- Good morning. - Good morning.
Good morning.
This week, our theme is modernized fairy tales.
I'm very excited because this is, like, my week.
I'm a princess, duh.
Fairy tales are incredibly magical.
What the hell is this fairy tale crap?
Abby has been harder on Ally than anyone,
so Ally's life isn't a fairy tale.
This week is going to be the JoJo show.
I see we only have one brother.
You decided to man up and stay?
I need to know that you are fully committed.
After that stunt Travis pulled at the end of the competition,
he's going to have to work really
hard to be my prince charming.
Now, our skill today for the challenge is turns.
The winner of today's challenge will be rewarded
with a private lesson from me.
The challenge begins now.
[music playing]
I'm not 100% confident with myself
when we do turns because I am behind the game of everybody
else with ballet and technique, so I'm just
still trying to work on it.
Ally, poof!
Be gone.
You're watching every other dancer
out of the corner of your eye.
Abby waves her wand, and I know just
where I want her to put it.
Trinity, your right foot is completely
sickled in [inaudible].
Have you ever done a pirouette turned out?
Could have fooled me.
Poof, be gone.
Starting position.
Let's reverse it on the left, shall we?
Start from the top.
It's very difficult to switch.
But if it's a kid that has good training,
and they're great dancers, they can do it with ease.
Are you even hitting second?
McKaylee are you hitting second?
[inaudible]
You're cut.
Go!
It's very important for Travis to win
this challenge this morning.
I think if he does so, it really reinforces
his place in this competition.
ABBY: This is a private lesson with me.
Who needs it more?
ABBY: The winner is--
congratulations, Kalani.
I will see you later on for your private lesson.
Thank you.
[music playing]
ABBY: Hello.
How are you?
I think everything in Kalani's life comes easy to her
because she was born with the natural facility
to be a dancer.
Plié.
Butt under. Hip.
Close your ribs.
Freeze.
Look at your angle.
Do you see that?
That's what I want to see.
You need to overcompensate more than anybody else.
If Kalani wants to become a star, she has to work for it.
Those two other judges sent you home.
I brought you back.
There's no coming back again.
Richy and Rachelle are usually the ones that I feel like are
giving me hard corrections.
They're tough on you because you were given the package.
You have the face.
You have the body.
You have the natural flexibility.
Other people have to work for that.
So they want you to be that starving artist that struggles.
Are you crying?
[laughs]
I just don't want to go home.
You don't want to go home?
You have what it takes.
You have it inside of you, sweetheart.
You just got to share it with the world.
- OK. - OK?
All right. - Thank you.
Thank you.
[dramatic music]
Here we go again.
Kalani.
Oh, will you get that hairspray?
Where's makeup remover?
Yeah, I'm going to do the lashes first.
Gianna, do you want me to do your makeup, too?
- Yes. - OK.
It's not the turns.
It's not the technique.
It's the performance.
OK.
My only concern for this week is Ally's confidence
in the technique section of the dance,
so my advice is perform, perform, perform.
If she's got the audience drawn to her face
and drawn to her movement, no one will look at the feet.
Our next performance is a contemporary number
inspired by the many wicked stepmothers
found in fairy tales.
Please welcome Ally and Trinity to the stage.
[applause]
[music playing]
[applause]
Trinity, you drew me in.
But we need to elongate these muscles
and worry about the feet.
Ally, from the waist up, the hair,
the makeup, the costume, your presence
was right on the money.
However, from the waist down, what was going on?
Doing a [inaudible] kick, and that leg not being
nearly as high as it could go.
That is called technique.
Ballet should have been mandatory when you were three
or four or five years old.
You're here.
You're doing advanced work.
You need to have that foundation to back up that work.
Of course, we can't go back and make
up for years of ballet lost.
We can only go from where we are today.
You can't be in the story, and your feet don't look pointed,
or they're turned in.
- Good night. - Thank you.
Judges, thank you very much. Dancers, great job.
Head back to the room, and we'll see you out here soon.
I think Ally told the story tonight.
Maybe Trinity had more technique,
but people are still watching Ally's performance.
I don't believe Ally will be in the bottom three tonight.
I wish you would practice your turns like McKaylee.
I did. Oh, my gosh.
- Because I'm getting nervous. - I did so many times.
- Are you nervous? - No!
CINDY: I'm worried because McKaylee's is a great turner.
She could turn for days.
Gianna needs to step it up and be just as good as her.
All right.
Let's go.
Please make some noise for McKaylee and Gianna.
[applause]
[music playing]
(SINGING) I faced the danger of losing life.
Break down the door because I must survive, must survive,
must survive, must survive.
I'm alive.
[inaudible] to make it home.
I might be down, yeah, but not for long.
Break through illusion to make you fall.
I might be down, yeah, but not for long.
I'm alive.
[applause]
McKaylee, you're an excellent turner,
but it could have been better.
And I really honestly don't want to hear the big thunk on a jump
off the prop.
[thunk]
Gianna, I feel like I've watched you grow in the last few weeks,
but we need to work on your flexibility and your power.
This is not a vacation.
We're still sitting here, looking for more from you.
That was not my kid up there.
ABBY: Let's hear it for these two.
Thank you.
She's not dancing like she does at home.
Once upon a time, two young ladies had a dream.
And now, one of you is going home.
I think if you send Gianna home, it's a shame.
I don't think she's given 100%.
I feel like McKaylee and JoJo got solos.
My daughter's a star, and she hasn't shown it yet.
I feel like Gianna is trying to tell you something,
and you want to say something else.
Bad speech, Mom.
That's what she's trying to tell me.
You just killed me.
Yep.
The party started seven competitions ago.
If she hasn't danced yet, what are you waiting for?
You really are sending her up the river.
Ally, today is not your day.
Can we please have a round of applause for Ally?
[applause]
I'm just so thankful and grateful
for all the opportunities, and I just
want to say thank you so much.
There's obviously things that I would have chosen to do better,
but I tried.
And the technique needs to improve.
It wasn't enough in the end, but I'm proud.
I'm just thankful for your staying
through this process with me.
[inaudible].