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0:01[MUSIC PLAYING]
0:02It's Regionals.
0:03"Where Have All the Children Gone"
0:04is a very dark piece of music.
0:06The highest group routine--
0:07"Where Have All the Children Gone."
0:09ABBY: 280 acts, and they were first.
0:12CATHY: Brooke is now wearing Vivi's top.
0:15I'm not happy.
0:15I don't want Brooke wearing the costume.
0:17My daughter is dancing-- CATHY: I don't approve.
0:18- --in three minutes. - Well, I'm sorry.
0:20KELLY: And you're taking the costume off of her back.
0:21CATHY: I know. - Go back to your studio.
0:23You know what? I'm not.
0:24I'm here to stay, so like it.
0:26ABBY (VOICEOVER): Coming up on "Dance Moms"--
0:28Two-- arms, Nia!
0:29Three-- where are those arms?
0:30I want her in an Afro.
0:32HOLLY: The same type of thing.
0:33She should just pick some cotton or something.
0:35That's the next thing she'll pull out.
0:36I just wanted to warn you that Dawn Check is here
0:38to talk to you.
0:39She should be here to pay her bill.
0:41You never paid for the rest of your solo.
0:44DAWN: You broke the contract.
0:45I don't owe you anything.
0:47I'll see you in court.
0:48I feel like the eyelashes are drooping.
0:50Do I need to staple your eyebrows up?
0:51I pay, what, almost $100,000 a year in private school tuition,
0:56and you're telling me I can't afford you?
0:57I did not say that.
0:58Right now--
0:59That's what you just told me.
1:00[THEME MUSIC]
1:02THEME SONG: Get up.
1:03Get on the floor.
1:05My world is with my girls, living on the dance floor.
1:12[MUSIC PLAYING]
1:17ABBY: This weekend we were in Providence, Rhode Island,
1:20an hour outside of Boston.
1:22Some of the most prestigious dance studios in the country
1:24are there--
1:25tough schools, tough competitors.
1:27And you really held your own.
1:29You won that victory cup.
1:31You killed it.
1:32I'm very proud.
1:33[APPLAUSE]
1:35Excellent.
1:36I'm very proud of every one of you,
1:37and you know I don't say that too often.
1:39I'm also am very proud that all the moms kept their mouths shut
1:42and didn't say anything to me.
1:44See how much nicer it is when everything goes so smoothly?
1:47It was wonderful.
1:48Now if only the moms could learn to be
1:50team players like their daughters,
1:51then we'd be in business.
1:53I never saw such disorganization in all my life.
1:55Go back to your studio!
1:56You know what?
1:57I'm not.
1:58I'm here to stay, so like it.
2:01KELLY: I don't.
2:02Neither does anybody else.
2:05Now let's talk about this week's competition.
2:09We are going to what?
2:11Starpower!
2:14It's at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and it's a resort.
2:18It's all self-contained.
2:20We can't forget anything.
2:21So we will have a wardrobe for each day
2:23that they are going to be there, just like the old school days.
2:27Yes?
2:28And you will park here, in front of me,
2:29so that I know that you have everything.
2:32Let's talk about the board.
2:33First of all, everybody worked together as a team.
2:37That teamwork is going to help you at Nationals.
2:40That's what's going to put you over the top--
2:42teamwork and technique.
2:43Those are the two things that we're going to concentrate
2:46on this week.
2:47Moms, we're doing another new number!
2:51[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
2:53One more costume!
2:55This week's group number is entitled "Make You Mine."
2:58It's a theatrical jazz routine.
3:00It's upbeat, it's fun, classic jazz.
3:03This week, I'm going to ask you to work harder than you've ever
3:06worked before.
3:07We need to show up and walk in there like we own the place.
3:10And I will give you a pack list for clothes for the trip,
3:13and I want them dressed a certain way every single day
3:16that we are there.
3:17Does everyone understand that Yes?
3:19Moms, thank you very much.
3:21Ladies, let's get up.
3:23Let's go.
3:25Push through.
3:25Tighten your abs.
3:27Stronger arm.
3:27Stronger arm.
3:28Stronger arm.
3:30Passé.
3:31MELISSA: Vivi and Mackenzie were still
3:32on the bottom of the board.
3:33Yeah, I-- I didn't like that, at all.
3:35Because they were in the team that won.
3:36MELISSA: I-- I--
3:38CATHY: Regardless of what they did, they contributed.
3:39CHRISTI: Oh, I didn't even think about.
3:40CATHY: And I thought that that was really stinky.
3:43MELISSA: They should have put the babies on the top.
3:44That's right.
3:45MELISSA: I mean, not the babies, but--
3:45It should have been--
3:47I mean, it's like, god, don't ever give anybody just
3:47a little inch.
3:48That's why Mackenzie doesn't want to dance anymore.
3:50She's like, it's always all about all the other girls
3:52and, you know--
3:53Your ribs are open. Derriere is out.
3:55Tighten it.
3:56Tighten it, no squishy.
3:57CATHY: And I just hope that you guys are prepared
4:00with a costume, and that you guys stop sharing costumes.
4:04Because, yeah, there is so much of teamwork,
4:06but it's ridiculous when you're looking at a six-year-old
4:09and you're 13, to cram into her costume.
4:12No offense to you because you were only
4:14doing what she told you to do.
4:17But I paid for the costumes and I didn't like it.
4:20So I think that, for now, it's over and done with
4:23and we need to move forward
4:24KELLY: Cathy was acting like a bitch.
4:26And she was way out of line whenever she came up to me
4:28three numbers before Brooke went on stage
4:30and took her costume off of her body.
4:31But my advice, as a dance teacher,
4:33you moms need to step up and make sure that she's on top
4:36of things with your costumes.
4:38CHRISTI: Vivi's very young and you're new,
4:43so you're kind of still in the honeymoon period.
4:44So she may not take it out-- but give her-- give her some time.
4:47Then she'll start taking out her frustrations
4:49on you on your daughter.
4:50Well, all I'm going to do is flash her
4:52a couple of dead presidents.
4:53Hopefully, that'll work.
4:55That'll settle her.
4:57That'll settle her down right now, some dead presidents.
5:00MELISSA: That'll help her.
5:01HOLLY: That might work.
5:03[MUSIC PLAYING]
5:04ABBY: All right.
5:05Now, remember, you're an angel.
5:06So you need to be pretty and beautiful with beautiful feet,
5:09not Fred Flintstone flat feet.
5:11Got it?
5:13Maddie is doing a breathtakingly gorgeous lyrical routine.
5:17It's entitled "Angel," and she wears a stunning white costume.
5:21[MUSIC PLAYING]
5:27(SINGING) You are the sky, the moon at night.
5:32You are my life, a shining light.
5:36These things, I've learned, are never ending.
5:42MADDIE: I'm doing this dance called "Angel"
5:44for my grandmother, Babcia, and I hope that she is proud.
5:47And I know that she is watching me from heaven.
5:53You know that song "Angel" is for my mom?
5:55CHRISTI: I know.
5:55Maddie was telling me.
5:57She's so excited about it.
5:59My mom was diagnosed with cancer when I was really young.
6:02And my mom meant the world to me.
6:04Her and I were close, just like Maddie and I are.
6:09The other day, I was a little freaked out because,
6:11like, I smelled her.
6:12And it was like--
6:13it was so weird.
6:14You know, I look at a picture every day when I get my coffee,
6:17and you now, I have her little handwriting on my cabinet,
6:20you know?
6:21And I-- I don't know.
6:22I just miss her so much, I can't stand it.
6:24CHRISTI: Like, you think, like, I want to pick up the phone
6:26and call them. And you're like--
6:27I still do it.
6:28I sometimes say, oh, I have to tell my mom about this.
6:29You know?
6:30And then I'm like, she's not there.
6:33KELLY: I can't imagine not having a parent.
6:35Oh, I mean, I have nobody.
6:41When I look at Maddie I see my mom.
6:42Because my mom had the blue eyes that Maddie has.
6:45And I always say to her, my mom gave me you.
6:49When she left me, she gave me you.
6:59[MUSIC PLAYING]
7:00Chug, chug, chug, chug, and you're moving forward
7:03a little bit.
7:03But more hips-- big.
7:05Nia is doing a character piece entitled "LaQuifa."
7:10It's sassy, it's snap and hip head pop.
7:14Go.
7:17See how you're, like, going to fall when you finish?
7:19I don't want to see that.
7:20Do it again.
7:21Push!
7:23Staggering again.
7:24Come on.
7:25Nia is African-American, and I'm trying to teach
7:28her different ethnic dances.
7:31And I'm trying to train her so that when she is in New York
7:34or LA and the casting call says ethnic,
7:37she can do all of the dances correctly.
7:39Your abdominal muscles, engage them.
7:43Now march in your own circle, nose up in the air.
7:45Go.
7:46One, two, three, four.
7:49You're going to swing this down, five, and fan kick big,
7:53forced arch flex, seven and eight.
7:56Good.
7:57Before I start another solo and before I start yelling
8:01about your feet and your legs being sloppy,
8:04this is the difference between winning and overall.
8:06This is the difference between winning a title right here--
8:09the technique.
8:11Explain that word to me.
8:13Um--
8:15We use it all the time.
8:17What does technique mean?
8:25You really don't know?
8:26And how many times have you heard it in dance?
8:29A thousand times.
8:31If you were reading a book and they used the word a thousand
8:34times and you didn't understand it,
8:35wouldn't you go look up the word?
8:36Yeah.
8:38Abby pushes me really hard, but I don't mind because it makes
8:41me a better dancer.
8:43Go ahead out on the floor.
8:45Let me see your best jump.
8:48MELISSA: I know you're teaching until 7:30,
8:50but I just wanted to warn you that Dawn Check is here
8:52to talk to you.
8:54She should be here to pay her bill.
8:56She's going to speak to you, so--
8:58ABBY: OK.
8:58I'll be out in a few minutes.
9:00MELISSA: OK.
9:02Minister Dawn-- she has a lot of nerve showing up at my dance
9:05studio after which she pulled the last time she was there.
9:08I mean, I can't believe that she has the gall
9:09to show her face after the police hauled her out of here.
9:13Every week, we put the trash out.
9:15Go!
9:16Then take yourself out!
9:17Because you're the biggest piece of trash there is!
9:20May I have your phone?
9:21Call the police!
9:23Go for it!
9:25I'm sorry, girls.
9:26DAWN: Go for it!
9:27There's a psycho in every batch.
9:28A psycho? Yes!
9:29Her name's Abigail Miller!
9:31ABBY: Hi.
9:32I need police.
9:33[SIREN BLARING]
9:34POLICE OFFICER: They just want you to leave the property, so--
9:44This time, I'm prepared.
9:45I have 911 on speed dial.
9:54[MUSIC PLAYING]
9:56ABBY: --seven and eight.
9:57MELISSA: I know your teaching until 7:30,
9:59but I just wanted to warn you that Dawn Check is here
10:02to talk to you.
10:03She should be here to pay her bill.
10:05Go somewhere else!
10:06Take your money, take your kid, take your socks,
10:09another school! I am--
10:10Why are you right?
10:11It's my building!
10:12My name's on the front of it!
10:13So what!
10:14[SCREAMS] Quit chasing me!
10:16- Go for it! - Hi.
10:17I need police.
10:18I have an-- a parent that's out of control.
10:21Have a seat.
10:23I just thought it would be better if we spoke in person.
10:25ABBY: I am busy, busy, busy, busy.
10:27OK.
10:28You never paid for the rest of your solo.
10:30I didn't think you would come in.
10:31Yeah, I'm not going to do that.
10:33OK.
10:34Well, it needs to be paid.
10:35This is your contract.
10:37DAWN: I understand.
10:37This is-- this is--
10:38But the contract was-- was broken.
10:40No.
10:42When you throw me out and tell me to get out
10:44and not come back-- - No.
10:45--that makes it broken.
10:46No, it doesn't.
10:47You broke the contract.
10:48I don't owe you anything.
10:50I'll see you in court.
10:51Believe me, Dawn, I've done it before.
10:53And you're going to have the court costs,
10:55you're going to have my time in there--
10:57Unless I win.
10:58And then-- then what happens?
11:00How would you win?
11:01Your daughter wore a costume, took a picture in it,
11:04and you're claiming that you don't need to pay for it?
11:07That's called fact by deception.
11:09You can use all the words you want to use.
11:11I will.
11:12- But it's a breach of contract. - OK.
11:14It's time for you to go.
11:15Well, all right.
11:16Have a nice day.
11:19That Minister Dawn needs a Bible refresher course.
11:22Thou shall not lie, thou shall not steal,
11:25and thou shall not disrespect Abby.
11:27[MUSIC PLAYING]
11:29OK, ladies.
11:31This is your pack list for the competition.
11:33Now, I didn't get into too much detail,
11:35since you guys go away all the time.
11:37When we go to a competition, everyone involved
11:39is representing me, Abby Lee Miller.
11:42So I want my girls to look professional,
11:45and I want the moms to look professional, too.
11:47Cathy, the reason we do this is so it's easy for me
11:51to find the kids.
11:52When I'm traveling with children and I
11:54need to get them quickly--
11:55I want to take a photo, somebody shows up
11:57and then they all look good for my program book.
11:59CATHY: I'm all about themes, but these little themed outfits are
12:02just for the children and not--
12:04ABBY: Oh, no, no, no, no.
12:05They're for everyone attending.
12:09Hold the phone for just a moment.
12:10Because we've already went shopping
12:13and we've bought some fabulous clothes.
12:15And I'm seeing here black and white night time,
12:18and I'm going to assume that you're talking about banquets.
12:20And I have a fabulous fuchsia formal that I'm going to be
12:24wearing, and she has green.
12:28I'm sorry I can't follow Abby's rules.
12:30When Candy Apples steps out, we do it in style.
12:33We don't dress like the help.
12:35You do remember that I am not a team player.
12:38And we will be packing at home.
12:42And what we pack is what we're bringing.
12:45This may not be totally conducive--
12:47Do not make your child an outcast.
12:49Oh, we would love for Vivi to blend.
12:51ABBY: Yes.
12:52But the reason why we're here is to stand out.
12:54I'd like to say that I'm smarter than the average bear.
12:56And I like to pull the rug out from underneath them
12:58and take their focus away from what's going on, so that I get
13:00in my way.
13:01All right.
13:02Everybody understands, yes?
13:04Mothers, I have your word? Cathy?
13:06Oh, well, I'll have to think about it.
13:15[MUSIC PLAYING]
13:18CATHY: Vivi.
13:19VIVI-ANNE: Hm?
13:20You know what I found out?
13:21At Starpower they have a costume award.
13:25VIVI-ANNE: Cool.
13:26And you have to put your photo in.
13:28So I think that we're going to enter your pink costume.
13:32At Starpower they have a photogenic award.
13:35I would love for Vivi to be able to have the opportunity
13:38to model in a costume book because that's
13:40what I did when I was little.
13:41And it was a great experience, very exciting.
13:44And I think it would be wonderful to know
13:46that her picture was going all over the country.
13:48You know what else, too, Vivi?
13:50Hm?
13:51CATHY: There will probably be a lot of photographers there.
13:53OK.
13:54CATHY: It'll be like you're the glamour girl.
13:55Uh-huh. CATHY: OK?
13:56That'd be fun.
13:58Maybe Mommy can get in a couple of shots.
13:59VIVI-ANNE: Yeah.
14:00My mom wants me to be famous.
14:03I don't want to be a model.
14:09[MUSIC PLAYING]
14:13ABBY: All right, girls, the new number
14:15that we're going to do for this competition is called
14:18"Make You Mine."
14:19Everybody say that.
14:20Make you mine.
14:22I want you to go out, and I want you to get the older
14:24girls' black chairs.
14:25This week's group number is entitled "Make You Mine."
14:29And we use the chairs because the kids have done a Fosse
14:32number and they were familiar with working on the chairs.
14:34It's high energy, and the kids love the number.
14:37They get to dance like teenagers, so they love it.
14:39(SINGING) Slip my lace on, put on my make-up.
14:43One, two, three, four--
14:47jeté.
14:47Roll.
14:52Turn that foot out, Nia!
14:54Arms, up straight!
14:58One, two, arms, Nia!
15:00Three-- where are those arms?
15:03Last night at dinner with your dad--
15:04that's where the arms are.
15:06(SINGING) I'm your fantasy girl.
15:10It's so frustrating to watch Nia dance.
15:12She makes the same mistakes over and over again.
15:17Pop up!
15:18I want it strong!
15:19This is the third time in 20 minutes I'm telling you
15:22the same thing.
15:24I don't know what I'm going to do about Nia.
15:25If she doesn't step it up, she's going
15:27to blow it for the rest of the girls in the group.
15:29You're the last one.
15:31And it was 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 50%.
15:37One more time, do it.
15:39One, two, three, four, five.
15:42It's still not sharp enough.
15:43It has to come up.
15:45Watch it when the next group does it.
15:46Ready? Let's go.
15:47(SINGING) So we can get it on, I'm going to make you mine.
15:55I try to do everything right, but sometimes it's too hard.
15:59Five, six, seven, eight and a one, two, three--
16:06[MUSIC PLAYING]
16:09I have costumes!
16:11[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
16:12Oh, girls, look at that!
16:14Woo-hoo!
16:15All right, Nia, you're going to put this on first, sweetie.
16:18The costume is darling.
16:20It's really, like, a satire on the drag queen image.
16:24And it's over the top, and it's fun, fun, fun.
16:26And it's right up Nia's alley.
16:28Then, put the pants and the crop top and everything
16:31else on, after that.
16:33I loved my costume for LaQuifa.
16:35I thought it was amazing.
16:36[LAUGHS]
16:37Chloe, this is you.
16:38Again, it's not what I drew.
16:40I should have sent the fabric.
16:42Hello. Sorry.
16:43Hi.
16:44HOLLY: Hi.
16:45I arrived just in time for costumes,
16:46and it's always interesting to see what Abby will pull out
16:49of her bag of tricks.
16:50Girls!
16:51Brooke!
16:52Oh, we're not too bad. KELLY: Oh, my gosh.
16:54You're a lot bigger than we think!
16:55CHRISTI: OK. I know it's-- oh, my god, Nia!
16:57HOLLY: You know what?
16:58Let me--
16:59[LAUGHTER]
17:00MELISSA: Was it hard to get in?
17:01HOLLY: Why is my daughter the only one
17:03dressed in animal print?
17:05Is this a joke?
17:07ABBY: Can you walk down there, sweetie, and let me see you?
17:10HOLLY: All the other girls get feminine, beautiful,
17:12whimsical costumes that aren't typecasting them.
17:16And, you know what?
17:17I want her in an Afro.
17:19Do you have one from when we did "My Hair Looks Fierce?"
17:22Let me just pull it out of my purse.
17:24No, I don't have a Afro!
17:25[LAUGHS]
17:26If not, Penn Hill Shopping Center.
17:33Are you kidding me?
17:34No, I don't have an Afro.
17:36That's not the black experience that we know.
17:39And there's nothing wrong with LaQuifa--
17:41the LaQuifas of the world.
17:43But that's not Nia's experience.
17:45It is not my experience.
17:46My name is Holly.
17:48I'm as far away from LaQuifa as you can get.
17:51That is not who I am and that is not who Nia is.
17:56ABBY: Turn around.
17:58Holly wants her daughter to be like every other little girl.
18:00Nia has an advantage over everybody else.
18:03She can play many different ethnicities.
18:06And it's my job to make her capitalize those opportunities.
18:10Different is good.
18:11She has what it takes, and yet her mom wants
18:15her to be like Paige and Maddie and Chloe.
18:17This is show business.
18:19When they're looking for somebody different,
18:21they're going to love Nia.
18:23I think these could go a little higher.
18:30[MUSIC PLAYING]
18:33I can't take all the late night.
18:39I never drink.
18:40But after having to buy an Afro and seeing that Leopard
18:43costume, I about had it.
18:45What I took objection to was just about the whole LaQuifa
18:48number.
18:49I never have denied my Black heritage.
18:51I'm very proud of it.
18:52But it has to--
18:53I don't want to be a stereotypical from the '70s--
18:54- And I agree with that. - --wearing an Afro.
18:56We're in the 21st century.
18:58KELLY: I think Holly's being a little overdramatic.
19:00Her daughter's wearing an Afro wig.
19:02What's the big deal?
19:03She's going to have her picking cotton.
19:05Might as well, or a scarf on her head and being Aunt Jemima.
19:08I don't want that.
19:09Did you just say picking cotton?
19:10HOLLY: Well, that's what it's like.
19:12[LAUGHTER] It's the same type of thing.
19:12Swing low sweet chariot, and just
19:14let's pick some cotton or something.
19:15KELLY: It doesn't-- like--
19:16We have worked so hard to get beyond that.
19:17KELLY: I agree with you.
19:18HOLLY: For me, it's very political.
19:20Politics is all about who has to power and who has the control.
19:23I don't have the power to choose Nia's music.
19:25Abby gets to choose that.
19:27And Abby has the control and the power in depicting
19:29how she wants Nia portrayed.
19:31I'm definitely frustrated.
19:32I'm at the end of my rope.
19:33I don't know if I'm going to be able to hang in there much
19:36longer.
19:40[MUSIC PLAYING]
19:46ABBY: Bus driver, how come you came this way?
19:49You're throwing everybody around back here.
19:51We're heading to the Starpower competition in Connecticut.
19:55And this is going to be tough.
19:57The judges are going to be looking for technique,
19:59of course, showmanship, costuming, and passion.
20:04So when the dancers step out there,
20:06they're truly passionate about their craft
20:08and what they're doing.
20:09Mackenzie!
20:11Here!
20:12Maddie!
20:13Here!
20:14ABBY: Cathy is too good for us.
20:16She gets to ride in the Mercedes while we're on the bus?
20:19Who does she think she is?
20:21We all know it's a C Class.
20:25[MUSIC PLAYING]
20:27The woman at the wig shop thought I was crazy,
20:29getting an Afro for 10-year-old girl.
20:32Oh, you ended up getting one?
20:33I found one.
20:34CHRISTI: Is it blonde?
20:35[LAUGHTER]
20:37HOLLY: That would have been-- that would have been good.
20:38There are lots of wigs I would like to choose from for Nia.
20:41I would never select an Afro wig.
20:43I would like for Nia to be beautiful
20:46and not stereotyped as someone with an Afro from the '70s.
20:51[MUSIC PLAYING]
21:06I thought you liked Gummy Worms!
21:08[LAUGHTER]
21:11Getting sleep on a bus with a bunch of kids
21:14just doesn't work.
21:17[MUSIC PLAYING]
21:20[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
21:23CHRISTI: So here we are at Starpower,
21:24and this is the big competition for us.
21:26Our girls need to do really well.
21:28[MUSIC PLAYING]
21:32ABBY: Moms, they're running 30 minutes ahead.
21:35So get the makeup on as quickly as possible
21:38so that we have time to run this number.
21:39That's more important. MELISSA: Maddie, how's that--
21:41how's it feel?
21:42Does it feel good?
21:43MELISSA: Do you have to go to the bathroom?
21:45Maddie has to go to-- - No, I don't.
21:46MELISSA: You have-- no.
21:47Maddie, listen to me.
21:48You have to cooperate with me.
21:51We had 30 minutes to get our kids ready.
21:54They had to be stretched.
21:55We had to put French twists in their hair, fake eyelashes, all
21:58their makeup.
21:58It was crazy.
22:01Maddie, you have one number to dance and that's it.
22:04You're going to deal with it.
22:05Be a grownup.
22:08I'm sick of this attitude.
22:10I can't deal with Maddie's attitude.
22:12She's eight years old and sometimes she thinks she's 16.
22:15Maddie, you need earrings first.
22:18No.
22:19Maddie, calm down, please.
22:21I'm a perfectionist.
22:22I don't like to be rushed when I'm doing my makeup and hair.
22:26MELISSA: Guess what?
22:26Do you want to go home?
22:28You're never like this.
22:29Stop it.
22:30KELLY: Melissa's always freaking out on Maddie
22:32before the competitions.
22:33I feel bad for Maddie.
22:35ABBY: Maddie, go do some turns and see if that hair moves,
22:37please.
22:40What was that about?
22:41What was that?
22:42Melissa is always on time, always prepared, always where
22:45she needs to be.
22:46And when that doesn't happen exactly as she planned,
22:50then she gets worked up.
22:51And that, in turn, works up her daughters.
22:53Girls-- sh, stop.
22:55There are 1,500 numbers.
22:59OK?
23:00You're the first thing you're going to see from Abby Lee
23:02Miller.
23:02Do you understand how important it is?
23:03Be respectful backstage.
23:05When you come off the stage, I don't care if it
23:07was good, bad or otherwise.
23:09You act like it was the best time you ever danced.
23:11Do you understand me?
23:12This is what we have been working for all season.
23:14Today is what matters, right now in 10 minutes.
23:16Do you understand?
23:19[MUSIC PLAYING]
23:30MELISSA: Every single competition
23:31is really important to us because each competition is
23:35one step closer to Nationals.
23:36[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
23:38ANNOUNCER: Please help me welcome "Make You Mine,"
23:41number 128.
23:42[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
23:45(SINGING) Slip my lace on, put on my make-up,
23:50slide stiletto shoes on to get my groove on.
23:54Put the Chanel on with a little lip
23:58gloss to knock your socks off so we can get it on.
24:02I'm going to make you mine.
24:06I'm going to make you mine.
24:08Make you feel good.
24:10I'll be your fantasy.
24:17ABBY: Nia missed a big glissade.
24:19I corrected her over and over, and she still did it wrong.
24:23No excuses.
24:24(SINGING) Make you feel good.
24:27I'll be your fantasy.
24:37I'm your fantasy girl.
24:42[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
24:44HOLLY: During the "Make You Mine" performance,
24:46Nia was a little off.
24:48I just hope Abby's not too hard on her.
24:50[MUSIC PLAYING]
25:13MELISSA: Maddie is really upset right now.
25:15The group just performed and she doesn't
25:17feel that they performed to the best of their ability.
25:21ABBY: Girls, I'm talking to you right now because I'm
25:24disappointed.
25:26Now, why were you crying?
25:29ABBY: You got hurt a little?
25:31What happened?
25:34ABBY: OK.
25:35MELISSA: Maddie was upset because Nia did not do well.
25:39But she told Abby she was upset because she twisted her ankle.
25:42ABBY: Nobody knows the dance.
25:44MELISSA: She has to go to the bathroom.
25:50Did that say registration?
25:51Yeah.
25:53I'm inquiring about the photogenic award.
25:56I entered Vivi in a photogenic contest.
25:59We haven't had the opportunity to do the costume catalog thing
26:02yet.
26:03Now I got a mess going on, here.
26:05I thought that this would be a good start to maybe start
26:07to pursue something like that.
26:09Incline your head.
26:10OK. - You're going to have--
26:11All right.
26:12I won't touch you, then.
26:13I feel like the eyelashes are drooping.
26:15Do I need to staple your eyebrows up?
26:19Don't look scared.
26:20Don't-- don't look like somebody is goosing you.
26:22I'm feeling like you're a-- a bum model.
26:25Come on, look alive.
26:27Look at me and smile.
26:28Big smile-- big, big, big!
26:30Get it.
26:31Click!
26:32Smile!
26:35Ugh!
26:36You're just going to look over your shoulder?
26:37She should have her hands down.
26:38PHOTOGRAPHER: Look at me and smile.
26:40OK? CATHY: OK that's cute.
26:41Don't change your face.
26:42Freeze your face.
26:44You look like a pug.
26:48Oh, now she's running the show.
26:50[LAUGHS]
26:51CATHY: I went in with the attitude
26:53that I was going to do all of the posing for Vivi-Anne,
26:55and Vivi just took off.
26:56She just went off on her own.
26:57Big smile.
27:01I was amazed because she really started to perform
27:04and she was doing cute little poses
27:06and she was coming up with ideas all on her own.
27:08Whatever you want to do, honey.
27:09Just do whatever you feel like.
27:11I've just been fired.
27:12PHOTOGRAPHER: [LAUGHS]
27:14[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
27:16Now let's give a [INAUDIBLE].
27:20ABBY: It's very important that the girls win for the group
27:23numbers.
27:24They win all the time for their solos.
27:26That's easy.
27:27It's much more difficult to do a group routine.
27:29Everybody has to be in sync, timing issues,
27:32spatial awareness, everybody on the same count
27:34at the same time.
27:36When your group wins, you've won.
27:41ANNOUNCER: Only 4/10 of a point separate first from third.
27:48Third place is "Gratitude," number 124.
27:52[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
27:53Your second place world champion today is "Make You Mine,"
28:01number 128.
28:02[APPLAUSE]
28:05Name your studio, and who's the choreographer.
28:08Abby Lee Dance Company.
28:10MELISSA: Our girls definitely deserved first place.
28:12We were totally shocked.
28:17[MUSIC PLAYING]
28:19Why? these don't hurt.
28:20No, I meant on the left.
28:22Let me see.
28:24I just want to tell you that Babcia would have been so proud
28:27of you.
28:28You know, her and I were close like you and I,
28:30except we didn't fight like you and I fight.
28:32[LAUGHS]
28:33Because you're too much of a perfectionist.
28:35But she meant so much to me.
28:37She was my best friend, like you and I are.
28:39That's why you remind me so much of her.
28:42She loved angels, you know?
28:43And when she died, I took her hat--
28:46you know the angels that we always put on?
28:48But this is the special-- most special angel.
28:50This was her favorite little angel, so let's pin it on you.
28:53OK?
28:55My mom wore this pin on her hat every day when she had cancer.
28:58And she would have loved to see my kids dance the way they
29:00dance.
29:02And giving this pin to my daughter means the world to me.
29:04Do you know, whenever you go on stage
29:06I always pray for her to be on stage with you.
29:09I totally believe that my mom is always with my daughter
29:13when she's on stage, always.
29:15Do really good today, OK?
29:16And think of her when you're on stage.
29:18She'll be there with you.
29:20I love me so much.
29:21I'm doing this dance, "Angel," for my grandmother, Babcia.
29:25And I hope she's proud, and I know that she's watching me
29:28from Heaven.
29:29[APPLAUSE]
29:32[MUSIC PLAYING]
29:35(SINGING) You are the sky, the moon at night.
29:40You are my life, a shining light.
29:45These things, I've learned, are never
29:48ending stories we will tell.
29:53You don't know by the song you sing--
29:57you don't know how much joy you bring.
30:02You are my angel, angel, asleep inside your halo, halo.
30:11I'm right beside you, and you know,
30:15you know how much you're loved.
30:18I know you forever will be mine.
30:21MELISSA: I never get tired of watching Maddie dance.
30:23She always brings tears to my eyes.
30:26(SINGING) I'm right beside you.
30:30And you know, you know how much you're loved.
30:34I know you forever will be my angel.
30:40Forever will be my angel.
30:51[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
30:58MELISSA: Maddie did her solo so wonderful today.
31:00I'm so proud of her, and Babcia would be proud of her, too.
31:04[MUSIC PLAYING]
31:14All right.
31:15My-- my thing's all--
31:16[LAUGHS] Look at my sewing!
31:21Look!
31:22It's, like, all--
31:24[LAUGHTER]
31:24Ah, it's because I'm rushed.
31:26HOLLY: Look.
31:26This actually for the style--
31:28'70s Party Afro.
31:30You should have seen the woman at the store,
31:32"Is that for you?"
31:33It's offensive that Abby asked me to go out and buy an Afro
31:37wig.
31:37Why is she asking me?
31:38I think it's very stereotypical.
31:40CATHY: Why she's always depicting this Afro-American
31:45looking thing that--
31:45I know. CATHY: Yeah.
31:46And Nia's more than just that.
31:48CATHY: And why-- why the wig?
31:49Nia's solos have appeared to be going
31:52in a particular direction.
31:54The solo that she's now doing, she's got an Afro wig on
31:57and she's portraying Latifah, LaQuifa, somebody.
32:02And I just-- I feel bad.
32:04There's so many cute things that she could do, you know?
32:07HOLLY: I know.
32:08CATHY: It's almost starting to be not politically correct.
32:11Holly is a little hysterical over this, I think.
32:13I think that this is starting to really play and wear on Holly.
32:17Don't you let that affect you.
32:18Because you know what?
32:20You are going to go ahead and just smash it.
32:22Right. See?
32:23See?
32:23You're going to kill it.
32:25You could be one of my dancers.
32:27KELLY: I think Nia does get typed with her numbers,
32:29but everybody does.
32:31Brooke has done an acrobatic routine
32:33since she was six years old.
32:34She's never been given anything else.
32:36And there's many other things Brooke could do.
32:38Like, Brooke could do a lyrical number,
32:40but Abby just doesn't give it to her
32:41because she's typed as an acro.
32:43[MUSIC PLAYING]
32:45HOLLY: I felt I was put an awful situation.
32:47I don't want to pull her from a dance.
32:49She's worked hard.
32:50She deserves to be in that dance.
32:52At the same time, I don't feel comfortable with her being
32:54on stage dressed that way.
33:03[MUSIC PLAYING]
33:03[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
33:05ABBY: All of the girls are either doing a solo or a duet
33:07here at Starpower this week.
33:08So they need to make sure the technique is in check,
33:11the legs are straight, the feet are pointed,
33:13and they bring their own personality to the routine.
33:16ANNOUNCER: If you will please put your hands together
33:18[INAUDIBLE].
33:20(SINGING) Summer seems to go so fast.
33:23I guess the good times never last.
33:26(SINGING) Beautiful, dangerous, on a parallel universe.
33:33Earth shattering, it's a curse--
33:37(SINGING) Listen, baby, I'm going
33:39to put you on my hot list-- my gotta get,
33:42gotta, gotta, gotta get this.
33:44(SINGING) Ooh, I love you the same as before.
33:51[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
33:55[MUSIC PLAYING]
33:59JUDGE: Let's go onto number three, Vivi-Anne.
34:02CATHY: I entered Vivi in the Miss Photogenic contest,
34:04and we took some fabulous pictures.
34:07I just hope that those judges know what they're doing,
34:09and that they pick the right girl and it's Vivi, of course.
34:12It's too much like she's on stage instead of just taking
34:15a photo of her beauty. - Right.
34:16It's cute. No, it's cute.
34:17It is cute, but she's about to go into musical theater.
34:19I absolutely think she's got on some, like, stage makeup.
34:21- Yes, she does. - Yeah.
34:22It's totally about to go on.
34:23And I think that's, like, reinforced eyebrows
34:25and eyelashes, as a matter of fact.
34:28And it's kind of blurry.
34:29Yeah.
34:30It's actually not the most--
34:31best quality picture, either.
34:33She's got a costume on.
34:34Unless, of course.
34:35She wears sequins on a daily basis, which I do--
34:37- And it's no centered. - --but that's OK.
34:39I know you do.
34:39Yes.
34:40- It's not centered. - And not good lighting.
34:42- Not a good photo. - No.
34:43OK, this is a no?
34:44Yeah, not today.
34:44OK, great.
34:45Moving on--
34:46[MUSIC PLAYING]
34:57ANNOUNCER: For the title of Petite Miss, here
35:00at the Mohegan Sun, Maddie.
35:08[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
35:11Congratulations to you, Maddie.
35:15MELISSA: Maddie has six crowns now,
35:16and her goal is to make it to the double digits.
35:19Oh, my god, Maddie!
35:20ABBY: Woo!
35:21MELISSA: [LAUGHS] Congratulations!
35:29[MUSIC PLAYING]
35:31We're going to sit and look at these.
35:33OK?
35:33Oh, man.
35:34Ugh.
35:35Where's what the cute poses that you were doing?
35:38The photogenic award was nestled in between all
35:42of the other awards.
35:44I have no idea how many kids were in the contest.
35:47They did give three places out, and Vivi was not awarded
35:51any of those three places.
35:52I'm going to tell you what.
35:54That photographer-- no wonder he's working at competitions.
35:56Because he's no professional.
35:59You-- you don't even look like you're smiling.
36:01I should have had red lipstick on you.
36:02The photographer was a goof.
36:04Despite how bad he was, the judges
36:06should have seen the potential in Vivi.
36:09These are horrendous.
36:11I mean, no, you're beautiful.
36:14But these pictures--
36:16I don't understand what the guy was doing.
36:18[MUSIC PLAYING]
36:25ABBY: Nia is doing a character piece entitled "LaQuifa."
36:29I need Nia to know the ethnic dances.
36:33Those dances come from a heritage,
36:36and they have to be done correctly.
36:43"They Call Me LaQuifa."
36:49HOLLY: I'm really apprehensive about this dance.
36:51I don't like the song.
36:52I don't like the costume.
36:53I don't like the theme.
36:55Come on.
36:55It's called "LaQuifa."
36:59ANNOUNCER: "They Call Me LaQuifa."
37:03[MUSIC PLAYING]
37:07(SINGING) They call me LaQuifa, with a postmodern pim-- what?
37:10They call me LaQuifa with a postmodern pim-- what?
37:14LaQuifa!
37:15What? LaQuifa!
37:16What?
37:17What?
37:18LaQuifa!
37:18What? LaQuifa!
37:19What?
37:20What?
37:21I said, what?
37:22I said, what?
37:23I said-- I-- I--
37:24I said, what?
37:25I said, what?
37:26I said, what?
37:27Baby, they call-- baby they call--
37:29What? What?
37:30What? What?
37:31What? What?
37:32What? What?
37:33What?
37:34Work the Hallelu-- work the Hallelu-- work the Hallelu--
37:37work the-- work the-- work the Hallelu-- work the Hallelu--
37:40work the Hallelu-- work the--
37:42[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
37:45HOLLY: It was very disappointing.
37:47I came to see a dance and I saw my daughter walking
37:49across the stage, beautifully.
37:51It was entertaining, but it was not dancing.
37:54[MUSIC PLAYING]
37:55ABBY: Oh, ugh.
37:57HOLLY: Can I talk to you for a moment?
37:59- Sure. - Maybe outside.
37:59Sure.
38:00HOLLY: I have held my tongue long enough,
38:03and I'm tired of this.
38:04It is time for me to be direct and have a heart-to-heart
38:07with Abby now.
38:09It's still really unnerving for me that she's wearing a wig.
38:13It's 2011 and she's wearing a '70s Afro wig.
38:16It's the whole idea it's an Afro,
38:18it just seems so stereotypical.
38:19It is stereotypical, absolutely.
38:23I just feel like she's the token black kid.
38:25I wouldn't use the word token.
38:27I would use the word affluent and special and--
38:31It doesn't come across that way.
38:33Asmeret is not going to school for four years for free
38:36on the Martin Luther King Scholarship
38:37because she's white.
38:38If I send her to an audition, it's
38:41going to be an ethnic call.
38:43Nobody else is going to get to go but her.
38:46When they want to hire an African-American kid,
38:48they hire an African-American kid.
38:50But when I'm thinking of--
38:51I'm looking at Nia.
38:52All of her routines, it seems, is like, a jungle theme.
38:55There's a Satan theme.
38:57It like, there's a little undertone, a nuance that
39:00is like, a little bit of a negativity,
39:01that I would just like something that's a little bit more
39:03celebratory.
39:05Well, then you pick the music and you hire the choreographer
39:08and she can do the number.
39:11Abby, we don't have to go there.
39:12All I'm trying to do-- - Well, we-- you're going there.
39:14HOLLY: No, I'm not. - We don't have a problem.
39:16HOLLY: Abby--
39:17What I'm giving her works for her movements,
39:17for what she does well.
39:19She doesn't have good feet.
39:20She doesn't have great turnout.
39:21She doesn't straighten her knees.
39:23She's sway back.
39:24I'm telling you very nicely, pick the music,
39:26pick the choreographer-- - Abby, come on.
39:28That's not fair.
39:29Nobody-- but not one kid pays me $30 grand a year.
39:32And if you do, I will be a lot nicer and I'll sit down
39:35and we can have a big conference about it.
39:37Well, you know what?
39:38But for $250 bucks a month, go somewhere else.
39:40That's the way it is.
39:41First of all, I don't pay $250 a month.
39:42That's the first thing. - To me, you do.
39:44No, I don't.
39:45Look how I dress. Look where I live.
39:46Look what I pay.
39:48I pay what-- almost $100,000 a year in private school tuition
39:51and you're telling me I can't afford you?
39:53I did not say that. I said--
39:54Pretty much, you did.
39:55No, I did not.
39:56And you have my kid dress up in an Afro?
39:59Let's not go there.
40:00ABBY: I did not say that.
40:01I am Ivy League educated and my husband is.
40:03I said that if every customer paid me--
40:04We have a lot of capitol.
40:05--$30,000 a year--
40:06OK.
40:07--that I would be glad to sit down and have a conversation
40:09with you.
40:11Think closely about your-- think closely about your words.
40:13ABBY: Holly comes from a world of books.
40:15She doesn't come from my world.
40:16I am trying to give her daughter more opportunities.
40:19Nia could go in for any ethnic role and nail it,
40:23but she needs to have the dance background.
40:25And Holly keeps fighting it on me.
40:27But I'm telling you this with all sincerity.
40:29There's a lot of teachers out there.
40:31If you're not happy, look through the Yellow Pages.
40:33HOLLY: I am fed up with Abby.
40:35Abby needs to learn that my daughter's a dancer first,
40:38she's not ethnicity first.

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