Commnity Drill Team with a Noble Mission Appears on “DWTS”
May 3, 2013

The Camden Sophisticated Sisters drill team wowed on this week’s “Dancing with the Stars” results show. Since 1986, the organization’s founding director, Tawanda Jones, has used dance to motivate and empower young women in Camden, New Jersey, where many residents live below the poverty line and violent crime rates are some of the highest in the nation. The team rehearses in a converted water tower, which Jones refers to as “safe haven” for many of her students.

As if the Sisters’ mission isn’t moving enough, they dominated the dance floor Tuesday night in their special appearance on the show. Commercial choreographer Brook Wendle created a crowd-pleasing, hard-hitting routine to Beyoncé’s “Get Me Bodied” for CSS, and the girls nailed it. To top it off, host Tom Bergeron announced “DWTS” would be outfitting the team’s rehearsal space with brand new mirrors. We can’t wait to see what these impressive young ladies do next.