Last fall, when the photographer Alice Mann visited primary schools in Cape Town, South Africa, to photograph teams of drum majorettes, she was often met with astonishment. The “Drummies,” as ...

The Star Brigade Twirlers of Spring Hill and Brooksville, a program offered by the Hernando County Recreation Department, recently competed in the Drum Majorettes Florida State Championship in ...

The series documents the dazzling subculture of school drum majorette corps – “something between a cheerleading squad and a marching band,” explained Mann. The teams, fondly known as ...

St Dominic’s Catholic School for Girls is proud of its drum ... Majorette and Cheerleading Colours (SAMCA) earlier this year. Khutso Mlambo, Rabi Mobeng, Karabo Mokhwibitjane, Elizabeth Chimedza ...

There are no days off for “drummies.” On a national holiday, the Fairmont High School Drum Majorettes gather to practice elaborate routines. This story appears in the February 2019 issue of ...

When I was a young girl I briefly entertained the dream of becoming a drum majorette (after receiving ... reflections via a daily e-mail, contact Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill at [email protected].

Drum majorettes came to South Africa in the 1970s, and by the early Eighties the synchronised, baton-twirling gymnastic display had taken the country by storm. But the sport’s popularity has ...

The series documents the dazzling subculture of school drum majorette corps – “something between a cheerleading squad and a marching band,” explained Mann. The teams, fondly known as ...

Throughout the poorer areas of South Africa today, you might hear the sound of the marching band, and catch a glimpse of the drum majorettes, known as drummies, in their distinctive colourful ...