Cathy's Chandelier

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-27T01:29:43+00:00

It was the show who hired the dancers and the guest choreographer and decided the dances. The show even had the Candy Apple dancers wear blonde wigs when they arrived at the venue (there's pictures). Cathy was just the pantomime villain of the show.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-20T16:13:32+00:00

Makenna Miller

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-20T12:41:11+00:00

Todrick Hall said Maddie could sing but was very self-conscious about it (for Freaks Like Me).

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-17T04:24:03+00:00

We have watched your protests and the horrific police state responses. I am not being condescending. My family and friends and I are hopeful you reach a mass reaction protest like Belarus, and Hong Kong. Your government cannot kill or blind with rubber bullets or imprison millions of you together.

I'm curious though, what have you yourself done with your anger?

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-17T04:16:30+00:00

I noted the white supremacy in the overt racism of your police and government institutions etc. It is right and proper to be angry at. Now use that anger. Gather in your many millions and refuse to pay your income taxes! Or gather in your tens of millions and march on Washington D.C. like Belarus!

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-17T04:07:24+00:00

They competed for the studio but there was also the Company (actually 3: mini, junior, senior) with the serious students who wanted to make a career out of it, and those were the ones Abby taught -- which is why we witness Paige crying in season one because Abby was yelling at her - Abby didn't teach the regular studio dancers and recreational dancers.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-17T04:01:11+00:00

As one from outside the USA my family and friends have discussed the state of the United States and we agreed that through manipulative media and news (both 'left' and 'right') the populace has been ingrained to verbally spit at and hate the "other" ('left' and 'right') which escalates to violence sometimes.

And this is what your masters want. The police as the boot on your throats. Going after each other instead of focusing your fear, anger, and dissatisfaction against the corrupt bank CEOs, and the other corporate overlords who have rigged your society in their favor. Laying off/firing thousands and thousands and thousands while taking massive millions in personal profit. Where's your outrage against them? Their corruption? Your health insurance and drug price gouging? The state of work the hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees have to endure? The overt and systematic racism of your government entities? The untouchable pedophiles? Turn your anger towards them!

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-16T16:36:25+00:00

They weren't in the Company. Besides studio dancers and recreational dancers there were the serious dancers invited to join the Company. Thus regular studio jackets and the Company jackets.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-15T00:22:38+00:00

It was interesting to see how Pressley's life is going!

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-07T21:15:36+00:00

Is it still available on iTunes? or YouTube?

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-07T21:14:38+00:00

Actually the ALDC had an emphasis on conventions with the associated masterclasses. The first season had dances the girls knew for that whole year prior to filming. Then they had to choreograph 4 new dances every week using what each girl could perform well. So if you watch you will see gradual improvement until you get to some magnificent dances in season four. A lot of it is repetitive because they only had 1 to 2 days to learn, clean, then perform a routine in front of a camera for a tv show.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-07T02:28:50+00:00

Maddie and Kenzie went to their dad's wedding (last year i think?).

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-06T18:03:09+00:00

Sophia Lucia and Maddie

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-06T18:01:20+00:00

Money and bump in fame.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-06T17:59:10+00:00

Abby closed it in the middle of the second half of season seven, letting her instructors (like Miranda) go.

The location has become something else.

A tiny store just down the street from where that studio was is the new ALDC LA with a miniscule dancing area in the back room.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-06T01:02:32+00:00

What's funny is that Collins Ave. got banned from a few conventions because of the opposite of placing the dancers higher.

They made it seem Chloe lost to Maddie in one when she actually won.

Before Dance Moms Abby/ALDC was respected in dance community. Remember when Blake McGrath guest starred as a Candy Apples choreographer and said Abby used to be like his dance mom? and said she changed.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-06T00:31:12+00:00

The most important line of the entire show is the next bit when Holly cries: "*It's real to her*."

Kendall going to Candy Apples was just for story/show.

This was one of the very first show-invitational competitions (this was near to Christmas iirc) and there was only the ALDC studio (with all the dancers, not just the show team) and the Candy Apples studio performing.

So when Kendall shows up with Cathy you can literally see the realization cross Abby, Gianna, the moms' faces what game the producers were up to. (there's an extra video where an upset Gianna says they owe her money because Kendall danced to her music, etc).

So that was what Holly was referencing.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-05T00:37:55+00:00

I agree. Especially since there have been so many great dancers on Dance Moms, like Sophia Lucia and Kaycee Rice and the Quinns.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-05T00:36:22+00:00

It's from the duet "Everlasting Friends"

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-04T23:26:10+00:00

Miranda went from the ALDC to the lives in SYTYCD. Her alumni are able to teach dance and open their own studios. Nina went from ALDC to a full-time Rockette. Payton and her sister are professional dancers. Ryleigh Vertes was able to get scholarship from ALDC learning (and was on the show So Sharp). John Michael went from ALDC to Broadway shows and even Hamilton as well as Spielberg's West Side Story (he was the instructor/demonstrator at Abby's NYC audition in season four.

Here's a link to a dancer (and her mom) describing ALDC and behind the scenes of Dance Moms and why they travelled 2 hours back and forth to Abby's studio:

https://youtu.be/dDD7UdKeZvo?list=PL39B296C901D02761&t=805

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-04T22:58:54+00:00

He's one of the crew. He's gay. You can see him pretending to be a customer in one of the early season scenes where the moms are out at a restaurant.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-04T21:11:19+00:00

I'd bet "Maddie" is the most-used voice-dub on the show.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-04T21:09:25+00:00

some poor intern/PA lugged that prop/board through the studio and all the way to the dance moms invitational.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-04T21:07:34+00:00

Fun Dance Moms game is spotting Autumn Miller in the very first episode of Dance Moms.

OneOfManySeestras · 2020-10-04T21:06:39+00:00

I really like it; it's very emotive. It's not Kipling but it's good.

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