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0:01[MUSIC PLAYING]
0:02ABBY: Previously on "Dance Moms"--
0:03This is the 2012 Abby Lee Dance Company concert.
0:05You're getting thrown to the wolves, woman.
0:07They're gonna chew you up and spit you out.
0:09Just be prepared. - You left.
0:10So we left. That's right.
0:11You always have excuses why your kids get what they get.
0:15Maddie, I asked to do a solo.
0:17You said no.
0:17I'm giving this part to Chloe.
0:19You need AA meeting.
0:20Now you need to go and see a therapist.
0:22You're a [BLEEP] liar. [APPLAUSE]
0:23ABBY: Our junior winner is Miss Maddie Ziegler.
0:26[CHEERING]
0:28Coming up on "Dance Moms"--
0:29She's allowed to dance.
0:30Yay!
0:31But she's not allowed to do tricks.
0:32OK.
0:33Just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier--
0:36We're here to see Abby.
0:37- --it got crazier. - You're Kaya.
0:38I'm Kaya. This is Nicaya.
0:39What are all the girls looking at?
0:41CHLOE: You don't just get to walk in and be on a competition
0:42team. - So far, I have just walked in.
0:44KELLY: Abby, just tell us what you're doing.
0:46Is Paige dancing in the dance or not?
0:48ABBY: If she's injured, she shouldn't be on stage.
0:50KELLY: I'm done!
0:52[DOOR SLAMS] [BLEEP] my kid!
0:55[THEME - NIKKO LOWE, "LIVIN' ON THE DANCE FLOOR"]
0:57(SINGING) Get up.
0:59Get on the floor.
1:01My world is with my girls, livin' on the dance floor.
1:06[MUSIC PLAYING]
1:12Come on, girls!
1:13Let's go!
1:14Come on.
1:20Congratulations on a successful dance concert.
1:25All of your performances were amazing.
1:28You showed the entire city of Pittsburgh
1:30why we are ranked nationally in the country as one
1:36of the top dance studios.
1:37The dance concert was a smashing success.
1:40I thought the kids were outstanding from beginning
1:44to end.
1:45But keep in mind, this is the road to nationals.
1:49This is where it gets tough, because we will be traveling
1:54to California to go to the iHollywood competition.
1:58[CHEERING]
2:00This competition is a big deal.
2:02And that's why it's important on our road to nationals.
2:05I want to put my little kids from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
2:09up against the big guns and see what happens.
2:11At the bottom of the pyramid, I have Paige.
2:16You couldn't do too much with the boot.
2:18I understand that.
2:18I want it to heal.
2:20You were supposed to see a doctor at four weeks.
2:22She's going this week.
2:23So let's hope, Paige, that you're
2:25going to be dancing again.
2:27Next, Brooke-- Brooke, the hip hop dance
2:32really wasn't your thing.
2:35Next, Mackenzie-- Kenzie, you went out there
2:40and you looked just like the big girls.
2:42However, I thought the hip hop choreography
2:45was a bit over your head.
2:47Moving up the pyramid, I have Nia.
2:50You received the award for the most improved student,
2:54and that is something to be very proud of.
2:57However, like I've said before, do not rest on your laurels.
3:01Next, Chloe-- Chloe, "Trapped," you did a great job
3:07in the role.
3:08And at the top of the pyramid is Maddie.
3:11Maddie, you're on top of the pyramid
3:14because you won the scholarship in your age division.
3:17[CHEERING]
3:20Kendall, you can see you're not on the pyramid yet.
3:24Keep working, keep trying, and you might get on this team.
3:29JILL: I think Abby's just playing games with me.
3:31She is torturing me and she's torturing Kendall.
3:37Mackenzie, you have a solo.
3:39You better do the whole number.
3:42Nia, you also have a solo.
3:44[APPLAUSE]
3:46Now, I have one more solo to give out.
3:50Who wants it?
3:51Who thinks they could do it?
3:55It's going to Chloe.
3:58I picked Chloe to do the solo this week because I still
4:01can't forget about Maddie and Melissa turning down a solo.
4:06Just remember, I can give the solo, and I can taketh away.
4:10Everybody is in the group routine.
4:13Kendall, I am inviting you to travel to California with us
4:19to participate in the group number.
4:21[APPLAUSE]
4:23You are dismissed.
4:24Spread apart.
4:26We have lots of work to do.
4:29[MUSIC PLAYING]
4:321, 2.
4:35You know, Abby put Paige in this group dance.
4:38I hope her foot gets cleared.
4:39When's your appointment?
4:40My appointment's tomorrow.
4:46ABBY: The group routine that we're doing is entitled,
4:50"I Can See the Kite Flying."
4:52Now, this piece is very important to the Abby Lee Dance
4:55Company.
4:56It's by the same author that wrote "Where
5:00Have All the Children Gone."
5:02And people recognize that all over the place.
5:05They ask me all the time about the number.
5:08So this has the same dark undertones.
5:11And the kids are actually in an insane asylum.
5:16And you see them rocking and fidgeting throughout the piece.
5:21I'm excited about it.
5:22I love it.
5:23I think this could be another big winner.
5:26This is quick, and quick, and step, together.
5:30You're rushing that.
5:30[MUSIC PLAYING]
5:31"I See the Kite Flying" is a really creepy number.
5:34We're all, like, mental patients.
5:37We see a kite, but we don't know if we actually see it.
5:40It's like in our head, or--
5:41I'm so confused.
5:43I don't know.
5:44I always told you, Abby does weird well.
5:47So the weirder the better.
5:48Yeah, it'll be spectacular.
5:49No one in LA will be doing anything like this.
5:52I don't think so either.
5:53No.
5:54ABBY: Hey.
5:55There's no getting out of this group, so learn it.
5:58GIANNA: 2, 3, 4, 5.
6:007.
6:01[MUSIC PLAYING]
6:04Hi, can I help you guys?
6:06This is Nicaya.
6:07We're here to see Abby. - Oh, yeah.
6:08She's expecting us.
6:09This is Nicaya.
6:10Hi, nice to meet you, sweetie.
6:12We're looking for a new studio to compete.
6:14ABBY: Hi. - Hi.
6:15Hello.
6:16ABBY: Hi, how you doing?
6:17I was approached by Kaya and her daughter Nicaya
6:21after our dance concert.
6:23I had no idea who the woman was.
6:25But it turns out she's from St. Louis from a very reputable
6:29teacher, a colleague of mine.
6:30So I'm going to check the kid out.
6:32That's the least I could do. You're Kaya.
6:34I'm Kaya. This is Nicaya.
6:36Nicaya, hi.
6:37What are all the girls looking at?
6:39There's someone here?
6:40She's inviting someone in.
6:41Do you want to get your shoes and your street clothes off?
6:44And I'm going to check her out a little bit.
6:45If you want to go up and sit with the moms,
6:47you're more than welcome to.
6:48All right.
6:49ABBY: I'm always looking to make my competition team stronger.
6:52Maybe this kid Nicaya and her mom
6:54are just what my team needs before nationals.
6:57There's certainly nothing like a surprise or two
6:59to wake everybody up. [MUSIC PLAYING]
7:01Hi. KAYA: Hello.
7:02Hi, how are you?
7:03I'm fine.
7:03HOLLY: Good.
7:04I'm Melissa.
7:06What's your name? - I'm Kaya.
7:07Kaya-- pretty name.
7:08Melissa.
7:09Hi, I'm Holly. Nice to meet you.
7:10- Hi, Holly. - I'm Kelly.
7:11Kelly.
7:12CHRISTI: Christi.
7:13I'm Jill.
7:14So where are you from?
7:15I'm from St. Louis.
7:16Oh, OK.
7:17You moved here?
7:18Yeah.
7:19KELLY: I don't know why Abby constantly insists on bringing
7:20Oh, OK.
7:22new people in.
7:23It's bad enough when she brings people
7:24in from the studio that we know and have danced with.
7:28Now she's bringing a stranger in.
7:29I just think it's crazy.
7:30MELISSA: So what did you think of our dance concert?
7:35I mean, they're really, really talented,
7:37I mean, as far as technique goes.
7:38But as far as entertaining, I don't think
7:41it was really entertaining.
7:42It didn't have a lot of personal-- you know, like--
7:44Really? [GASPS]
7:45The whole show?
7:46CHLOE: So the new mom comes upstairs,
7:48and she sits herself down, and she seems a little opinionated,
7:53to say the least.
7:54MELISSA: I think our kids are fabulous on stage.
7:56I mean, I have to-- KAYA: I think they are too.
7:57I wouldn't have brought her here if I didn't
7:59think you had fabulous dancers.
8:00I just think that they could use a little more personality,
8:03a little more diva-tude, and she has that.
8:05Diva-tude is just when you're born with it,
8:07when you just know you have it.
8:09No amount of technique or any type of training
8:11gives you that.
8:12I didn't think any of Abby's dancers had that.
8:14Diva-tude? MELISSA: We're not divas.
8:15KAYA: Yeah, that's what I call it.
8:15[LAUGHS]
8:16MELISSA: What does your jacket say?
8:19Black Patsy.
8:20I love that name.
8:21It's really pretty.
8:23ABBY: You guys keep working.
8:24Get that down pat.
8:26Come on over here to the bar.
8:28Let me see fifth position, tendu.
8:31And let me see a ronde de jambe.
8:34I asked Nicaya to execute a few ballet steps.
8:39I want to see if she has a foundation, if she knows
8:43her terminology.
8:45And can you spell ronde de jambe?
8:48You have to know the names of everything.
8:51We're really into terminology here.
8:52MADDIE: It's good that girls want to tryout for our team.
8:55But I don't really want any a new member
8:57right now because I'm perfectly fine with all my friends.
9:01Do you do any acrobatics or gymnastics?
9:04ABBY: None?
9:05Now I'm beginning to wonder about this girl.
9:07Is she for real?
9:09Is she an advanced student or is she just a recreation student
9:12that goes once a week whose mother's trying to get her
9:15onto a competition team?
9:17Second, second.
9:19She's gonna audition or--?
9:21KAYA: I think she should just choreographing a routine
9:24and just put her in it.
9:25Because her testing to see how flexible she is is not really--
9:28There's a lot of other kids who want to dance on this team,
9:31so I don't know why she would just get to walk in and be
9:33on it, when there's other kids who have had
9:34to go through auditions.
9:35Other kids don't have a resume like hers.
9:37So I'm gonna call your mom down, okie doke?
9:40Oh, Abby wants me to come down.
9:41KELLY: Ha.
9:42Good luck!
9:43CHRISTI: Good luck.
9:44I ain't scared of her.
9:47JILL: God, she's a loose can-- you never know what's coming
9:50out of her mouth-- CHLOE: That's true.
9:51JILL: --no matter how nice, how mean.
9:53Are you serious?
9:54Your recital was boring and all these kids
9:56need help to perform.
9:58You're not gonna work on this team, girlfriend.
10:00She knows 0 terminology.
10:02My kids are the whole package, not just
10:05little bits and pieces.
10:07When my kids leave here, they have a career, a livelihood,
10:10forever.
10:12KAYA: I don't think that these spelling tests and all
10:13this other stupid dance terminology is relevant.
10:16What I personally want Abby to do
10:17is stick my daughter's damn dance CD in there
10:19and watch her dance.
10:20You're the professional.
10:21You've been doing this all this time.
10:23You create stars, so why would I question what you're saying?
10:26Yay!
10:27Hallelujah!
10:28We have a winner. Yay!
10:29KAYA: Don't just disguise her all the way.
10:30ABBY: Can you come back tomorrow?
10:31NICAYA: Yes.
10:32ABBY: So come back, bring her in tomorrow.
10:34I'll have more time. JILL: I just heard her say.
10:35CHRISTI: I heard her say come back tomorrow.
10:37But why?
10:38You don't get to just come and be on the team.
10:40Our girls are two weeks from nationals.
10:42Why Abby would ever consider adding a new girl to the team
10:45right now is beyond me.
10:47That does not make any kind of sense whatsoever.
10:50Just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier,
10:53it got crazier.
10:57So she wanted to know if you could spell ronde de jambe,
11:00if you could spell dance terminology.
11:03What the hell does that have to do with dancing?
11:06She goes, do ronde de jambe.
11:08Now, can you spell ronde de jambe?
11:09I go, no.
11:11That is [BLEEP],, and she knows that.
11:13She doesn't want to give you a chance
11:14because I meant what I said.
11:15Her dancers have no personality.
11:18What do you have on now?
11:19A title jacket-- so what difference does it make?
11:21We're gonna play her game.
11:22We're gonna go home tonight, we're
11:23gonna learn this terminology.
11:24She's gonna learn how to spell all these stupid ass dance
11:27terms, and we're gonna come back tomorrow and play the game Abby
11:29wants to play.
11:31[MUSIC PLAYING]
11:41(SINGING) If you take my hand, you're all I'll ever need.
11:46We can dance out in the sand, watch a sunset by the sea.
11:51"Summer Love Song" is about the summer and parties and just
11:54being out of school.
11:56And I wrote it because I love all those things.
11:58So I'm going to put a recording of me singing on the internet
12:02and see how many, like, hits and views it gets.
12:05(SINGING) Spin that record round and round,
12:07because I can't get enough of that summer sound.
12:10PAIGE: I'm gonna be Brooke's backup singer.
12:12(SINGING) Turn the bass way up and boom it, yeah.
12:16Look, you already got a hit--
12:18Oh, my god.
12:20--in, like, the two seconds you just posted it.
12:22Yeah.
12:23[MUSIC PLAYING]
12:29Hi, Nia.
12:31Hi.
12:32How you doing?
12:33Hello.
12:34Hi, girls.
12:35Hello.
12:37PAIGE: Mom, wonder if that girl's coming today.
12:39JILL: If I had to make a guess, I'd say, uh-huh.
12:43I can't believe she had that on her shirt.
12:46JILL: It said Black Patsy.
12:47It said Black Patsy, AKA--
12:48I'm White Christie.
12:49KELLY: You're Black Holly.
12:51HOLLY: Can you imagine?
12:52Like, what is she talking about?
12:54I'm like, Patsy. CHRISTI: Black Patsy.
12:55I'm SWF.
12:56GIRLS: Hi.
12:58HOLLY: Hi.
12:59How are you?
13:00JILL: Come in.
13:00KELLY: Hi.
13:03KAYA: Excuse me.
13:04Mm-hmm.
13:07HOLLY: When Kaya arrives, there's
13:09a tension that's evident from the moment she steps foot
13:11into the room.
13:14What do you want the girls to call you?
13:17JILL: Oh, they call you Nini?
13:19KAYA: Mm-hmm.
13:21[LAUGHTER]
13:22GIRLS: (SINGING) Laquifa.
13:24Ooh.
13:25HOLLY: We don't know Kaya, and we're trying to figure out
13:29who Kaya is.
13:30Come on, girls. Let's go.
13:31Let's go. Let's go.
13:32[MUSIC PLAYING]
13:385, 6, 7, go.
13:415, 6, 7, 8.
13:45God, I hope Paige gets cleared today.
13:48Because I think it's going to take her a week
13:50or so to get used to just walking on her foot.
13:54I think Paige is nervous.
13:55I think she's afraid that the doctor's gonna tell her,
13:58you know, we need to wait another two weeks just to be
14:00sure.
14:01Go, 2, 3, 4, drop.
14:05So where are you going for nationals?
14:06- We don't know. - We don't.
14:08Well, she hasn't told us.
14:09How do you have a life outside of dance
14:10if you have no idea what you're doing in four days?
14:12CHRISTI: We don't. This is our li--
14:13- This is our life. - We devote it to these kids.
14:14You devote your time here. This is your life.
14:16Do any of you work?
14:17- No. - I used to work.
14:19I owned a business.
14:20I had to sell it.
14:21What do you have nannies at home
14:22CHRISTI: No.
14:23Just really good husbands who pick up--
14:25Exactly. JILL: So you're a single mom?
14:27Yes, I am.
14:27With four kids?
14:29- Yep. - Wow.
14:30It's a team effort.
14:31Yeah, well, our relationship ended because of dance.
14:33Oh, really?
14:34Oh.
14:35Lovely.
14:36Your husband didn't support dance?
14:37I didn't have a husband.
14:39I had a wife.
14:43Hmm.
14:45It's like you could hear a pin drop in the room,
14:47like they had never, ever heard of anybody being
14:49a lesbian before.
14:51So what would you like us to call you?
14:53CHRISTI: Because we've been calling you Patsy.
14:54KAYA: Really? - Yes.
14:55Well, you call yourself Patsy.
14:57The Black Pasty. CHRISTI: I know.
14:59We were calling you Black Patsy.
15:00I want to know what that means.
15:02You know who Patsy Ramsey is?
15:03Yeah.
15:04KAYA: The crazy stage mom.
15:05KELLY: That's you.
15:06KAYA: All dance moms have an inner Patsy.
15:08KELLY: Are you really proud of that,
15:09that that's your nickname.
15:11Because like, I certainly wouldn't want
15:13to be compared to Patsy Ramsey.
15:14[LAUGHTER]
15:175, 6, 7, 8, 1.
15:21KELLY: Abby? ABBY: Yes.
15:22Excuse me. Can I get Paige?
15:24It's time for her doctor's appointment.
15:25Go ahead, go.
15:26Good luck.
15:28See ya.
15:29[MUSIC PLAYING]
15:33[MUSIC PLAYING]
15:33(SINGING) It was gonna be--
15:35ABBY: Stretch your feet.
15:36Feet.
15:38Sloppy feet.
15:40The arms in second.
15:42Chloe's solo, it's called "Glitz and glamour."
15:45I needed something to represent new Hollywood--
15:48the piercings, the tattoos, somebody
15:51that would stab your eyeballs out and step right over you
15:55to get ahead.
15:56That's Chloe.
15:57[MUSIC PLAYING]
15:57This is the road to nationals.
15:59We're going to iHollywood.
16:01All those kids on the West Coast are gonna be there.
16:03You have the target on your back.
16:05[MUSIC PLAYING]
16:12I don't want to hear your feet hit the ground.
16:16Play.
16:19What did the doctor said?
16:20KELLY: She got cleared. She's allowed to dance.
16:22[CLAPPING]
16:23Yay!
16:25KELLY: But she's not allowed to do tricks for two more weeks.
16:28OK.
16:29KELLY: He said to do a very limited, you know,
16:31not to overwork it.
16:33OK.
16:34KELLY: So--
16:35ABBY: Paige can be in the number.
16:36But is she gonna be full out?
16:39I don't know.
16:40And I want to win.
16:45Hi.
16:46KAYA: Hello.
16:47I want to get you to fill this paperwork out.
16:49OK.
16:50OK?
16:51So I was thinking, well, maybe she could jump in and take
16:54Paige's spot.
16:55But now Paige came back from the doctor today and said,
16:58hey, I'm allowed to dance.
17:00[EXHALES] But she's already been there.
17:03She's learned all of the routine.
17:04I mean, you're taking a chance on Paige
17:06because she just got over an injury, so it's kind of iffy.
17:09No, I'm taking a chance on Paige
17:10because she's been here since she's three years of.
17:12KAYA: Paige has a boot on her foot.
17:14Even once the boot comes off her foot,
17:15she won't be able to dance up to par with the rest of the team
17:18because she's not really picking up the choreography.
17:20And Kaya already knows it.
17:21There's no reason that she shouldn't replace her just
17:23for this number. Give her a chance.
17:24Let her compete with you guys. Let her on the team.
17:26ABBY: Usually, when you walk into the studio,
17:27you have to be here for a year before you even audition.
17:30But what would it take for me to show you how bad I want her
17:34on this team and how bad she wants to be on the team?
17:36If I don't put her in this number and she's just a swing,
17:40are you still gonna go?
17:41Yes, we will.
17:44ABBY: Kaya is standing right in front of me,
17:46telling me she'll do whatever it takes to get her
17:48in on this competition team.
17:50Well, hey, we're going to California.
17:52I might just invite the kid to go.
17:54All right, you better know it. You might get put on the spot.
17:56OK. ABBY: All right, goodnight.
17:58KAYA: OK, thank you. NICAYA: Thank you.
18:06CHRISTI: Patsy invites all the moms to lunch,
18:08because, well, she wants to get to know us better.
18:10And frankly, I'd like to get to know her better.
18:12You had a boyfriend and you moved out?
18:14Oh, a girlfriend. - Yes.
18:16Oh.
18:17What made you go from a man to a woman?
18:18KAYA: I think my gaydar kind of picked up
18:20a little vibe off of Melissa.
18:22She was a little too friendly to me.
18:23Sorry, I'm just curious.
18:24KAYA: OK, so what do you guys think about me so far?
18:27KELLY: Well, with your AKA of being Black Patsy,
18:31like, you're crazy.
18:33Why would that make me crazy?
18:34KELLY: Crazy dance mom.
18:35All of you are crazy dance moms.
18:37I'm not that crazy.
18:38So since you're kind of in my position
18:40trying to get your child on the team, what does that take?
18:43Are you crazy?
18:44You think I'm gonna tell you how to get your daughter
18:46on the team when I can't even get
18:48my own daughter on the team?
18:49You just waltzed in and threw your kid in the room.
18:51And you don't just get to walk in and be on a competition
18:54MELISSA: You should see our contract.
18:54team.
18:55So far I have just walked in.
18:56CHRISTI: We have invested our time, our lives, our energy,
18:59and our efforts in this.
19:00It just is very unnerving that you think like, oh,
19:03my daughter's just as good.
19:05Are you coming to LA with us?
19:06I don't know if I'm going to LA or not.
19:08HOLLY: It's a bizarre situation.
19:10This is a bizarre lunch.
19:12We're not in a very good place.
19:13Who are you?
19:15All we know is that it says Black Patsy on a jacket
19:17and you're Nicaya's mom.
19:18KAYA: The moms can say whatever the hell
19:20they want to say about me. I'm not here for them.
19:22I'm here for my daughter.
19:23I don't have any feelings towards them.
19:24I don't give a damn what they feel about me.
19:26It's all about Nicaya.
19:27[MUSIC PLAYING]
19:29ABBY: Solos this week are vital.
19:31I want to see who is strong enough mentally and physically
19:35to win at nationals.
19:38Stomach, use your stomach.
19:39Up.
19:41That knee was so bent.
19:43Arabesque, straighten that knee, Nia.
19:45Come on.
19:46Nia's solo this week, it's a '20s scat,
19:48inspired by Josephine Baker.
19:51There's no vocals, so her timing must be impeccable.
19:56This is a big challenge for Nia.
19:58HOLLY: Josephine Baker could shake.
19:59She was like the Beyoncé of the time.
20:01Oh, my god, and Nia's the new Beyoncé upcoming.
20:04HOLLY: Oh, yeah.
20:05[LAUGHS]
20:06CHRISTI: That's Nia fierce.
20:07Left and around.
20:08CHRISTI: Oh, my eyes, my eyes!
20:11You know, there's something when
20:13you see Abby get up and gyrate.
20:15It's-- it's not a pretty sight.
20:19First she wanted Holly to paddle her.
20:20Now she's shaking it in our faces.
20:25[MUSIC PLAYING]
20:291 and a 2, 3 and a 4, 5 and a 6, 7, 8.
20:33Kenzie will be doing a solo this week.
20:35It's entitled "Hollywood."
20:37She really needs to stay on the music.
20:40That's what we're working on this week.
20:42You tell me what this dance is about.
20:49Yes, all right.
20:50I love my solo this week because my solo's
20:52called "Hollywood," and I love Hollywood.
20:58Spread apart.
20:59Let's go.
21:00This piece is very important to the Abby Lee Dance Company.
21:03I'm excited about it.
21:04I love it.
21:05I think this could be a winner.
21:07You move out of there for right now.
21:10All right, let's go.
21:11Get on the line.
21:18Nicaya's been there every minute.
21:20So I want to see what the group looks like.
21:23Nicaya, stand in Paige's spot.
21:25That's it.
21:30All right, let me see you out, you in.
21:33Go.
21:34KELLY: I'm watching rehearsal, and it's like Abby's playing
21:37game.
21:38Paige will do the dance one time,
21:40and then Nicaya does it the next time.
21:42Please tell me who is on the team here.
21:48That's her turning foot that's hurt.
21:49Oh.
21:55All right, you're both boring, boring, boring.
21:58PAIGE: My foot's really bothering me in rehearsal,
22:01so I just hope Miss Abby let's me take it easy.
22:03KELLY: Hey, peanut.
22:04How's your foot?
22:05HOLLY: Oh, I'm so sorry.
22:07MELISSA: Is your foot OK?
22:08What's the matter?
22:12You need to say, Miss Abby, it hurts when I step on it
22:15and fan kick.
22:16Can I just mark that until I'm on stage?
22:18She will say yes.
22:20This is your first day of not having a cast on your foot.
22:24Paige has waited for four weeks to get this boot off
22:28And Abby keeps pulling her to put someone else in the dance.
22:28of her foot.
22:31ABBY: All right, ladies, I want you all to know that Paige just
22:34came to me and said, can she mark the pancake because it
22:37hurts her supporting foot.
22:39I'm just letting Paige sit out during rehearsal
22:41because her foot still bothering her.
22:43I'm not replacing her.
22:44But if that foot still hurts come competition time, I will.
22:48The show must go on.
22:49And it's gonna happen, no matter who's out there dancing.
22:53If she's injured, she shouldn't be on stage.
22:55She should save it till she's ready.
22:57KELLY: One part of me wants to go down there
22:59and just knock somebody out.
23:01So I excused myself.
23:02I'm done!
23:03[DOOR SLAMS] [BLEEP] my kid!
23:08ABBY: Once again, Kelly overreacts and throws
23:10a hissy fit.
23:11Well, you know what, Kelly?
23:13The reason I keep bringing new moms and new kids
23:15into the studio is because of behavior like yours.
23:17I'm sick of it.
23:18Kaya, if you weren't here and Nicaya wasn't here,
23:20this whole issue would not exist.
23:22CHRISTI: I think where it started--
23:23Of course it does.
23:24--was that Abby was choosing between Nicaya and Paige.
23:26Her mom was sitting there saying
23:27she don't think she's ready to go out there and dance yet.
23:30Paige is still hurt.
23:31She was cleared by the doctor.
23:32Are you a medical doctor?
23:33KAYA: What the hell is the problem if one more kid is
23:36You got the wrong mama this time 'cause I don't back down
23:36added.
23:38to nobody. - Oh.
23:39Well, maybe you found the wrong mama.
23:42I ain't found the wrong [BLEEP]..
23:44None of-- y'all don't move me.
23:45But the point is, is that Paige is either gonna dance
23:48or Nini's gonna dance.
23:49She said she needed to rest it.
23:50KAYA: OK, I'm not gonna give y'all the-- if Abby says
23:52she's gonna do this number, we're gonna be in LA doing
23:54And I don't have to answer to any of y'all.
23:55the number.
23:56I don't care.
23:58ABBY: Kelly storming out of the studio
23:59and the moms upstairs screaming at each other,
24:02I decided something needed to be done.
24:04So I called them all downstairs to straighten this mess out.
24:07I'm sorry.
24:07I think it's ridiculous.
24:08JILL: No, I think it's ridiculous too.
24:10ABBY: I have a kid that I don't even
24:12know that's from another studio that moved here.
24:15I have a kid that's hurt.
24:16I'm liable ladies.
24:17This is a business.
24:18I want Nicaya to take out Brokeback Brooke and Peg Leg
24:21Paige just to shut Kelly up because she talks so much
24:24I just want to prove to her that her daughters are not all
24:25[BLEEP].
24:27that she thinks they are.
24:28She's upset because she said nobody's dancing,
24:30the routine looks stupid, and her daughter
24:32is always in the back burner. - No.
24:34But I don't like them blaming and saying because Nicaya
24:37Between Paige and a student that isn't even your student--
24:37walked in--
24:39that's what her problem was. - She's not choosing anything.
24:42But it's up to Abby's discretion, not yours.
24:44All y'all are full of crap, so I don't care.
24:46JILL: I'm not doing this.
24:48You can have one another.
24:49KAYA: 'Cause you're [BLEEP].
24:50I'm not doing this.
24:51KAYA: You are.
24:52We don't know what's going on with the number.
24:54This is chaos.
24:55So considering the behavior of these mothers,
24:59you told me that you were ready to go to California,
25:01I think you should go.
25:03I am not making you a promise that your daughter is in this.
25:06So don't get there and start acting like that.
25:09All right.
25:10Take care.
25:11I asked Nicaya's mother to go to California with us.
25:13She's all excited.
25:16But if she opens her mouth again, look out.
25:24[MUSIC PLAYING]
25:29We've just arrived at iHollywood,
25:30and I am so excited to be here.
25:32Coming from 3,000 miles across the country
25:35to compete against all these amazing studios in California
25:40is really an opportunity of a lifetime.
25:46ABBY: You know what?
25:47I have been so busy, I haven't even given it a second thought.
25:51Before I could even make a decision about Nicaya dancing
25:54in this group number, I need to speak with Kelly.
25:56She stormed out of the studio yesterday.
25:59I don't know what's going on with her.
26:00And I want to hear it from the horse's mouth.
26:02Tell me what really was going on yesterday.
26:05Paige is telling me that, my foot still hurts and da-da-da,
26:07da-da-da.
26:08Yeah.
26:09But I didn't come all the way to California
26:11to go out there and have her marking a number on stage.
26:13She's not gonna mark it on stage.
26:15That's why she want-- - She has to do it full out.
26:16Yeah, that's why she wanted to mark it in practice,
26:18so it wasn't hurting on stage.
26:20ABBY: That I understand.
26:21I just don't understand what's going on.
26:23Why is there always these fireworks?
26:25I have no idea.
26:27I didn't have a firework yesterday.
26:29KAYA: That is a lie.
26:30That's a lie.
26:31You were upstairs crying and having a fit
26:33and cussing and going off.
26:34Because you kept saying, I don't want to go all the way to LA
26:36and her not be in the number. KELLY: Excuse me.
26:37Was I upstairs crying, cussing, doing anything yesterday?
26:40KAYA: That's a lie. Please don't--
26:41ABBY: I know something fishy is up with Kelly.
26:42I know that she left rehearsal because she was upset thinking
26:47that Nicaya was going to replace Paige.
26:49Take your new outsider and put her in and give her a chance.
26:52Don't give anybody on your team a chance.
26:54Chloe, we got to run this number and go.
26:56All of this is taking time away from your solo.
27:00All of this madness is going on in the dressing room,
27:02and I'm trying to block it out.
27:03Because frankly, at this point, I don't care.
27:05My focus really needs to be Chloe and her solo.
27:08ABBY: You're gonna go and you're gonna look down
27:09at the audience, and you're gonna look where the judges are
27:11You're gonna figure it out because I've
27:12sitting.
27:13trained you to do that.
27:14All right, It's your turn. You're up.
27:15Over here, let's run through it once.
27:17Let's talk about this.
27:19"'20s Scat" is really the most mature piece Nia has ever
27:22performed before.
27:23And I'm nervous.
27:24Can she pull it off?
27:25ABBY: Remember, this is the road to nationals.
27:28We are on our way.
27:30Let's go.
27:31[MUSIC PLAYING]
27:36CHLOE: I'm just a little bit nervous because the LA girls
27:39are really fierce here.
27:41But I won't let that stand in my way.
27:43ANNOUNCER: Please welcome to the iHollywood Dance stage,
27:46from Abby Lee Dance Company, this is this Chloe performing
27:49to "Glitz and glamour."
27:52[MUSIC - "GLITZ AND GLAMOUR"]
28:01(SINGING) All I need is friends, but I don't really have them.
28:07OK, I mean, I really have them.
28:10I just don't have them where I am.
28:13Oh.
28:14(SINGING) It's because of my job.
28:16I travel around a lot.
28:19And I don't exactly--
28:20[CHEERING]
28:22ABBY: The very first set of turns she bobbles.
28:25And then suddenly she nailed like five turns.
28:28By the end of this number, they're never
28:30gonna remember the beginning.
28:31(SINGING) I got no, I ain't got no, I
28:35ain't got no glitz and glamour.
28:37I ain't got no, I ain't got no glitz and glamour.
28:41[APPLAUSE]
28:43CHRISTI: I think that there were parts of Chloe's dance
28:45that were brilliant.
28:47And there were parts that need work.
28:49If she would have had another week,
28:50I think that dance would have been amazing.
28:54NIA: I'm very nervous about doing my solo.
28:58It's really difficult dancing to scatting because there's
29:00no beat.
29:02I hope I can pull it off.
29:03ANNOUNCER: Please welcome, from Abby Lee Dance Company,
29:06this is the Nia, performing to "'20s Scat."
29:09[APPLAUSE]
29:13[WOMAN SCATTING]
29:33Nia is right on the money.
29:36She's fabulous.
29:37It's simple.
29:38It's clean.
29:39She does everything she's supposed to do.
29:42And at the end, she makes it her own.
29:45[LAUGHTER]
29:52[APPLAUSE]
29:58[MUSIC PLAYING]
29:59Nia is a mini goddess on stage.
30:00She has has the audience eating out of the palm of her hands.
30:04And I think Josephine Baker would have been very proud.
30:08[CHEERING]
30:09KELLY: Good job.
30:10Good job.
30:11It was great.
30:11It was nice.
30:13Hey, hey, hey, good job.
30:17Good job.
30:19I loved it.
30:20Chloe, I think some things are really, really good.
30:22And I think some things were not so good.
30:26That's not the way to go to nationals.
30:28Mackenzie, are you ready?
30:30Cover that stage.
30:31Make sure you get out there far enough.
30:33All right, let's go, let's go, let's go.
30:35[MUSIC PLAYING]
30:39MACKENZIE: My solo is gonna go well, because my song's called
30:42"Hollywood" and we're in Hollywood.
30:44ANNOUNCER: Please welcome, from Abby Lee Dance Company,
30:47this is Mackenzie.
30:48And she'll be performing to "Hollywood."
30:53[MUSIC - "HOLLYWOOD"]
31:03(SINGING) Spinning round in circles, round in circles
31:06in my mind, I just close my eyes and I
31:09can see that perfect sign.
31:10Countdown to adventure, new direction,
31:13take me to my favorite place.
31:16MELISSA: So I'm watching Mackenzie do her solo.
31:19She comes out with so much energy,
31:21and I think she's doing great.
31:23(SINGING) The sun shines hot and life's
31:26over the top in Hollywood.
31:31Any time we want fun, it's a town
31:33that's ready to play, oh, night or day.
31:36[CHEERING]
31:38Yay, Mackenzie!
31:41ABBY: She did a great job.
31:42Her legs were straight.
31:43Her feet were pointed.
31:44She remembered the choreography.
31:46What more can I ask for?
31:48Great job!
31:49[LAUGHS]
31:51ABBY: Nice job.
31:52Kenzie, you listened to your music.
31:53And every time you got a little bit ahead,
31:56you stopped and you slowed down.
31:57And the hand walks were good.
31:59Yeah.
32:00So you guys need to get the lipstick off, tone down
32:02the blush, and get your customes on.
32:04Let's go.
32:05[CHATTER]
32:07Hey, guys, I need everybody dressed.
32:10I haven't even said who's in the dance
32:11and who isn't in the dance.
32:13I haven't even spaced everybody yet.
32:15KAYA: The only reason I think that Abby won't just
32:17replace Paige and put Nicaya in this number
32:19is because Abby's just scared that Nicaya's
32:21gonna go right in there and blow her dancers out of the water.
32:23She claims it takes years and years and years
32:26to get on the level with her elite dancers.
32:28Well, Nicaya got it in 24 hours.
32:30Have you asked her, like, recently what she's thinking?
32:34Ask her.
32:35Just say, I don't want my feelings
32:37to be hurt at the very last minute.
32:38If you don't think I should be in this number right now,
32:41then you can just tell me that.
32:42NICAYA: If I would have traveled all the way to LA
32:45and she didn't let me dance, that really
32:47would make me feel really sad.
32:49This has been an honor getting this far.
32:53But I want to really know if I'm going
32:55to be doing this routine or--
32:56I'm deciding right now.
32:59Right this second, I'm looking at it.
33:00Let's go.
33:01Our group number is coming up next.
33:04Who's gonna do it, Nicaya or Paige?
33:07I have yet to make the decision.
33:09So I'm gonna run the number one more time.
33:11Whoever is not keeping up is out.
33:14That's my final decision.
33:15I came here to win.
33:17Make the head move.
33:24KELLY: Here we are in the dressing room.
33:26Everybody is dressed and ready to go on stage
33:28and she's still playing mind games.
33:30Abby, just tell us what you're doing.
33:32Is Paige dancing in the dance or not?
33:35Because in five minutes they're gonna be on stage.
33:37And you have my daughter so confused,
33:40she doesn't know whether she's coming or going.
33:42ABBY: Wait, what is she doing with those pigeon-toed feet?
33:44I don't think you're there.
33:45They've done the number over and over in the dressing room,
33:48and nobody's impressing me very much.
33:49Do I take a chance on Paige, who is still recovering,
33:53or do I take a chance on the new girl, Nicaya,
33:56who's yet to prove herself?
33:57Who's going to dance in the group number?
33:59It's a tough choice.
34:06[MUSIC PLAYING]
34:07Make the head move.
34:09KELLY: If I traveled 3,000 miles with Paige and Abby
34:13doesn't let her dance, I am gonna flip.
34:15[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
34:22We're all doing the dance. Let's go.
34:24You didn't come 3,000 miles to sit on your butt.
34:26Everybody out there.
34:27Let's go.
34:28CHRISTI: If letting Nicaya be in the dance
34:30is what allowed Paige to be in the dance,
34:32then so be it, because she is a member of this team
34:34and deserved it.
34:35Listen to me.
34:44Yes?
34:45I'm really worried about Paige.
34:47Can you physically do it?
34:48I'm not so sure.
34:50I need to see it full out, Paige.
34:52When we walk out of here, game faces.
34:53Let's go.
34:54[MUSIC PLAYING]
35:00I'm really nervous to do the group dance.
35:03I really want to show Miss Abby that I deserve
35:06to be on this team.
35:07ANNOUNCER: Please welcome Abby Lee Dance Company, performing
35:09to "I See the Kite Flying."
35:11[APPLAUSE]
35:14The last time we did a haunting, controversial spoken
35:16word number was "Where Have All the Children Gone?"
35:19And it won hands down.
35:21That's what it needs to be again today.
35:23We're getting ready for nationals.
35:25It's overall first place or nothing.
35:29[MUSIC - "I SEE THE KITE FLYING"]
35:30(SPOKEN WORD) The sky was so blue
35:34that it wasn't blue any longer.
35:37Every time that sky comes back into my mind, the colors shift.
35:43The blue gets bluer and the horizon widens.
35:47When the words starts speaking for the group dance,
35:49because there is no music, the girls
35:51start crawling around on the floor and, like,
35:53punching themselves in the face.
35:55And I thought, well, OK, at least you're
35:56being the best that you can be.
35:58(SPOKEN WORD) But my feet were hard on the ground.
36:03At that moment, color splashed into my black and white life.
36:07Standing, the wind in my face, I lost myself.
36:11And just for a minute, it only had to do with me.
36:16As my kite rose higher into that impossible blue,
36:21I thought about how we never flew kites together.
36:27[CHEERING]
36:32ABBY: The group number went well.
36:33Paige and Nicaya both did an OK job.
36:36Who was better?
36:37I don't know.
36:38Neither one of them really pulled my eye.
36:40But today, that was a good thing.
36:44[MUSIC PLAYING]
36:45[APPLAUSE]
36:48ANNOUNCER: We're gonna get started with our award
36:50ceremony.
36:52We have the top three Mini Oscar Solos.
36:56Starting in at third place, from Abby Lee Dance Company,
36:59act number 51, "Hollywood."
37:01[APPLAUSE]
37:03MELISSA: Mackenzie came in third.
37:05I was actually surprised.
37:06But a little girl did lyrical.
37:08Typically, that does better than an acro dance.
37:11ANNOUNCER: Next up is your high-scoring Junior Tony Solo.
37:15We're gonna start in 10th place, from Abby Lee Dance Company,
37:18number 37, "'20s Scat."
37:20[APPLAUSE]
37:24HOLLY: The idea of Nia placing in the top 10 with this number,
37:27she might as well have been doing Shakespeare on stage.
37:29That's the caliber of the maturity of this piece.
37:33Moving along to fifth place, in the genre of contemporary,
37:36from Abby Lee Dance Company, act number 22, "Glitz and glamour."
37:41[APPLAUSE]
37:45ABBY: I'm disappointed-- Nia 10th and Chloe fifth?
37:50They needed to be better.
37:51They needed to be stronger.
37:5310th and 5th are not going to cut it at nationals.
37:56ANNOUNCER: Moving along to our top Junior Oscar Small Groups--
37:59in second place-- this is in the genre of lyrical--
38:03act number 72, "Believe."
38:06[CHEERING]
38:08And drumroll please for your top scoring Junior Oscar Small
38:12Group.
38:13Your first place winner is in the genre of contemporary.
38:17And from Abby Lee Dance Company, act number 70--
38:21[APPLAUSE]---- "I See the Kite Flying."
38:25When it was all said and done, the group routine--
38:28and we all know the group comes first--
38:30was the overall high-scoring winners
38:33in the entire competition.
38:34The Abby Lee Dance Company is going
38:37to leave California victorious.
38:39ANNOUNCER: And who choreographed this routine?
38:41Miss Abby Lee.
38:44ANNOUNCER: Let's give a round of applause for our top 3 Junior
38:44[APPLAUSE]
38:46Oscar Small Groups.
38:49[CHEERING]
38:50Girls!
38:52Congratulations.
38:53High five.
38:53Congratulations for you.
38:55ABBY: Yay, congratulations, Chloe, for making the top five.
38:59Congratulations, Nia, for making the top 10.
39:02Thank you.
39:03Nicaya, you and your mom are being pretty quiet.
39:06You had a lot to say on the microphone.
39:10KAYA: What do you mean?
39:13ABBY: This goes to the rest of you.
39:14You're gonna let the new girl walk in and get the microphone
39:18and get to speak?
39:19Don't let the new kid come in and push you out of the way.
39:22You did the same thing with Paige today.
39:23You're threatening to replace her with somebody else.
39:26- Why y'all keep saying replace? - Why does she need to do that?
39:28We're not coming to replace nobody.
39:29She just wants to be part of the team.
39:30I'm not talking to you. Thank you.
39:31But when you refer to me or my child,
39:33then it puts me in the conversation.
39:34KELLY: I'm not talking to you. What did you say, Abby.
39:35KAYA: You can keep looking over here
39:36I'm sorry.
39:37and you keep talking to me. - Somebody was talking.
39:37Kaya was talking.
39:38I don't want to even use your name.
39:40That's why I keep saying her.
39:41I got a name I want to call you, too, not your own,
39:43but I'm trying to be respectful.
39:45You just jumped down on me like I'm trying to invade this team
39:49and do something.
39:50And it's no different from what all of you are doing.
39:51As a sister, I would think you would respect that,
39:54because there ain't a lot of chances for Black women
39:56out here nowadays.
39:57I would think that you would have my back.
39:58Do not-- do not take my ethnicity and make me a poster
40:02child for whatever.
40:03I choose to speak when I, Holly Hatcher-Frazier, Dr. Holly
40:07to everyone in this room, has something to say.
40:10KAYA: I don't know how you work with these parents.
40:12You called every one of us liars, haters.
40:15Hater-- yeah, you are some-- you're some haters.
40:17- That's a name. - I call it like I see it.
40:19It's the truth, y'all.
40:20Or liars, you're liars, especially you.
40:22Oh, yeah, OK.
40:23KAYA: You are phony as hell.
40:25So are you.
40:26I'm not--
40:27KAYA: From what I see, you're fake.
40:28CHRISTI: You know what? I'm not phony at all.
40:29Who I am is exactly who I come across as.
40:32Yeah, a bitch, that's what you are.
40:33And I know you own it.
40:36You don't know a thing, bitch.
40:39I be that bitch.
40:41CHRISTI: Don't let the door hit your [BLEEP] on the way
40:41I own it.
40:43You want to watch your mouth because I ain't
40:43out then.
40:45the rest of these dance mamas. I'm not a doctor like Holly do.
40:47I'm from the hood.
40:49Believe that.
40:50JILL: Abby, are you gonna let this happen?
40:52I can't-- KAYA: You're bitter!
40:53I don't use foul language.
40:54You're darn right we're bitter.
40:55I don't know how you work with these parents.

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