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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
I saw the one where the Broadway scout came.
I kept wondering how a woman who looks like she's hiding Rosanne Barr (and John Goodman, too) under her clothes can be a dance instructor??? How can you teach if you can't demonstrate anything? Also, her just expecting the moms to take care of things (like decorating props) and then getting pissed when the moms haven't stopped their own lives to support their daughter's dancing hobby is ridiculous. She even got pissed because one woman refused to do the "Mom dance" (who does that anyway?) at the recital because she was graduating with her doctorate that day.
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I was thinking the same thing when I started watching it but after a few episodes now, it's apparent that it's her studio and she's a choreographer not an instructor. So the girls learn their dance techniques from the ballet, tap, and jazz instructors at the studio but they go to her for choreography and since the kids learn the actual terminology for the dance moves (and she's adamant about this), she just tells them what moves to do and they know to do them.
As a former child dancer myself (without the stage mom thing, it wasn't that serious) I can relate to the show but yeah I don't get why she wouldn't want to get fit and be able to demonstrate her choreography; she has to yell so much because she can't SHOW them the moves. I've seen choreographers and instructors that weren't stick figure thin but never like her. I'm guessing that at one time she was a fit dancer (not necessarily thin) since she said she was a child dancer and I think she said her mom was a dancer also and owned a studio.
Also I just wanted to mention that for the dance studio and the moms, this is not a hobby. They want the girls to get into schools like Juilliard and/or go on to broadway. They want them to be professional dancers. The question is do the girls want this? The little ones don't know yet but the lead dancer (can't think of her name) does I think; she's really good. The ones that end up being professionals have definitely been working at it since they were very young. I also think some of the moms want to live vicariously through their girls since they quit dance when they were young.
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