes flew off! Fortunately, it did not hit anyone and it was near the end of the show. Of course, I heard about it for weeks. :o

In a regional show, I had brain freeze and forgot where I was supposed to go during a transition step. Fortunately, I remembered in time to give the 'ok nod' to start the next step. I played it off cool so that it looked like I was just the intro to the next step. :D

Other than stepping on the yard, that is the extent of my step show experiences, probably never to be repeated again...

LOL. Did anyone laugh when your shoe fell off? The crowd laughed at me when I dropped my Kane?:o

I think the first reaction was surprise at the unexpected :eek:

However, EVERYONE expects at least one Kappa to drop a kane ;)

I've only seen where the winning fraternity/sorority got in a circle and sang their respective hymns. Everyone else had to fall back.

Earlier this year at a step show in Atlanta, XYZ sorority's show was HORRIBLE! NO ONE was paying attention, and the crowd was talking so loud that you couldn't hear the steps.

Then they tried to do this comedic interlude, but these actors in the audience started imitating them and the audience found them much more entertaining!

They weren't boo'd, but no one was watching the stage either.

i was in a step show a few years ago in Cleveland (we came in 2nd, boo-hiss on those judges:mad:) and i remember a member of the XYZ team first had her pants button break onstage. she had to step holding up her pants the rest of the time which i'm sure was tough. that same member saw her "phony pony" fly off her head ALSO during the show.
that poor member:( unfortunately her moment lives on on tape...:eek:
just a reminder, ladies: for the upcoming stepshow season, do make sure that "pony" is tight or you'll remembered for the same reason...

At a step show in Minneapolis two years ago, a group, who got to step last, had a rather anticlimatic intro, then did a simple stroll for about two minutes before cussing at the audio/visual booth which played the wrong music. They skipped their outro and gave the a/v guy dirty looks the whole time. It wasn't the fault of the a/v guy that their performance was terrible. It was just extremely unprofessional and lacked a competitive edge... especially because they got to go last.

Who was that?

No...every group that was performing did this...

I wasn't able to go to that show, but I saw the tape. :o I felt so bad for her.

The Iotas. I don't know what chapter though.

I only did one show, and I was told that I did a pretty good job. We had a part in the step where we stood on one foot (we weren't "thinking"), and my weak right ankle was wobbly, but I did not fall! When we started caning, I was really into my part. I was so into it that I didn't really feel the cane hit my forehead. :o I don't think anyone else noticed either, or else they didn't tell me.

The worst thing I still remember is seeing one of those televised step shows from Universal Studios from the early '90s. XYZ sorority was in cute tuxedo ensembles, but they were all over the place. For the finale, I believe one member should have done a back flip over another member who was lying down. She must have forgot because she fell over her soror, and her legs were flying in the air. She stood up quickly, but I felt embarrassed for them.

Imagine having to wait when there are over 10 groups stepping. If I'm waiting, make sure you give us silence instead of a poet/preacher serving as emcee who's just talking to a crowd that does not want to hear him. That was painful.

What do step shows have anything to do with Greek Life?

Clearly, BGLO's (i can't believe i just used that phrasing) have step shows, and thats something many of them do, however many fraternities also drink. Should I make a thread about worst drinking experiences?

I've seen what you are talking about. The show was called STOMP!, which was filmed annually at the Disney/MGM Studios theme park, and the group was the AKAs, and yes, to be honest, their performance--well, let's just say that I taped that year's STOMP!, and every time the AKAs are up to perform, I fast-forward it and move on to the next act.

Just keepin' it real, yall.

Imagine having an emcee who could not pronounce the greek letters. I was a judge for a step show and my ug chapter is Lambda Lambda. So, he was introducing me to the crowd and instead of saying 'Lambda Lambda' he said 'lamma lamma', that was painful to hear. Please note that I did write out 'lambda' and not use the greek letter.

:( He coulda asked somedoggonebody.

He was a comedian who *thought* we was funny.....:rolleyes: He was not asked back the following year.

Do some research. Fill your tiny little brain with some facts.

No one is stopping you.

at my hbcu most homecoming stepshows were REALLY nice. good-natured rivalry and friendly competition, no disrespect and EVERYONE came with their best show.

however, during football / basketball season when promoters try to create buzz about their "such a such CLASSIC" by hosting a stepshow... :( the ones i've attended have been a mess.

ET correct spelling mistake.

Using insults which make you look like your in high school is not that cool on a college greek website.

I did some research. I've been to step shows before. The college in my hometown has one of the biggest ones in the South. Blacks from across the south make a journey there to party and such. I know what a step show is. I understand that blacks like to do step shows. However, how does this have anything to do with greek life? It has about as much meaning as drinking does, and had I posted "worst drinking times" it would be moved somewhere besides Greek Life.

Stepping is not a "black" thing. It's a black GREEK thing. Until relatively recently, stepping was really only performed by members of BGLOs.

It's like serenades for many NIC fraternities. It's not merely singing.

Both stepping and serenades are Greek institutions, and I would expect both to be discussed in the "Greek Life" forum.

LOL. Yeah that is sooooo true about Kane dropping.:D

However I did go to one step show at Ohio State and they didn't drop any Kanes. The Kanes were being thown everywhere too and they never dropped. I was surprised. It was the best show I had ever seen.

What organization are you a member of? Just curious.

As I spoke of before, they are as much an institution of Greek Life as drinking is.

Even though you are not "Phrozen God", I still would like to know how I am ignorant?

Drinking is not uniquely Greek. That would be a "Chit Chat" topic.

Singing is not uniquely Greek. Serenades are. (In the context that I am thinking of.) Therefore, serenades would be discussed in Greek Life.

Dancing is not uniquely Greek. Stepping is. Therefore, it is also discussed in Greek life.

Do you really not see the connection or are you being difficult?

Unless this is the past, I believe you said that "Until relatively recently, stepping was really only performed by members of BGLOs. " Meaning, it is no longer uniquely Greek. Smooth, buddy.

GreekChat, I apologize, I should have done my research before unwittingly feeding the trolls.

Elephant Walk, this is the last thing I intend to say to you:



































Can I rub the jewel in your belly and make a wish?

Wow. I'm glad you completely side-stepped the issue instead of responding. Pretty sweet!

Don't worry about it, friend. We have all had to learn that lesson.

ElephantWalk,

Stepping is a Black Greek tradition. However, many other Greeks such as Latino/a, Asian, and Multicultural Greeks have also started stepping as well.

Drinking is not a uniquely Greek thing. It existed before there was fraternities and sororities.

Stepping really came into its own with Black Greeks.

Does this make sense?