MAN: Five dancers left.
If you're not feeling the pressure, something's wrong.
For today's challenge, the skill is flexibility.
Do you have an open mind?
Do you welcome new things, new languages,
new foods, new choreography?
We want to see what you bring to the table,
and the best way for me to do that is to have each one of you
perform a solo at this week's stage show.
TEACHER: Pulling 1, 2, and a ha, ha.
Chaines, jump.
KRIS: Brianna is very flexible.
She can hit a backbend and hold it,
and you see her abs just go--
[CRUNCHING SOUND]
TEACHER: All go.
JORDYN: I don't have the most flexible back,
and I'm pretty confident with the mind flexibility
and just leg flexibility.
KRISTIE: Asia's falling behind in the choreography,
and it just drives me crazy.
It drives me crazy.
How are you doing on that timing?
The teacher is always having to stop and show Asia.
The dancers get a little frustrated at times
during the group challenges that she doesn't
pick up choreography fast.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ABBY: Nice.
Great energy.
Nice.
You better work on the left side.
However, you have flexibility in your legs as well as your back.
The group dance challenge winner is--
Brianna.
Great work.
Great flexibility in your legs as well as your back.
Brianna, you get to choose your style,
your geographical influence.
ABBY: Of either Asian, French, Latin,
Indian, or African dance.
The decision is African.
Remember, everyone earned a spot here.
But now, we're down to the top five.
We need to see the full range of your capabilities.
MOM: Cheers.
Cheers.
We decide we're going to have a cocktail
and just skip school, ditch rehearsal.
We're out of there.
We needed a change of scenery.
I'm dealing with Asia crying.
MOM: Why?
She heard Madison in the dressing room
say, why is Hadley gone?
It should be Asia.
Well, Madison is looking at it as a dance perspective.
Children learn from what they've heard.
The actions of the girls now, I think,
are the actions of the parents.
A lot of the parents are expressing their concern,
you know, as to why Asia is still in this competition.
She's still in this competition because she's
a damn good dancer.
They all think that Asia should have went home.
- No, I did not say-- - Sh!
- No. - Because--
- Don't "sh" me. - You weren't talking.
You're trying to throw us under the bus.
What did I say about Asia?
Do I think she should have gone home before Hadley?
Probably, because of technical.
I'll say it to her face.
I have no problem with that. - So what?
You're saying, technically, she is not good?
MOM: She is not--
You know what?
Her child can straighten her legs and point her feet.
You know what? - But Hadley can?
No.
She didn't, did she?
KRISTIE: So I just stayed quiet, and I
think the other moms are wrong.
Asia is here for a reason.
I don't feel threatened at all.
We just want to prove all the haters wrong
and laugh in their face when she's standing here
the next day after elimination.
EMCEE: Welcome to Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition.
Please welcome Asia.
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC - ASHLEY JANA, "C'EST LA VIE"]
(SINGING) My baby.
Isn't it strange how I'm changing.
But I'm trying to be strong, an independent girl, a survivor
who glides forward, who wins all the wretched battles
of the world.
Better to be loved than never at all, all, all.
I wish you never knew me.
I wish I never loved you.
I wish you never loved me.
Got to move on from everything I love about you, baby.
Got to stay strong.
I know it won't be easy.
C'est la vie.
[APPLAUSE, CHEERS]
Nice job, Asia.
Asia?
Yes?
Flexibility-wise, great.
But when that right leg goes up, the hip stays down.
OK.
ABBY: And what about the left leg?
It's getting there.
This is your eighth show.
ASIA: Yes.
I think it needs to be there.
In the very ending pose, were your feet tickled?
Yes.
ABBY: You should have fixed that.
- Bad feet. - That's what Abby said?
Yes.
Your problem is you keep making the same old mistakes,
and they keep letting you slide.
That's the problem.
The reason that we are letting you slide
is because you're amazing!
That's why!
So let's hear it for Asia!
You can go join your mom, head down to the green room.
We'll see you back out here in a bit.
Good job!
KRISTIE: So Abby makes her critiques.
Asia takes that to heart, and I know she's torn up inside.
This might be our night that we go home.
[SOBBING]
MOM: Technically, you're good, OK?
We got to kill.
Literally.
Now, with a routine influenced by the graceful style
of Chinese martial arts, this is Jordyn.
JUDGE: Love it!
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[APPLAUSE, CHEERS]
Give it up for Jordyn!
All righty.
I loved the style.
I loved the choreography.
I get it.
But you did some things that showed a lack of flexibility.
When you did the very first right leg extension
with the sword to hold your leg there,
you showed us that you weren't very flexible.
So you really nailed, you know, 98% of it.
But the 2% was so not OK that--
so knowing that it--
One move.
JUDGE: Yeah, one move.
ABBY: Yeah, but I think when you get to flex
and you get to be sharp and you get to be tough, you nail it.
JUDGE: Yes.
I'm talking about her lines.
And she doesn't have to do an arabesque, and she
didn't have to do a penché.
That's when she loses it.
And that's what you're not seeing in this type of number.
JUDGE: But great job tonight.
Thank you for stepping up.
The bomb.
We're going to do a flexibility
test right here on the stage.
Let's start facing stage right.
We're going to slide to a right split.
Don't touch the floor.
Make sure your arms are in second.
And can we get that leg right down on the floor?
Pull it. Pull it.
Pull it.
ABBY: Right to the floor.
KRISTIE: I know that she's going to fight to stay here, even
if she has to pull her leg off.
Paul, baby.
Pull.
ABBY: Push up to a back bend.
Nice and strong.
Push up.
Walk your hands to your feet.
Get as close as you can.
MOM: Jordyn's on stage, and I notice her face change.
And she's like-- and she turns back to her mom and goes,
I think I pulled a muscle.
There's things, obvious things,
that need fixed on both girls.
With that said, Jordyn, today is not your day.
Congratulations, Asia.
You will be here for another week.
Thank you so much.
[APPLAUSE]
Break a leg, babe.
I'm going to go straight to ballet class,
straight to technique class, straight to yoga probably, too.
MOM: This has been such an amazing time of growth
for both of us that we're going to walk
out of here better people.
She'll continue to grow as a dancer
and do amazing things because we're not done.