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Once again, we start out at pyramid. Abby announces that she is going to be casting a whole new team, rather than one or two girls, to go up against her original team. She also informs Maddie that she will probably be on the new team, but Christi also reminded us that the team did a piece without Maddie, and still won ("Hear No Evil").
Now on to pyramid. The first person on the bottom row was Chloe for getting fourth place in the solo. Kendall and Nia were next for not being first. Next was Kenzie for not "shining like the Chrysler Building." Then, first on the middle row was Brooke, also for not shining or standing out. Then came Paige for having "the look" not the technique. And on top was Maddie.
Abby confirms they will be going to New York City and competing at Sheer Talent. She also tell Paige that she will have a can-can solo named, "Ooh La La." Brooke too has a acrobatic contemporary piece called, "Purple Reign." In addition to the solo, Paige will also be competing in a duet with Chloe entitled, "Wishbone." "Beautiful Revenge" is the name of the group dance, because they're all beautiful, and she needs revenge on NYC for losing the last time they were there.
The third and final open call will take place this week, and it is confirmed that Chloe, Christ, Paige, Brooke, and Kelly will be helping Abby with it. Christi asked what the other girls will be doing during the audition, and apparently they will all be competing at Nuvo Dance there in Pittsburgh. In addition to that, Kalani (from AUDC) will be going with them to perform a duet with Maddie.
From there, they start group rehearsal right away. Honestly, it seems like the group dances are just Maddie solos with six back up dancers doing uniform movements. Meanwhile, the moms are asking themselves what Abby is looking for.
In the middle of the rehearsal, Kalani and McKaylee come in to watch the rehearsal. I think it's funny, though, that McKaylee was the winner of the whole entire show, but it's Kalani getting the spot on the team, and all the attention with the girls.
After the break, the duet is rehearsing. Abby says that the duet is inspired by a wishbone because Paige and Chloe are together throughout the entire thing, they're best friends, until the wishbone breaks, and that's when it ends.
Brooke then comes in to rehearse her solo in her costume, and it's beautiful. As Kelly is telling about the solo, she says it's like the old Brooke is back, and I like it whenever Kelly or Abby says that because the old Brooke is what we all fell in love with.
Right after Brooke leaves, in comes Paige for her solo rehearsal. The music sounds phenomenal! Abby sounded quite pleased with the solo, but suggests pulling her from the group to concentrate on the solo, but nothing was definite.
We then go to the auditions. I thought it was sweet that everyone was chanting "Chloe" as they walked in. Abby came backstage and Christi was telling Abby to teach Chloe, Brooke, and Paige the combo so that they know what to demonstrate to the boys and girls waiting. Abby was confused as to why they wanted to know it, and also said that it was "embarrassing" that they were wearing her dancewear line. I want to know why she had a problem with it when Maddie and Mackenzie did the same thing when they helped at the other auditions. Luckily, Christi and Kelly had extra clothes for the girls.
The audition then commenced. While the other girls/boys were stretching, Chloe was crying backstage, and I felt so bad for her. As the girls ended their dances, Abby started eliminating and keeping girls and boys. She then kicked out one girl, and of course there's always that one mother that speaks up for her daughter. Abby told the mom that it was her feet and right shoulder, and the mother had some very rude things to say in return. She said that her daughter had better turns than Paige, no doubt, but made sure to say "no offense" to Paige. Abby looked at her in disbelief and brought the girl and Paige back out on to the floor to do the turn section. Abby counted off, and sure enough, the girl didn't do a single pirouette, but Paige nailed three or four al a secondes in to I believe a double pirouette and from there went directly in to a turning jete. Way to go Paige! It must have felt like she conquered the world. Abby then dismissed the mother and the girl together. Christi told the woman as she was leaving, "Abby always says, she can talk about her dancers but nobody else can." I felt moved for some reason by the whole scene.
Paige and Brooke got ready, and made their way to do their solos. Paige was up first. She started the piece off with a huge bang. I thought her facials were big, but usually in those styles the facials are gigantic, but they were still good. I thought her tricks were good and strong, and I especially loved the part where she did like three or four side aerials in a row. That part showed just how physically strong she is! I think overall, she did a fantastic job, I mean, I always love Paige solos because they're always cutesy, but not too "little girl" for her.
After her performance, Abby said, and I quote, "Paige never fails to disappoint me." I'm calling B.S. on Abby. I thought Paige did a wonderfully spectacular job considering this is like her, what, eighth solo in her entire life?
Now for Brooke. I thought Brooke's solo was good, but Kelly and Abby were right it is just like old Brooke; it was predictable, but that isn't Brooke's fault. It's Abby's. She asked Gia what happened with her arabesque turn in to a tinsica, that it was bad, that she can't learn anything new. Maybe if she actually took time outside of one week to teach her something, she could fully perfect it. Just maybe.
Chloe and Paige then went in to the dressing room to get ready for the duet, and Abby doesn't tell the moms, but she said that she will be entering Maddie and Kalani. Melissa asked Abby if she could enter the duet but not be judged, just as an exhibition. Abby said she would, but she wanted a winning duet, and Melissa said that "Wishbone" would win. Although I don't like Melissa much, she does try to help the girls not get hurt by Abby and her antics.
Melissa then had to tell the moms herself that the duet was being performed, and I felt bad that Melissa had to take on Abby's responsibilities. Christi was mad because she had already asked her if they were competing, and she said no, but Chloe also asked Maddie, and she also said no. That part, I don't feel bad for Melissa for. That's sneaky.
The duets then went backstage to perform. First up was "Two Sapphires." I thought it was great, however, it looked like a usual Chloe/Maddie duet. Like literally, no difference. I thought Maddie was also performing better than Kalani was. Kalani had hardly any facials or emotion. That's really all I had to say about that duet because it wasn't very special.
Now "Wishbone." I thought they both performed the way they should have. They both came out with sad, haunted faces, and it was lovely. I thought they were insync and really looked like they were having a falling out with eachother throughout the dance. It was stunning, both performance and choreography wise.
The girls went back in to the dressing room, and Melissa and Christi were mad at each other's kids because Christi said that Maddie lied to Chloe, and Melissa is saying that Maddie didn't lie. Melissa asked if she did lie, but Maddie said she didn't and that she was talking about the other competition, and that's where they had performed it. Christi then talked to Chloe about how you should know who you're friends are. I think it was then Chloe was said, "Well I guess we aren't friends anymore, and then Melissa said, "You aren't her friend," to Maddie, and then Maddie agreed with both of them saying, "Apparently not anymore." I felt bad for all of the girls. It's hard when two girls in the friend group is fighting.
Meanwhile, this is all happening between the girls, they still have a group to do together. That should be an interesting dynamic. But before that happens, Abby walks in with Kalani and her mother, Kira. Abby started comparing Brooke with Kalani, and Kelly was getting mad, saying, "Maybe you should just replace her." Jill then was asking if Kalani was going to be in the dance, and Abby practically, why not, Kelly said to replace her kids.
Kira was then speaking to Kelly, and Kelly wasn't having it, so she gave her children's costumes to Kira for Kalani. Abby then stood up and was finger pointing, and coming at her, acting like she was going to bite her. Kelly had had enough, and finally slapped Abby. Honestly, I've been waiting four seasons for something like this to happen. The other moms got the girls and Kelly out of there, so Abby could call the police (when she was on the phone, she called Kelly's hair cool and trendy um...). Before the police arrived, however, Kelly had already gotten her kids out, and drove to the airport. I did see Brooke and Paige crying. That's sad. A woman who they have looked up to their whole lives, somebody who they crave approval from, just insulted them, and their mother. That's gotta hurt all of them.
After that whole mess subsided, for the most part, the girls got everything else ready to go up to stage. They got out, and went up on stage. I thought that the emotion level was higher than usual, because they had just had a situation happen that they could pull more emotion from themselves. I thought it was a typical group dance, but it was on a whole different level, and I think it was because of the emotion on stage.
Now for awards. Paige got fifth place, and Kenzie had to go up and recieve it for her. Brooke got fourth place, and Kendall had to go up to recieve it. For the duets, Paige and Chloe got second, so Abby was wrong, they would have won if the other duet wasn't put in the competition, because the first place spot went to Kalani and Maddie. As for the group, they got first place as usual.
This has been a very emotional episode, no matter whose side you were on. I really hope you enjoyed the chapter!
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