Oh, Michelle told everybody to eff off in the dressing room
in front of our kids, mind you.
You told me you were going to kick
my ass in the dressing room.
You told me that--
We're not gonna talk like that in here.
You said eff off in front of--
No, that's not what happened!
That's actually exactly what happened.
And I started to say something, and I said,
you're lucky the kids are here.
I'm not doing this.
You know what?
I'm not.
Sarah, get your stuff.
Let's go.
Sorry, Abby.
I'm not doing this.
Are you going to say eff off again?
No.
I'm taking my daughter.
This has been a dream of mine for a really long time.
One week away from Nationals.
One week, and a dancer just walked out the door.
All right, this week is huge.
We're saying here in Pittsburgh to attend
Ignite Dance Competition, our last competition
before Nationals.
This is it.
We are doing a routine called Rising From The Ashes.
Will you go up in flames, or will you be
the overall high score winners?
Gianna and I have wanted to do this number,
Ashes, for a long time, and it's kind of my story.
First of all, when you go away on a little vacation for eight
months, you're dust to people.
And then, when you get sick and you're knocking on death's
door, there's the ashes.
So this is kind of me rising from the ashes.
It's a great time to do it, we're at the end of our season,
and the kids are finally dancing together as a group,
whether they have six members or seven members.
In your first leg, Lilly, when you kick it,
it's just not that impactful, is when you [inaudible]..
Right, like, it needs to stop for a second,
and then invert and come down.
Right.
You can still kick it.
Just try to freeze it for a moment.
OK.
OK, stop.
So after you kick it up and you hold it there,
you're giving me, like--
down.
Like a-- like--
like-- you're doing exactly what you think you're supposed
to do, instead of, like--
pulling it down, falling.
Like-- like, I need you to dance,
and not look like a mannequin.
What are the lyrics, Gianna?
What is it saying?
It's basically "Ring Around The Rosie."
Rings and roses, everybody's falling down.
I've got the posies.
The words start off after 16 counts.
OK, and then you go to that-- no, go to that corner.
Pressley, go to that corner.
And then you two are--
like, kind of make a circle.
OK.
Go ahead.
Just-- just improv when the music--
just-- just movement.
Just movement.
[music playing]
And-- come into the circle.
[music playing]
I just think, you know, traditionally--
I know you're trying to break away from what would be,
but I think when we do roses, roses, we all fall down,
don't we walk in a circle?
Don't we do-- is it-- what's the real thing?
Pockets full of posies.
We're not doing that.
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!
Right.
And whenever you guys do something
like that, like, funny, it breaks
my entire train of thought.
Like I told you in there.
And then, like, lean to your right
and throw your head around your shoulder.
And then go the other way.
Like, ha, fall.
Brady, use your feet.
Put your feet in second, everybody.
Make it bigger.
Make the circle bigger.
OK.
Now, you're inverting your left knee
and picking up your left heel, and you're putting
your hand on your shoulder.
Right.
Freeze.
Try it one at a time.
Just try this.
starting with Lilly, to Pressley.
5, 6, 7, 8.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5-- no.
Make it-- make it more of, like, a moan than a smack.
5, 6, 7, and go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Do it all together, guys.
Same time.
All together.
5, 6, 7, go.
Please don't touch the floor.
This is the third time I'm telling you.
Do not touch the floor.
[music playing]
Stand up.
No, we'll do it different.
Paris, when you come out, you're hidden
behind Brady the whole time.
You need to find that window, right away.
Roll up.
7, 8-- go.
[music playing]
How many counts are we falling for?
Down, 2, 3, 4.
Let's go.
Get to a leg, and then melt back down.
Catch.
And-- it's OK.
Just hold it.
There we go.
No, that's-- Brady, go that way.
I want you to move over, and go in the middle of them.
Try that, guys.
We're actually using ashes today.
I hope that's not, like, somebody's great-grandpa.
Oh.
Whoa, he just threw it--
Oh, god.
That went everywhere.
Did you see Brady throw it all in [inaudible] face?
This might be slippery.
This will be the second dance that we do in Pittsburgh
that we're going to be holding our breath
to see if our kids fall.
It's a risk again, like always.
Abby loves to take risks.
OK, all right.
One week before Nationals, there's no way you
guys are losing in Pittsburgh.
No way.
All right, listen-- you've had two wins.
You're going in for the third win in a row.
This story is very important.
It's like, people counted me out.
I was pretty much dead.
It's making a comeback with a vengeance.
If the dance wins, I rise from the ashes.
If the dance is a hot mess out there, it's a catastrophe.
So go out there to show the ashes, and be winners.
Let's go. Let's do this.
Come on.
Break some legs.
Be beautiful.
All righty.
This is Ashes.
[applause]
I just hope that everything goes smooth, nobody trips
on the ashes, and we're all on the right timing
together, because the past three weeks, we've been winning.
And so I hope that that stays the same.
[music playing]
SINGER: Ashes, ashes, we all--
ashes.
Rings and rosies, everybody's falling down.
I've got your posies, [inaudible]..
Ashes, ashes, we all go home.
And fire burning, rise with the flames.
Fire burning.
Rise with the flames.
Angels, devils look the same in colors gray.
Travel in shadows, sold my soul along the way.
Ashes, ashes, we all go home.
And fire burning, rise with the flames.
Fire burning, rise with the flames.
Fire burning.
[applause]
Hi, honey.
Hey, honey, I know--
I'm just going to stop you right now.
I just don't know if this is the time or place to discuss
something like this let's.
Just revisit this another time, OK?
All right.
I really don't want to talk about Sarah anymore.
I don't care.
Right now, I need to focus on the six kids in front of me,
because I have a lot riding on this.
I have to redeem myself, and my dancers here in Pittsburgh.
In first place--
Ashes, ALDC!
I don't think Miss Abby can be upset at all this week.
She wanted to tell her story, and she wanted to do that
in Pittsburgh, in her hometown.
They told her story, and we just won first overall for her.
I have a winning team again.
Woo-hoo!
But I want a national winning team.
The pressure is on.