We have a new member.
This young lady is Maesi, and her mom's name is Jaime.
I'm going to let you go ahead and introduce yourselves.
My name is Maesi Caes and I'm 11
years old from Altoona, Iowa.
I am Jaime Caes, and I am a licensed funeral director
and embalmer.
She can't hang out at funeral homes
the rest of life doing pirouettes,
so we're here in LA to train with you.
She has got the whole package.
She's flexible.
She does tumbling, she can do hip hop, she can do lyrical.
Anything you throw at her, she can do.
All right, Maesi.
I want you to go change and throw this on, honey.
All right?
I am building one super ALDC team, that team that nobody's
going to beat.
And I always look at Kalani as the oldest member
of the group and Lilliana as, potentially, the youngest
member of the group.
I've never really looked at it from the middle out,
and that's what I should be doing, because that's the core.
This is going to put the pressure on that kid.
This week we're attending Fierce National Talent Competition
in Agora Hills, California.
I came up with two trios.
Our first trio will be Lilliana, Elliana, and Maesi.
Your trio is titled, "Birds Whisper."
Maesi, you will take the lead.
Well, why would she take the lead if she
just arrived an hour ago?
Because your kid cried.
What about Lily, though?
You've been with her for a few weeks, and if she hasn't
asserted herself already--
Maesi knows that's why she's here.
She can take over.
Come on, girls.
[music playing]
The second trio is Lilliana, Elliana, and Maesi.
This is important.
The two little ones are really little.
They're teeny-tiny.
They're this big.
So when they stand next to Brynn, there's a huge gap.
I thought that a kid like Maesi, her age, her height,
would bridge the gap.
But my question is, will she be able to hang with the rest
of these kids, though?
Does she have what it takes to be a star?
Ah!
Stop.
Yo, funeral director, come here.
She wants me?
This ought to be great.
Run.
Come hither.
Do you see your kid's sickled foot?
Sitting right in front of the judges with that left foot.
If she's got something wrong, then you correct it,
and then she'll get it fixed.
If she fails--
[choking sounds]
All right. - OK.
I wouldn't do that in your line of work.
- No. - Not funny.
- No. - All right, go.
OK.
Maesi's the lead, she's in the middle,
and she's got sickled feet.
Then maybe she shouldn't be the lead.
Sounded like she had a technical deficiency.
Yes, with her foot.
She had a little sickled foot in there,
and so she just wanted to show me that there's a sickled foot.
A little sickled feet?
That's not little for Abby.
It sounds like you're a little intimidated
that Maesi was brought in.
Is that--
No.
Ultimately there's a lot of pressure on her,
and the technical aspect is already being questioned.
Jaime, so thankful that you're here, because Stacy and Yolanda
have been so nice to us this week, because I think they
have someone else new to target.
Jaime is thoroughly being accepted
by all the Junior Elite moms.
You guys were brutal to me when I came in, but all of a sudden
this woman walks in, and you're like,
yes, come on in with open arms.
I think it's ridiculous.
Jaime, just from what I've seen so far,
is that what you want your 11-year-old to dance like?
As far as the choreography?
Yeah.
This is not a junior dance.
This is, like, age appropriate for their kids.
This is not age appropriate for yours.
Oh, really.
Wow.
I don't think that she's dancing down to our kids.
No, I'm not saying that.
That's the problem, is Yolanda that everything we say
is negative to her child.
It has nothing to do with that.
This is age appropriate for them.
Yolanda wants her daughter to act like she's 18
and dance like she's 18.
Don't try to--
It's like, she's nine!
Let her be nine, Yolanda!
Don't try to think that you know
what I want for my daughter.
I think I know more than you think I know.
Now about my daughter.
I get what type of dance mom you are.
I get it.
You're a certain kind of dance mom, where you want Brynn
to be a leader, and not, necessarily,
she wants to be the leader.
Nope.
Nothing that kid does comes from me, unlike you with Elliana.
Which I think Elliana thinks you're going
to beat her if she doesn't win.
Oh, that's like crossing a line there.
I've told her all the time, I'm like,
honestly if you want to walk out those doors, I will follow you.
Yolanda is one of the craziest dance moms I have ever met.
And I think she sees that as long as Maesi is here,
Elliana is not going to be the star of the little kid team.
It's going to be a long week for Jaime.
She is probably going to miss hanging out with dead people,
because I think I would rather hang out with a dead person
than Yolanda.