Dance Mom Kelly Takes On Abby Via Twitter

Tuesday night around 8:45pm Eastern time, Kelly of the original Dance Moms took to Twitter to share some very candid thoughts on dance teacher Abby Lee Miller. Kelly, who is the mother of Dance Moms dancers Paige and Brooke, started on a multi-tweet rant surrounding Paige and Abby. Kelly alleges that Abby is jealous of read more »

Dance Moms Preview: The Original Dance Moms Returns In June

Though Dance Moms: Miami certainly has its fans, many are looking forward to the return of the original Dance Moms crew in June. Previews of Season 3 (or Season 2 continued – I have seen it referred to as both) have popped up online in the past week. Here are two of them: one from read more »

ESPN Host Shows Dance Competitions Some Love

ESPN personality and Sportscenter host Stuart Scott loves taking to Twitter to boast about his teenage daughters. He chats up about their track meets, soccer matches, time spent with him and lately, their dance competitions. Scott is showing his Twitter following of over 170,000 sports fans that dance competitions are a competition just as worthy read more »

Energy Dance Competition Defends Dance Moms Particpation

A staff member of Energy Dance Competition defended his or her competition’s inclusion in the most recent episode of Dance Moms on the company’s Facebook page. Energy hosted the dancers from Dance Moms and Dance Moms: Miami at their Highland, Michigan competition in early February. Part of the participation included having an administrator from the Joffrey Ballet read more »

What You’re Looking For: Kendall’s 2011 Duet “Big Noise”

While looking through what Google terms were leading people to this site, I noticed that a lot of people are looking for a duet done last year by Kendall from Dance Moms. “Big Noise” was a duet done while Kendall was with Studio 19 Dance Complex in Cranberry Township, PA. This duet won several awards read more »

Dance Moms Miami: Meet Dancers Jessi and Sammy

Dance Moms: Miami premieres on Lifetime on Tuesday, April 3rd at 10:30 p.m. Lifetime has released two videos so far to introduce viewers to some of the dancers involved in the Dance Moms spin-off. This preview features dancer Jessi Kennedy.   This preview features dancer Sammy Small. Here is the overall preview of the show read more »

Dance Moms: The Real Results From Energy National Dance Competition

On Tuesday evening’s episode of Dance Moms, the group traveled to the Energy National Dance Competition regional in Highland, Michigan. This competition took place on February 4th and 5th, 2012. Energy posted the overall results as a PDF on their website. A wrinkle to this competition (which wasn’t mentioned on the episode) was that Stars read more »

Routine of the Weekend: “Pump Up The Jam” From Performance Edge 2

I was only able to catch a brief part of the Jump Dance Convention livestream this weekend because I was busy watching college hockey (another thing I write about.) But I did catch the late Saturday night stream from Orlando, and one routine totally caught my eye. I wish I had been quick enough to read more »

Not Again! The Most Overused Competition Music

Now that spring competition season is in full swing, dancers’ weekends are being spent in auditoriums and hotels for hours on end. Part of watching competitions includes hearing some of the same songs over and over again, as studios design programs around some of the most popular songs of the past year. A quick scan read more »

Dance Moms Episode Banned By Lifetime

Gawker.com reported Friday that an episode from Dance Moms’ season two was pulled from the Lifetime schedule immediately after its first airing. Gawker’s Maureen O’Connor received confirmation from Lifetime networks that the episode “Topless Showgirls” (which originally aired March 7th) was pulled from its schedule and will not be aired on the network or any read more »