- Hello.
How are you?
We're here with love from Iowa.
- Good to see you. - Hello, hello.
Good.
Giona, this is Maesi.
Maesi, this is Gia.
Good to see you.
And this is--
I'm sorry, what's your name again?
- Jamie. - Jamie?
Yep.
I first met Maesi at a masterclass
that I taught, and out of all the kids
there on the dance floor, she really killed the hip hop
combination that Guy taught.
I thought, in my mind, she's a hip hop dancer.
Nothing more, nothing less.
But when she showed up at the audition,
I was thoroughly impressed with her.
She was incredible.
You tell me where you want Maesi, and she's your girl.
All right, get started.
Five, six, seven-- and then you have one of these,
like-- any old school, like, double point.
Like, pow, pow.
The Abby Lee Dance Company has had some amazing wins
with the hip hop routine, but we've
also had some major ordeals with the hip hop routine.
Now, Maesi is here.
She is a hip hop dancer.
She's going to sell this number, and baby, with her on the team,
I will have my great eight.
We can win doing anything, anywhere, anytime.
I hate that step.
I'm watching the performance, and
I'm watching everybody do it, and I'm
watching Maesi mark things.
And it looks lazy.
I'm a little worried.
Maesi, you're not impressing me.
Let's take what we have from the top.
SINGER: From bump and grind to move and shake,
and jump and slide.
If you've got soul, then jump inside.
Take your feet for a funky ride.
Tomorrow is competition day, and we're competing
for our fifth win in a row.
We need this dance to be a winning number.
Putting all the kids in this number is very risky.
These girls have never danced together.
You have minis that are this big,
and then you have Maesi, who's never done a dance in two days,
and the big kids.
It's going to be next to impossible
to win, with all the chaos that Abby continually
creates on this team.
[inaudible]!
That was [inaudible] when you're smiling!
Oh--
Oh-- [laughs]
That was horrible.
She totally did a belly flop.
She fell on her belly.
I think she's embarrassed.
As if the rest of the dance is not embarrassing?
It's her fault. I'm a little concerned by that.
I mean, is that going to be fixed?
Because if this is going to go on Maesi's shoulders,
then are we on the chopping block like Daviana?
I want my kid to be here.
I want her to be part of the team.
I want her to be in here, and do this,
and to have the opportunities, but it looks like--
I mean, if this is the way that the dance is
going to come across, that's--
we've got a lot of work to do.
All right.
Hello, everybody.
Let's show them the notorious ALDC!
All right!
Good luck, guys.
Don't suck.
Ladies and gentlemen, in junior advanced competition,
with a hip hop performance, please help me welcome entry
number 51, Notorious ALDC.
[applause]
[hip hop music]
RAPPER: People come from far and wide
to move and shake, and jump and slide.
If you've got soul, then jump inside.
Take your feet for a funky ride.
We don't care, we came to dance.
To make you sing and clap your hands.
The time has come, this is your chance.
If you're not ready, change your plans.
Who's the best?
Step up and see.
Notorious ALDC.
Who's the best?
Step up and see.
Notorious ALDC.
[applause]
She, like, started to do it, and then
she just started improv-ing.
I saw it.
Yeah, at the end.
Yeah.
Oh.
All right, everyone, let's pass out some awards.
Now for our groups--
in third place, number 51, Notorious ALDC.
Maesi definitely destroyed our winning streak.
She might as well have just hauled off and shot it.
Dead in the foot.
She was standing in front of girls
who are better than her, doing the choreography
that nobody gave her.
When you looked at the group on stage, all you could see
was her doing--
Lord knows what.