And now the group. This week is a hip-hop routine.
The title is "Notorious ALDC."
All right?
You're dismissed, go.
So are you guys excited about a hip-hop routine?
We've had really good luck with hip-hop
and really bad luck with hip-hop.
It's like hit or miss.
And Abby expects her kids to win at any cost.
[Abby] Listen up.
This is my idea.
It's the beginning of hip-hop. It wasn't just a genre of dance.
It's a revolution
in American society. All right?
All right, get started.
We're just going to start with five, six, seven,
and then you have like--
Any old-school like, double point, like-- Pow pow!
[hip-hop music playing]
[Abby]
with a hip-hop routine.
But we've also had some major ordeals
with a hip-hop routine.
Now, Maesi is here,
she is a hip-hop dancer.
She's gonna sell this number.
And, baby, with her on the team I will have my Great Eight.
We can win doing anything, anywhere, anytime.
[Abby] Dancers!
That was not good with your smiling!
-Oh! -Oh!
-Oh! -[laughter]
That was horrible. She totally did a belly flop.
-Fell on her belly! -[laughter]
I think she's embarrassed.
As if the rest of the dancers are not embarrassed?
I'm a little concerned by that, 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, 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...
We got a lot of work to do.
I think Abby really put
a lot on Maesi's part as pressure this week
with the group routine, with the trio
and then also named leader of the trio.
It's a lot on an 11-year-old's shoulders.
She needs to step up her game to prove that
this is where she belongs to be a part of the ALDC
and really make this work.
They're gonna go out there and something is gonna be
notorious or epic or whatever.
I'm not seeing it. Anybody? Anybody? Buehler? Anybody?
It's a lot of pressure to pull off number five,
win number five.
We're gonna be known for notoriously losing in hip-hop.
I guess, I mean, we can kiss our winning streak goodbye.
[lively music playing]
[Abby] All right. Come on everybody!
Let's show them the "Notorious ALDC".
-Woo! -[applause]
[lively music playing]
[announcer]
with a hip-hop performance, please, help me welcome
entry number 51, "Notorious ALDC".
[hip-hop music playing]
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♪ North and south and east and west ♪
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She started to do it and then she just started improving.
Good.
Yeah, at the end.
Oh, yeah.
Ohh.
Wow.
Maesi, front and center, boom!
Forgets it, doesn't know the choreography.
And she is right there.
I can even sense Abby just swarming in her seat.
Because Abby knows exactly what just happened
with Maesi forgetting the piece.
I wouldn't want to be in your shoes, Jamie, if I were you.
Now, for our groups.
In third place...
[suspenseful music plays]
Number 51, Notorious ALDC.
[Abby]
She might as well 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.
This was a big loss for us, I don't know if that means
someone isn't going home.
It was entertaining, it was fun, it proved that
beautiful, lyrical,
contemporary dancers could get out there and do hip-hop.
So you were completely happy with it?
Ah, no, I wasn't completely happy with it.
Am I disappointed that I didn't win?
Yes, regardless.
For the majority of them, I'm proud of them.
What majority aren't you proud of?
Like, who's going to take the blame?
Is there someone to take the fall or what? I mean...
I want to see the kids.
[Jamie]
She owned up to it, she got right back on.
She didn't run off stage, she didn't cry.
[Jamie]
She's got big visions and big dreams.
But yet, Abby could crush her dreams in a heartbeat.
Like, it's scary.
-Yay! -Yes!
Congratulations on an outstanding...
performance.
I thought some of your
performances were over the top.
Maesi.
You messed up the hip-hop dance.
Right in front of everybody.
You forgot the steps
in front of people who have worked hard and long,
who I've worked hard and long with
to get them to this level.
We've worked too hard to let some kid,
who's nobody, come in here and screw that up.
She is not a nobody.
My plan is to come in here
and do what I think is right as a dance teacher.
And I know what's right is for you,
Maesi, to go home.
You are cut from this team.
She looks confident.
After the week that you put her through,
she got up there and looked confident.
And she's standing there and she is not boo-hooing at all.
That, to me, is remarkable.
She covered it up.
I didn't even hardly notice it at all.
But you're used to looking at dead people all day.
They don't do anything wrong.
But Abby, you've had other kids mess up that you kept.
Who messed up that I kept?
Elliana forgot her whole solo the first time she did a solo
and you kept her.
She did not forget her whole solo.
What are you talking about?
Yolanda, I'm not criticizing Elliana.
The first solo she had, she was first overall.
And actually she had a higher score than Brynn and Kalani.
That's a bunch of bull.
Why do you guys say all of this?
You're saying my child screwed up everything.
You're like, "She does this wrong, she does that wrong."
It was pointing out that people get treated differently.
[Yolanda]
because I can't win with these elite moms.
I came in here really wanting to feel welcomed.
I'm getting to the point where it's really frustrating.
I'm sick of being the center of everyone's negativity.
You don't like me, then fine.
Abby, honestly, at this point, give her Elliana's spot.
Why-- Why would you say that for?
-Why would you say that? -Why did you do that?
Yolanda, why on earth would you say that?
Yolanda! What just-- What?
Professional victim.
Did you really just do that to your kid?
Honestly, none of you guys can say anything nice.
Do you not ever hear? Do you not, like, see all of it?
She's crazy.
Get over here and console your daughter.
[Yolanda] No, I've consoled her a lot.
All right, pack your bags, Yolanda, you're out.
Don't make an impulsive decision.
Don't make an impulsive decision at the end of the day.
[Yolanda]
to the junior lead moms
hoping that people would just kind of take a step back
and be like, "Wow, you know, maybe we are actually
not being very nice to Yolanda and Elliana."
Nope. Nothing at all.
Well, that's messed up.
I don't want to go home, Mom.
-Okay. Let's get out of here. -I don't want to go.
Why are you doing this to me?
I want to stay.
I tried my very hardest.
You're right. You did.
Why are you giving up my spot?
I did perfectly fine.
It's hard for me.
Every day, those women in there, they insult me.
They tell me that I'm a sick woman because I'm defending you.
What was she honoring by doing that?
She was honoring her victim role...
is what she was honoring.
The martyr.
It's gonna be okay.
Okay? No matter what happens.
It's gonna be okay.