The Prancing Elites Project: New Ground Breaking Show Coming to Oxgen

“The Prancing Elites’ positive perseverance through life’s countless hurdles and rejections will tug at the heartstrings of Oxygen’s young, open-minded and diverse audience,” said Rod Aissa, Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development, Oxygen Media. “With vibrant personalities, an abundance of humor and even more determination, this authentic group holds true to themselves and never stops celebrating who they are.”

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VIOLA CONSTANCE | @Voila_its_Viola

A new uplifting, inspiring and amusing new docu-series “The Prancing Elites Project” will be premiering Wednesday, April 22 at 10 PM ET/PT on the Oxygen Network. The Prancing Elites are an African American, gay and non-gender conforming dance team straight out of Mobile, Alabama.

The team is made up of five best friends Adrian Clemons, Kentrell Collins, Kareem Davis, Jerel Maddox, and Timothy Smith. The series digs into their personal lives as they fight to be accepted in the female dominated dance culture of J-Setting. They are challenging societal norms while overcoming several obstacles with passion and humor on their journey to be their authentic selves. 

Currently the group is excluded from competitions and banned from participating in several hometown and national parades. The Prancing Elites fight to showcase their talent by dancing in the stands at college football games and even performing on a boat cruise. Despite all of the hurdles they must face - professional rejections, family disapproval and tensions, personal health crises and heartbreak - the group won’t let anything stand in their way as they continue to uplift one another and band together in the face of adversity.