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For many years Crowd Pleasers has been the largest Private Camp Company in Texas! We work all year to create impressive and inspiring routines that require a minimum amount of time spent polishing. Our private camps offer flexibility. You can customize each session that our staff spends with your team to best meet your needs. You can choose the music and routines your team receives as well as create your camp schedule, adding polishing sessions or technique classes to assist you in achieving your performance goals for the year. Since 1993 we have also offered the unique option to hold a portion of your private at the picturesque T Bar M Camp in New Braunfels, Texas. This is great for those teams that traditionally go away to camp but prefer the personalized results of a completely private camp! With a Crowd Pleasers private camp you can be assured that our incredibly talented staff will deliver the very best in private instruction and each day will be filled with learning and fun!
After spending 10 years fine-tuning our private camps, we decided to venture into the exciting world of Dance Team Competitions. Since the very beginning it has been our passion to provide an opportunity for dance teams to compete in the fairest possible setting. In an effort to do just that we hired Kim Lambert, one of Texas' leading adjudicators to assemble and train our spectacular panel of judges. All high school team and officer routine judges are required to have a minimum of 10 years experience in the field of dance and drill team and must be independent from the Crowd Pleasers staff. In addition, we pioneered a system in which our judges identify each performance by only an entry number in order to facilitate anonymity. All of these factors have helped us to achieve a reputation for excellence as we strive to insure that each and every competition is well organized, enjoyable, but most of all rewarding for all!
Once we discovered how much fun it had been to add contests, Officer Camp was not far behind! We set out to design a Dance Officer Camp that would not only equip students with the skills necessary to be truly great leaders, but give them the highest quality choreography, unique and useful master classes and workshops, and unparalleled technical instruction. Our extensive panel of guest instructors is second to none as we have spared no expense to deliver the quality you are looking for. In addition, we were the first to offer a much sought after Social Officer Camp designed to identify and unpack their unique leadership roles via hands on workshops on topics such as scrap-booking, developing and implementing an annual theme, and games to unify and motivate your team. Our Dance and Social Officer Camps have proved to be two of our most successful events ever, adding another really exciting facet to our summer camp season.
After the huge success of our Officer Camp it seemed only fitting that we should try our hand at a hotel Line Camp. Because we could not abandon our passion for the benefits of private instruction, we created the "Best of Both Worlds" Line Camp which launched in summer 2003. This program is truly a hybrid combining a 2 ½ day hotel camp with two days of private instruction at your school for one package price! This program not only delivers the same quality football and pep rally choreography that we are known for, but workshops focused on developing team unity, technique classes teaching them the skills they need to make them better dancers, and a Master Class that your kids are sure to remember for a lifetime. On the final day of camp teams are evaluated on the routine of their choice giving them and opportunity to grow and bond as they work together toward a team performance goal! We top the program off with two days of private instruction at your school where you receive three routines of your choice and a thrilling final awards ceremony. Our inaugural line camp met much success and enthusiasm as directors realized it truly was the "Best of Both Worlds!"

As our Dance Officer Camp quickly gained a reputation for delivering an experience unlike any other in the “Dance Team” world, we noticed that one of the most memorable parts of camp for most of our dancers was having the opportunity to participate in a convention style environment where in they could take a unique variety of classes from some of the best in the business! That experience seemed too valuable to restrict to just Dance Officers so in 2006 we introduced Pure Dance Jams. The goal of these events is to offer dancers of all levels an experience of a lifetime strategically designed to challenge them to grow as dancers in a “Dance Team” friendly environment that is focused on fun! Each year we strive to put together the very best faculty of choreographer/instructors that we can find; all who are passionate about inspiring dancers to push themselves to try new things and not hold back. PDJ is the convention experience for every dancer!

The Crowd Pleasers staff is coordinated and taught each year by owners Kay Gabrysch and Kristina Cross and Operations Manager Kristi Stephenson. They consist of talented young women trained as Kilgore Rangerettes, Southwest Texas Strutters, Tyler Apache Bells, the Dance Teams of the University of Texas, Stephen F. Austin, and A&M, as well as dance majors from many other prestigious programs. Many are highly respected Dance and Drill Team Directors from around the state of Texas. We send you instructors not just equipped to teach your routines, but who are highly motivational and exceptional role models for your team.

We love being able to offer you the very best in Private Camp, Contest, Officer Camp, and Line Camp, and we are so very grateful to all of the incredible teams and dedicated directors who have been part of this tremendous growth. Thank you from Kay, Kristina, and Brie and all the Crowd Pleasers Staff.

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