[music playing]
Chloe is doing a beautiful contemporary piece entitled
"Soaring."
Will she soar or will she continue to spiral downwards
to be mediocre?
Fly through forth-- ooh, go back.
Fly through forth and to the [inaudible]..
Watching Chloe rehearse her solo,
it's apparent that she's not the same dancer she was,
and it's not because of her technique.
It's about her passion, and I want her to have that spunk
and that fire, but she doesn't.
That wasn't looking like you wanted to dance.
It's gotta come from you, Chloe. [music playing]
I can't keep giving you the same pep
talk over and over and over.
I can't make you wanna dance.
Whatever.
I guess I'm in a really tough situation right now because I
don't really think that Ms. Abby's expecting me to beat
Kamryn, and that's really hard to go into to a dance
competition, like, with all this pressure on you
and then everyone's working against you.
ANNOUNCER: This is number 29, "Soaring."
[music playing]
[cheering and applause]
Chloe was supposed to dance last year at nationals,
but her mother Christi ruined it for her.
She'll never know if she could have won or not,
but now is her chance.
This is her moment to go out there and earn this victory
and prove that she's still on top of her game.
[MUSIC - SARAH AUMENT, "SOARING OVER"]
(SINGING) Cold-hearted, so guarded.
I need a change right now.
call me names, play mean games.
I'm leaving that behind.
I like water with the sunrise.
My stars are spreading their light.
I'm soaring over.
I'm passing all the lines.
I'm soaring over, I'm soaring over.
And when I'm older, brush off that shoulder.
I took it over, I took it over.
All there was mine.
I like water with the sunrise.
My stars are spreading their light.
I'm soaring over.
I'm passing all the lines.
I'm soaring over, I'm soaring over.
And when I'm older, brush off that shoulder.
I took it over, I took it over.
All there was mine.
[cheering and applause]
[music playing]
I love to watch Chloe on stage.
She's a beautiful dancer.
She has great technique, and I think Chloe should be really
proud of herself because I think it would be so hard to hear
just negative things all the time
and go out there and rise to the occasion
and dance her heart out. [music playing]
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we actually
had a tie between fifth and sixth place.
Sixth place with a score of 278.4 points--
fifth place had that same score of 278.4,
but a higher technique score--
so at this time, join me in congratulating
in sixth place, Ms. Kamryn--
[cheering and applause]
[inaudible] number 26, "This is the Start" from the Abby Lee
Dance Company.
In fifth place, join me in congratulating Ms. Chloe,
[inaudible] number 29, "Soaring" from the Abby Lee Dance
Company.
[cheering and applause]
[music playing]
I cannot believe that Chloe actually beat Kamryn again.
I-- I don't know how she pulled it off.
[music playing]
Abby didn't care if Kamryn won nationals.
She wanted Kamryn to beat Chloe, and she didn't, and Abby can't
stand to lose.
Those five kids in there put your fat name on the map.
No.
You were no one before these kids.
Why do you say that?
Because you think putting a couple of kids on Broadway
makes you someone.
Guess who made you a household name?
Them.
Take a hike.
She has more class in her little finger
at 13 than you have in that fake fat body at 45.
Chloe is finished!
[music playing]
Your kid's washed-up.
How dare you!
Do you know anything about that kid?
No!
[music playing]
Gotta draw the line.
Enough's enough.
How low of a human being can she be?
This isn't about dance.
This is about human decency and how
low can you go, and I don't think anybody's
lower than Abby.
[music playing]
You heard.
As a mom, I can't sit by and watch this woman destroy
my child anymore.
She can't steal her passion.
She can't steal her self-confidence.
My line's been crossed.
Dance isn't worth it.
Let's go, Chlo.
It's really sad that Chloe was part of the winning group
dance, and she had the highest scoring ALDC solo,
and this is how her national ends.
[music playing]
[sniffs] I still wanna dance.
I still wanna do this, but I don't
wanna do it with her anymore.
[sniffs]
My favorite part about dancing with the girls
is that even if we lost or won, we were always a team,
we always worked together, and we were just always there
for each other, and we know how it felt.