The National Honorary Band Sorority of Tau Beta Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc won the homecoming Greek Step Show.
The sorority beat six other organizations in a four-hour step show Oct. 23.
Five National Pan Hellenic Council fraternities, one NPHC sorority and one Council of Independent Greek Organization fraternity and sorority participated.
Phi Beta Sigma stole the show by ending their set with a very impressive step performance in which the NPHC fraternity members blind folded themselves and performed their routine without physically assaulting a member beside them.
CIGO sorority Tau Beta Sigma also stole the spotlight with their Wizard of Oz theme. They finished with a surprise drum performance which caused a standing ovation.
The night, however, didn’t go as smoothly for all participants.
From the beginning, the show was met with many difficulties.
The first occurred with the show’s host who, after a mere five minutes was booed and heckled off of the stage and the DJ had to step in and keep the audience occupied in between stage set-ups. Technical difficulties started with the performance of R&B trio Silhouette, whose muffled singing was eventually drowned out by the audience’s multiple conversations.
The Greeks’ performances were not immune to technical issues.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.’s awesome presentation was soured by their video which was projected backwards on the stage’s screen. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. had lip synching difficulties, when a soror stumbled over her dialogue.
The National Honorary Band Fraternity of Kappa Kappa Psi experienced audio difficulty with their second video which premiered mid-way through their performance.
I credit Kappa Kappa Psi with having the longest video of the night with their eight-minute performance opener that clearly did not go well with the audience.
On a brighter note, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. took turns turning up the temperature for the females in the audience, much to the pleasure of heterosexual females [and homosexual males] in attendance.
The fraternities finished their set by removing their shirts and grinding to a slow jam The Kappas, of course, added a little extra to their routine by distributing their roses to the women in the audience.
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. closed the show performing to a much smaller crowd than the preceding participants. The show was running behind schedule because of technical difficulties and possibly the lack of time limits for each performance.
Regardless of the smaller crowd the Iotas put on a great step show and received a positive response from the remaining audience.
In all, it was a very interesting night of stepping at Winston-Salem State.
My only wish is that these organizations took the time to have dress rehearsals, before presenting these drastically flawed routines to an unforgiving student body and alumni.
Had they done so, video and audio glitches could have been caught ahead of time and fixed, and their show may have had the impact that I’m sure the participants were hoping for instead of the obvious mess that it turned out to be.
Jennifer Rooks
Argus Contributor