Day #5 January 13th- Dance Moms

Today I am going to write about one of my favorite shows, Dance Moms. Dance Moms is like the Peanut to my Butter. Every Tuesday night at 9:00 my DVR is set to record Dance Moms. For season one, it was on Wednesday nights but now they’re on Tuesdays.

For those of you that don’t watch or know anything about the show, Dance Moms is a reality TV show that follows the life of, Abby Lee Miller, seven girls, and their moms. The girls have dance five hours every night, Monday - Saturday. The girl’s names are Brooke, Paige, Madie, Mackenzie, Kendal, Nia, and Chloe, although competitors Chloe and Madie have to be my favorite. I think that I can relate to Brooke the most because we are both in 8th grade and we are both thirteen.

In season one there was a mom, Cathy, and her daughter, Vivian, who went to Abby’s studio for a short time. Cathy had her own studio but she wanted someone else to teach Vivian.  Because of the time commitment that Abby Lee Miller demanded of both the dancer and her mom, Cathy as she said “got off the train” and went back to her studio with her daughter. There was always a competitive relationship between Cathy and Abby.  Cathy’s studio is located in Ohio and Abby Lee Miller’s studio is in Pittsburgh. 

 Cathy was determined to compete against Abby, so she deliberately went to the same competition.  She put a duet and a solo in the competition to compete with Abby’s dancers. Low and Behold she did not win.  This was only the beginning of a rivalry that may last a lifetime.

So far my favorite episode of dance moms would have to be the second episode of season two, “Return of the Candy Apples”, (which is a play on Cathy’s studio, Candy Apples Dance Company). When the Abby Lee Dance Company went to Ohio to kick some Candy Apples butt. Cathy lied about her girl’s age and still lost to the Abby Lee Dance Company. No one said anything until one of Cathy’s students was doing a solo and a parent, not from the dance mom group, told the director that they have scene her at other competition in the     14-year-old age category. The director went to confront Cathy and ask her about the age of her student. Cathy ended up making her student get disqualified and made the director ask about Brookes age. But Brooke was in the right age group.

My favorite dance was “This is My Beauty”. This was a contemporary/lyrical dance. I really like the song and the meaning behind it. They used this dance at nationals (for only the best of the best) and won. After season one was over the girls were asked by Good Day LA to perform on one of their shows. Here is a video of the girls doing the dance.

        

As you can see this show is very complicated. You never know what’s coming next. These girls have received an opportunity of a lifetime. They were started in a music video, have won national titles, and as a group won nationals. Here is a picture of the girls, moms, and Abby. 

Unfortunatly Kendal and Jill (new cast members) were not in the group at this time. But here is a picture of Kendal and Jill.