This is not to say that the characters (and I say characters because reality on many reality shows is a flighty thing) mean to be abusive. No, the drama here has to be as oversized as these dancers are petite-each episode a searing study in discomforting verbal abuse. This is a channel that boasts made-for-TV movies like Lizzie Borden Took an Ax and the scripted series Devious Maids (promotional images of which feature a blood-soaked mop). And as good as these girls are at the craft, Lifetime requires more talon-to-the-jugular drama from its reality shows.
Why, if it wasn’t for that, Dance Moms would be about, well, dancing. We’re urged to roll our eyes at the mothers’ helicopter twirls. We’re supposed to be aghast at some of Abby Lee’s drill sergeant techniques. And perhaps the girls’ wary silence says more about this show than all the shouting and screaming and swearing done by their loving caretakers.ĭance Moms is designed to be a cringe-inducing disaster. We do hear them speak occasionally, but far less often than we hear from their histrionic mothers and Miss Abby herself.
#Dance moom skin#
Sometimes they quietly cry-mute tears trickling down their cheeks, sweeping away cake makeup and leaving channels of unrouged skin behind. They look on in horror as their mothers point fingers and fling bottles of water. They stand around and look uncomfortable as instructor Abby Lee Miller harangues them for a missed pirouette or a slipped step.
They leap and writhe and twist and twirl in practice and onstage. The kids here-the young dancers in the Abby Lee Dance Company-are seen a lot. It’s a saying Lifetime’s Dance Moms takes seriously even today. There’s an old saying that children should be seen, not heard.
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