Dance Moms recaps from Channel Guide Magazine

Dance Moms Christmas Special recap: ’Twas the Fight Before Christmas

December 10, 2013 Lori Acken

Happy holidays, Dance Moms fans. It’s time for the first-ever Dance Moms Christmas Special. And, hence, the first-ever Dance Moms Christmas Special recap. Consider it my special holiday gift to you. We open with the girls placing a star on an artificial tree, plus JC, Executive Producer Superstar, sporting a shorter, darker hairdo, and a glammed-up Abby Lee. Abby says Christmas to her means two weeks off from the dance studio, the moms and all the complaining. A chance to de-stress, if you will. JC wants to plumb the Christmases of Abby’s youth for a spell, so there are photos […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 finale: McKaylee wins!

November 19, 2013 Lori Acken

When the party’s oooooooverrrrrr!! Yes, it’s finale night, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans, and I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted and ready for my happy ending. And since I very much like all of the dancers who are left in the battle, that’s a given, which is nice. We start with a little recap of the ladies and how they got there, complete with kiddie pictures and home video. Gianna says the money would mean she could afford to go to college in addition to the Joffrey. Cindy says Abby’s rough treatment of her daughter has only made Gianna […]

Dance Moms Cares and holiday special premiere Dec. 10 on Lifetime

November 13, 2013 Lori Acken

• UPDATE: The Dance Moms Cares special, previously scheduled for Dec. 10, will now air sometime in January 2014, per the show’s publicist. Abby Lee Miller fans, if you’re wondering how to tide yourself over between next Tuesday’s Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition Season 2 finale and the Jan. 1 Dance Moms Season 4 premiere, here’s your answer. On Dec. 10, Lifetime will present a double bill of Dance Moms goodness … er, badness … er, both … with the Dance Moms Holiday Special: ’Twas The Fight Before Christmas and the Dance Moms Cares special. The Dance Moms Holiday Special: ’Twas The Fight […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 episode 11: Malice in Wonderland

November 12, 2013 Lori Acken

With one week to go to the finale, we’ve reached the point of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition where the show should theoretically be about dance alone. Am I right? The also-rans have gone home. The remaining dancers are all deserving. The mothers are well-behaved … well, except for Cindy. But her big problem was JoJo and Jessalynn, and they’re back in Nebraska. So nothing but earnest, honest competition and great dancing, yes? No. Cindy just said she would do whatever needs to be done to win this thing. There will still be hysteria. • RELATED: Dance Moms Cares and Dance Moms […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 episode 10: Livin’ La Diva Loca

November 5, 2013 Lori Acken

Welcome back, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans. Was everyone still awash in the glow of Rachelle’s good deed, using her callback card to save Trinity, when we started this week’s competition with Abby and her pink feathery boa? I know I was. And it didn’t last but a minute. Abby reminds the dancers that there are no more callback cards left, so eliminations from here on out are final. Then she tells them that this week’s theme is Divas, and the skill is performance. Anybody care to guess who we hear from first? La la la la la la … […]

Dance Moms Season 4 premiere date announced

October 25, 2013 Lori Acken

The new season of Dance Moms will premiere Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, at 9pm ET/PT, with new episodes airing Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT. And as the series’ take-no-prisoners star Abby Lee Miller warned the ALDC moms and Dance Moms fans in the Season 3 reunion, she’s taking her show on the road for a nationwide casting tour in search of elite young dancers for her competition team for the new season. Here’s the rest of the Season 4 announcement straight from Lifetime: With the threat of new dancers coming into the company, the dance moms will stop at nothing to make […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition Season 2 episode 8 recap: Shootout at the AUDC corral

October 22, 2013 Lori Acken

Another day, another counter on my screener, so let me just apologize for that right off the cuff, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans. Also, let me thank all of you who engaged in such a spirited debate in the comments section of last week’s blog and for keeping it largely civil, since a large portion of the discussion was about a kid. A frequently obnoxious kid, to be sure. But a kid all the same. I think we can all accept she probably didn’t come out of the womb that way. And the editing room doesn’t help. But it’s also […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap: What happens with Vegas

September 24, 2013 Lori Acken

With nine dancers remaining to battle for the Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition crown, Abby announces that this week’s theme is Las Vegas and the skill is flexibility. Kalani says she’s super-duper flexible, so this should be a cakewalk. Er, dangle. Whatever. Abby reminds everyone that when she says flexibility, she means flexibility not only of the body, but of the mind. Then Shannon Beach, who has toured with Katy Perry and Justin Bieber and says that every one of the dancers is capable of having a career like hers, appears to school the dancers in the silks. Speaking of rock […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 Episode 3: Gods and Mortals and Monsters

September 18, 2013 Lori Acken

As we begin episode 3 of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, we get a look at two very different moms — Angela, who says that Richy saving Chloe from elimination last week was really God tapping her girl on the shoulder, and Melanie, who, with a gleam in her eye, says that there are a lot of moms there who don’t want her daughter Haley to succeed. I think they mostly don’t want Melanie the Mouth to succeed, but I guess they’re a package deal. Then Abby shows up to inform the rank and file that the theme this week is […]

Dance Moms Season 3 reunion recap: A change is gonna come

September 17, 2013 Lori Acken

So this is it, Dance Moms nation. The last words from the Pitt Crew until Season 4 arrives sometime after the new year. Will you miss me as much as I’ll miss you? Will you miss anyone over the age of 30 that has to do with this show, or are you happy to have the break? And are you ready to brave Hurricane Abby? Because here we go. We start out with JC, Executive Producer Superstar and Abby alone on the stage and a recap of the Leslie/Christi disaster last week in New Orleans. Abby says they succeeded in […]