[music playing]
CHRISTY: Hi.
How are you guys doing?
What are you doing here?
Oh, Sarah just has class, Abby.
She has class. - Oh, as a class demonstrator.
CHRISTY: Yeah.
I gotcha.
Sarah's doing really well.
Her turns are so much better.
Oh, really?
Oh.
I know you can't stand her mom, but--
Oh, I cannot stand her mother after she called me garbage.
Sarah looks so good in her privates.
Oh, she does?
So good.
With nationals a few weeks away,
I might have to use Sarah.
And I'm looking for the best girls in each age division.
Christy, get in here!
Oh, Lord.
JILL: I don't understand why Abby keeps inviting them back.
At this point, Abby deserves everything she gets.
Hi, Abby. ABBY: Hello.
How are you?
Good.
How about you? ABBY: That's the--
Oh. ABBY: That's--
Sorry.
--the last thing you're going to say.
Go over there and stand right there.
My next solo goes to Sarah.
You will be competing in the nine and under category.
Sarah, you will be doing a lyrical routine.
The name of the song is "On My Own."
It's a shame that your mother keeps you
from being independent.
CHRISTI: Last week, Sarah got kicked out.
She shouldn't be back.
And she certainly shouldn't be allowed to have a solo.
ABBY: Lay down.
Now you're going to drag yourself with your hands
like you can't walk.
And you're trying to get to that door.
Come on!
Act!
Sarah's doing a lyrical routine.
It's called "On My Own."
Sarah needs to grow up a little bit.
She needs to be a little independent.
She can't even get on a bus for a dance competition
without her mother.
[music playing]
CHRISTY: Today, we are going to Waterford, Michigan
at Energy Competition.
All right.
Well, this is our first time.
So I'm going to be up front, and you're
going to be in the back with the girls.
OK.
We can't switch seats.
CHRISTY: Well, we'll figure it out.
Sarah is a nine-year-old little girl scared to leave my side.
But she needs to prove to Abby that she
can gain her independence.
We're not going to do this, 'cause I'm going to put my feet
up, and you're going to stay where you're going to stay.
And that's going to be it.
So pick a seat.
You'd have learned that if you would have been on the bus
the last time.
CHRISTY: Go ahead.
ABBY: This is ridiculous.
No, you need to go back and be independent.
Go ahead.
Sarah, go back there with the girls, honey.
Quit acting like a baby.
Let's go.
[inaudible]
[inaudible] go.
No cry babies!
None!
I've had it with this bullcrap!
It's absurd that your kid is crying over a seat on the bus!
I train employable, independent dancers.
To get on the bus and sit in a seat,
you shouldn't need to hold your mommy's hand.
You shouldn't need your mommy at all.
She still has a lot of learning to do.
ANNOUNCER: And entry number seven, Sarah,
performing "On My Own."
[cheering and applause]
[music - "on my own"]
[non-english singing]
[applause]