It’s the first, ever annual ALDC showcase, well at least the first shown on Dance Moms.
Usually the episodes start with pyramid, but this one started out at a coffee shop with Christi and Abby. If you’ve read my recap for the last episode you already know how I feel about the fight between Christi, Abby and Melissa. I thought Christi was completely out of line and the argument was, definitely not ok. However, what happened in this first scene is exactly why I love Christi. Even when she looses it, at the end of the day she realizes what she did was wrong and is ready to pay the consequences. Which was why she asked Abby out to coffee in order to apologize, but Abby wasn’t in a listening mood and just shoved a contract into Christi’s hands demanding that she signs it immediately. Of course Christi agrees, for Chloe’s sake. Something I noticed was that on Abby’s way out Mrs. Miller was walking out of the door as well. I only recognized her from future episodes and I couldn’t help but wonder why she was there.
At pyramid, Nia jumped up to the middle row, which I was very proud of her for. She certainly deserved it after improving most of her solo at the last competition. However, the main reason she was in the middle was because Chloe was on the bottom. Christi complained that Chloe’s being punished for her own actions at the last competition and this has been an on-going theme for every season, but the way I see it the pyramid is strictly for the show and the show is Dance Moms, meaning dancers and their moms. So, when Abby’s assigning the pyramid why shouldn’t the mother’s actions come into play? Just because the dancers’ faces are on the pyramid doesn’t mean the moms aren’t a part of it.
Abby announces that a Broadway casting director will be present at the showcase, which everyone seems very excited about. Her second big announcement is that the moms will be preforming a number, choreographed by Cathy, at the showcase. You just know this is going to be good.
While the girls are practicing their new group dance, Sugar Daddies, for the showcase the viewing room is full of tension. Christi finally breaks the silence and, not only apologizes to Melissa, but apologizes to every one of the moms stating that it wasn’t her finest moment as an adult, as a person or as a mother. I thought this was very responsible of her and I liked how she apologized to everyone, because even though she didn’t yell at them, they witnessed the actions that she wasn’t proud of. Melissa tried to drop the topic as soon as possible and just wanted to put it behind them. Melissa isn’t very good with confrontation, so when she is confronted she either tries to deflect or find some way to drop the subject.
At the first mom’s dance rehearsal Christi shows up late and Cathy is none to happy. Christi makes it very apparent that she has no desire to do this “mom dance” and it doesn’t help that Cathy is treating it as a real class. While Melissa and Kelly are goofing off and Christi is complaining about how she doesn’t want to do this Cathy is treating them like her 10-year-old girls at Candy Apples.
Since the mom’s were dancing in the studio it was only appropriate that the girls be in the viewing room. The quote of the day goes to Paige for saying, “Oh my god, my mom used to say that she was a good dancer. Things have changed.”
When everything returns back to normal and the girls are practicing their group number with these giant stick props Paige accidently bumps into Brooke, causing her to stick her prop up her nose. Obviously, she started to cry. I would too if a stick flew up my nose. After her mom checks on her and assures her that she’s find she resumes dancing, but she says later how she’d never get hit in the face by a pompom and all I could think was, “Maybe not, but you could easily fall off the top of a human pyramid during a football game.” (By the way that’s a true story. The girl turned out fine, but she hurt her ankle)
Christi and Kelly were put on flyer duty, by Abby, and were instructed to walk around downtown Pittsburg with a box of ALDC Showcase Flyers. They meet one man who just auditioned for a show called “Naked Boys Singing” and Christi thought it was a joke. That, or she was a little tipsy from the mommy-juice she was drinking a little while ago. Either way, they end up running out of flyers, turning their adventure into a success.
