drdance Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 All sky viewers - The first season of Dance Moms (probably the best!) is now on Sky TV on Bio channel (156). Its addictive viewing, although for all the wrong reasons! Please note that a lot of it is scripted or staged by Lifetime (the production company) It's now on Season 3 in the USA and my friends share it with me using online storage and on tonight's episode in the USA dance teacher colleagues from RGDANCE in Australia visit and share some of their tips for success on the show! Very excited to watch it as soon as I get hold of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletgirlsplease Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Thanks for the heads up! Set my sky box then realised we don't get that channel! Boo!! ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Ok thus has surprised me a lot I expected Abby Lee to be awful. So far she isn't that bad if you see it in the context of a comp class not a normal class. I've certainly been that strict with my own daughter (but not other people's mind). On the while the mothers are terrible except for Nia's mum. And socks on bare floor are banned in all our classes too even drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celb Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 just wait you haven't seen anything yet !- it's called Dance Moms for a reason! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitschqueen_1 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I'm like you balletgirlsplease, been looking forward to this all day, only to find our package doesn't include bio! :-(((( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I feel a tiny bit of sympathy with the mums as my hair skills are terrible. I wouldn't get drunk and brandish curling tongues around kids though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I've just switched on but it says dancing moms but its a bunch of women sketching a fat man? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 That was a thing in the ads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Oh missed it then as I switche off ha ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 It's still on. There are two episodes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 My husband will kill me if I switch it back on ha ha. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletmum20 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 It's on next week x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy days Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 we recorded it and my two girls are watching it now. they both said please mum dont turn into one of them mums. Not a chance. So glad we dont do comps. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophika9899 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Watched it yesterday. It was so funny! But I did think Abby Lee was pretty awful. Wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of her. Ha ha Tulip I saw those people sketching the fat man - was very confused. Looking forward to the next episode. anyone know when it is? Same time next Tuesday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomuchtallent Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 You can watch some of the episodes on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) Just been and watched some of it on YouTube. Definitley wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of the Teacher and I was a bit unsure of some of the moms, not quite sure from the one episode I saw that I would want to be dealing with them. Everyone I've met along our road has been lovely, teachers, moms and the dancers alike. Edited March 20, 2013 by porthesia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomuchtallent Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Sorry but the teacher and the moms are crazy!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 toomuchtalent, I didn't want to say it as I've only seen one episode, but as you've said it, then from what I've seen, yep have to agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Beelam Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Oh dear, my new guilty pleasure is a 10 minute YouTube dose of dance moms I don't have time to watch this rubbish but it's strangely addictive and I need to know who makes it to the top of the triangle next....hideous! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Strewth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletgirlsplease Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 we recorded it and my two girls are watching it now. they both said please mum dont turn into one of them mums. Not a chance. So glad we dont do comps. We do comps but are so not like this! Not have we ever come across very competitive mums at comps! Comps can be very enjoyable and a great learning experience for kids and mums if you don't take it too seriously! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomuchtallent Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Where I live there is a very big international community unfortunately there are teachers and mums the same, not just dance but everything!!!and the children are all in competition with eachother even though they are friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 It sounds like where I live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primrose Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I have just watched a tiny clip from episode 3, I just cant believe what I am watching. These kids are scared of the teacher. I cant see any of them enjoying what they are doing and the parents are using the children to fulfil their own dreams. I understand its very scripted but from the tiny amount I have seen I am in shock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Me too, Primrose. What gets me are all those acrobatic moves on hard floors - what those poor kids are doing to their backs and joints is rather worrying... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitschqueen_1 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Aaaaagh!! Stop teasing those of us that can't watch it, hehe. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I had a look on youtube - we haven't got Sky either 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loulabelle Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Oh dear! Once I started watching (on You Tube) I couldn't stop Was up until 1am! Sweet children, horrible teacher and nightmare mothers! Thankfully we NEVER come across any of this sort of behaviour at the comps DD enters! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdance Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 What worries me is that there ARE other teachers like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomuchtallent Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I must say that we did go to a dance school once and the owner who was not the ballet teacher was like this.The children were so scared of her.One day they were rehearsing for the show when she stormed in and started screaming a one girl and told her she was rubbish in front of everybody, the poor girl was in tears.We left because of her behavior but we had to leave the best ballet teacher behind.Funny though,the ballet teacher left soon after and we are back with her at a new school. Another ballet teacher we had for a short while told my dd to only eat a apple for dinner!and told the rest not to eat at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddsballetmum Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 This is carsh crash tv. You don't want to watch but you just can't help it. I think the moms are appalling and so unsupportive of each other, but Abbey Lee is worse! I wouldn't care how good a results she got, I wouldn't let her train my daughter! Got to say though it is a wonderful wind down after a busy day on a Tuesday evening. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletgirlsplease Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Just watched an episode on you tube. I have never seen such awful treatment of children by their own mothers and their teacher. Parents criticising other mothers and children infront of their kids. It is car crash though! You do want to watch more but I can't quite believe what I'm seeing! It's almost child abuse!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdance Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 Do remember a lot of it is a) staged and edited by the producers to look a certain way! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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