It's my turn and I'm not going to mess this up.
DIANNA: We'll all run this thing.
Bring it on home.
All I can do is do my best.
DIANNA: I know you ain't crying.
She's overthinking it.
She does that.
DANCER: I know I looked awful.
She stepped up to the plate this week
and she hit a home run.
Go out there and do what I got to do.
DIANNA: Camryn, you need to fix your line
over there with them hip pops.
I want you to dance like you had competition,
not like you on the playground.
You understand?
Because you're not moving, Camryn.
Camryn really needs to focus on herself
and make sure that she's doing what she's supposed to do.
Because if not, I'm not going to stop yelling.
I'm not going to stop riding her because I want it done right.
[music playing]
I'm not trying to sabotage myself.
I'm just really trying my best and I want to make cuts.
When Ms. Dianna yells at me, I just get so scared.
But hopefully, that won't have to happen again.
DIANNA: Some of y'all I really do not have this.
It looked bad.
All y'all did good.
I know I was awful.
No, y'all did good though.
No, I messed up.
I know I looked awful, just admit it.
I know I did.
If I didn't, thank the Lord because I
believe that every single move I did, I missed up on.
DIANNA: OK, everybody.
Listen up.
If I call your name, you make cuts so come forward.
Makalah, Crystianna, Kayla, Tamia, Makya, Tanesha, Maya,
Kaitlyn, Princess, Jersey Tieria,
Twin, Sunjai, Brandee, Aquatia, Shakayla, Renisha, and Camryn.
These are the girls that will be in group one.
I'm just like, wow, OK.
I've made it through cuts.
All I can do is do my best.
This is what you want to do when you get older.
You want to have your own school.
You want to teach other kids.
How you going to be able to teach them hip hop
when you don't like hip hop?
Camryn is a little different from me.
She likes the jazz lyrical slash ballet slash tap stuff.
Wonderful.
I like that too.
But on the other side, it all falls
under the same category, dance.
So you have to like it all.
Sorry.
It is what it is.
Go out there and do it.
OK?
High five in the air.
Even though I don't like hip hop,
I'm really trying to impress Ms. Dianna because Ms. Dianna has
said that she's going to be watching us to see who's going
to be able to become captain.
I was just thinking like, OK.
This is my chance for me to step up.
You better do it or I'mma hit you.
You better do it.
[cheering]
[music playing]
(SINGING) Game over.
You can try it if you want to.
You can even say a prayer if you want to.
You can say you'll never cry but you're going to.
CAMRYN: Even though, you know, it
was a lot of stress to get together like the hip
hop dance, especially for me.
All the hard work was completely worth it because like it
was really good.
(SINGING) I know, I know, I know, this really ain't fair.
MOM: Camryn did wonderful.
I was really, really pleased with her,
and the crowd was reacting like [screams] They were shocked.
[music playing]
(SINGING) So how you like being defeated?
Don't even bother because I already beat you.
Game over.
[cheering]
ANNOUNCER: The winner of first place is the Dancing Dolls.
DIANNA: The Dancing Dolls get first place
in the hip hop category, and I'm really excited for them.
They did a really good job.
I saw Camryn grow as a stronger dancer this week.
She stepped up to the plate this week and she hit a home run.
7, 8, 1, 2.
Uh-uh.
If you can't do this, you need to speak up now
because we spending time on this to make sure that you have it.
Hello?
I got it.
Let's go.
Camryn, she's having a really, really off practice.
Camryn, step out.
You supposed to be out in the front.
She normally nails stuff like this.
This is our area of expertise.
Like, I don't understand what the issue is.
You don't get this right, we're not using it, so help me.
Start from the beginning.
But we don't have time for any of them
to have an off practice because the competition is tomorrow.
You need to get comfortable.
It should be like, I'm unbothered.
Spinning, gone with the damn wind, fabulous.
Right now you look bothered.
You look scared.
I know that Camryn can do walkovers,
kicks, flips, triple spins, quadruple spins, hell,
she can do 10 to 15 a la secondes at one time.
I know this kid is talented.
I know you ain't crying.
But she's struggling today because she's overthinking it.
Period.
You know, she does that a lot.
When you get frustrated and you get like this, you lose focus.
Nobody's perfect.
Camryn is a sheer perfection.
It's just embedded in her that if toe
is not perfectly pointed with that arch, it's wrong.
Camryn tears herself down, something
that I'm working on with her to realize that hell,
no dancer is perfect.
Every dancer may have all this technical training.
They could have danced for some of the best choreographers
in the world but still have flaws,
so you need to be able to accept your flaws
and say, you know what?
My toe may not be perfectly pointed
but I'm all pointing to the best of my ability
and let that be good enough.
For Camryn, it's not.
And you need to stop doing this.
You do this every time something gets hard
or you can't do something, you do this every single time.
When something does not go right, she shut down.
That's Camryn's weakness.
She's her own kryptonite.
Well, let me see the first part.
Out.
Walk.
I see Camryn is frustrated and me pushing and pushing
and pushing is not working.
Drop.
What's after that?
You don't remember?
And it's to the point of breakage.
And knowing that there is a fine line between critique,
encouragement, and the breaking point,
I don't want her to get out there on the floor
and just shut down.
I think that we need to wait.
I think that we just need to not do it all together
and just focus specifically on stands.
I don't want to put Camryn out there and have her
to be scared and afraid and have to deal with the backlash
if she doesn't do well.
I'm scared for her.
Like, I want her to be OK.
Even though I'm a coach, I'm still a mom.
I try to handle it in a way that it makes them feel OK.
And if I have to back off to not break her
then that's what I'm going to do.
Go kiss your face.
I got a bucket for them tears, baby.
Good old mop bucket for them tears.
Camryn knows her limitations.
I know her limitations.
She knows what she can and cannot do,
what she's ready to do, and what she's not ready to do.
MIMI: It pisses me off a whole lot with Ms. D
not letting Camryn do the solo this time.
I definitely think she made the wrong call on it.
Next time I hear that we have a solo competition,
I'm going to push you out there to do it.
It's your team but it's my child and I'm going
to push her out there to do it.
DIANNA: The categories for the week
are stand battle and captains' battle.
This is the twist.
It's not only a captains' battle,
but it's the captains' and co-captains' battle.
Oh.
Woot.
DIANNA: So there are two head co-captains of the team,
Makalah and Crystianna.
So the two of you will have to work
together with 60 seconds of choreography
to compete together.
Camryn, you're going to do the captains' battle.
So Camryn, Crystianna, and Makalah,
this is your opportunity, 60 seconds, all you.
CAMRYN: It's good to know that Ms. Dianna has lots
of confidence in me and she knows
that I can go out there and do what I got to do but it's
also a lot of pressure.
But this is another twist.
Oh.
DIANNA: This is the other twist.
Crystianna and Makayla, you're in round one.
And if you don't win, she don't even get the chance to dance.
Oh.
[music playing]
(SINGING) Get up because I need [inaudible]
turned up to the maximum.
I'm ready for the night.
CAMRYN: I am not sitting on the bench.
So, hopefully, Crystianna and Makalah win their rounds so I
can get the chance to dance.
(SINGING) On it.
Turn it up one time.
Breaking up.
Make it louder.
Breaking up.
Make it louder.
Turn the bass up more, more, more, more.
Yeah.
ANNOUNCER: We will now go to our judges for their decision.
Dancing Dolls.
[cheering]
CAMRYN: Crystianna and Makalah killed through the routine.
Now it's my turn, and I'm not going to mess this up.
[music playing]
(SINGING) Pina Colada, whipped cream with a cherry on top,
need the whole enchilada.
So now it's Camryn versus Black Ice's captain
and I'm like, you know what?
Just bring it on home.
(SINGING) If you messing with a girl like me,
I don't do second best.
And I know ain't nothing for free
so I work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
So I work, work, work, work, work, work.
This place bananas.
Work.
This beat is crazy.
Work.
So work it, girl.
Show me that you can handle the heat.
Oh.
You know it.
This place bananas.
Turn up.
Watching Camryn's choreography for the first time,
I'm like, we'll all right, Miss Thing.
You go, girl.
[music playing]
At this moment, it's anyone's game.
Like, everybody was giving life today.
I don't know which way the judges may go.
ANNOUNCER: Announcing the victors
for our captain's battle, from Jackson, Mississippi,
the Dancing Dolls.
All right, Camryn.
DIANNA: All right, Camryn.
Yes.
Yes, baby.
Camryn, Makalah and Crystianna pulled through.
Yes for the Dancing Dolls.
When I say you can't touch us, ha, you can't touch us.
So it is all about you today.
Your carriage awaits.
[music playing]
(SINGING) We are the champions.
We are the champions.
CAMRYN: Once I realized that this is a surprise
party for my graduation, I was really
thrilled to know that all of my family and friends
were able to come and help me celebrate this wonderful day.
DIANNA: Camryn, you've been a part of my life
for a long time.
I watched y'all grow up, so what am I supposed to do?
Because now you're gone.
I love you.
Time has flown by.
It seems like-- it seems like just yesterday,
Camryn was taking her braces off.
It's crazy how much she's grown up.
And I've seen her grow from being
this shy quiet little girl to being
this amazing phenomenal dancer and an amazing captain.
I'm very proud of her.
CAMRYN: I'm really excited because I'm getting
ready to start this new journey, but it's also bittersweet
because, you know, I've been on a team for seven years
and I've been captain for like three years now.
So, basically, I have a lot of history with this team
and I'm going to miss it.