Dance team moved during GSU home game

ATLANTA - Members of the Crowned Jewels Dance Team said they were moved from the stands during a Georgia State University home game last week because of flashy dance moves.

The group at GSU said the school discriminated against them.

Danielle Holmes, a member of the team, describes their dancing as more fluid and upbeat flashy. She said that is why they were removed, but she said it left the group embarrassed and humiliated.

Holmes said, in the stands, campus officials kept telling the dancers to move for different reasons including the notion they took up too much space and the crowd was at capacity.

“[It was] just a lot of excuses, then they called the police on us and the police said we would have to move to away side or they would escort us off the premises,” she said.

Mike Holmes with GSU's athletics department said the Crowned Jewels are not an athletics-sponsored group. However, it's a campus organization and they're allowed to dance at games.

“We asked multiple times. We didn’t want to turn away other students who wanted to come to the game... they refused every time... We didn't kick them out of the game,” said Holmes.

Holmes said she looks forward to speaking with university leaders soon about the issue.