- Hello beautiful humans.
Today I'm gonna be teaching
you the iconic solo
from Dance Moms.
You already know what it is, "Cry."
This is Maddie solo from
like way back in the day,
choreographed by Miss Abby Lee Miller
and awesome Gianna Martello.
The song is called "Cry,"
of course by Alexx Calise,
and every single person who has due credit
is in the video description.
So make sure to check them
out, show them some love.
I'm gonna be going step by
step for the choreography
for this, so it's a long one, buckle in.
All right dancers, so
we're gonna start in kind
of a mermaid position with
our right leg extended out
a little bit more, and
your head's gonna be down.
You're gonna come up
and do a nice head roll
to the right side.
Your arm comes up in rainbows,
and then it's going to
reverse up and through.
From there, initiate your
right leg shooting out.
You're gonna roll to face the back,
come up to your knees facing
the downstage right corner.
My left hand is here to push out
as I do little crawls
forward on the knees.
Then I place my hands down,
lay on my stomach as my left
leg comes up nice and tall.
From there, I roll over my
left shoulder to face the back,
come up on my knees here,
and I'm gonna frame my face
this way.
I'm gonna melt down with my elbows
and I'm gonna step up on my left foot,
and my right hand comes
underneath my chin.
All right dancers, from this position,
you're bringing your left
arm up into a pillar,
and then you're gonna step forward
with that left foot into a prep.
You're doing two pencil
turns into four seconds
into ejecting leap, and roll.
So from here we go, turn,
one, two, three, four, jump,
tack and roll to a z seat.
From a z seat here, your
left hand is gonna reach,
and you're gonna look up stage.
You're gonna come up, and
congri back, and release.
So from that congri,
you're gonna shoot out
into a right split and you're gonna reach
that left arm forward, place it down.
Reach your right arm forward,
lay on your stomach to kind
of roll through the center,
bend your left knee in,
roll over your left shoulder
and you're gonna stand
up into an Arabesque.
Or you can do so from
Arabesque you will left, right,
left towards Sauté.
Step, step, Sauté Arabesque.
All right from the Sauté
Arabesque we've landed,
you're going to go passe up,
melt back, face the front sway,
sway back right leg
comes to another passe,
clear with your hands pushing
out step right and over.
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When you turn around, you're
doing a drag on that left foot,
you're going step across.
You're doing Sauté right, Sauté left.
Then you're doing step passe saute.
Passe Sauté, step, step, big leap.
That's your big Sauté
show and your arms go up.
You're gonna body roll
up to an elevated step,
right step, left step, right.
You're gonna arch around
with straight arms.
Step right, come front with
your left hand to your ear.
Come up parallel, both hands to both ears.
Push to the left, pottering
right, pottering left.
Step right, step left, rush to the back
at the beginning of the wall.
One Saute new, you're
gonna step right, left,
into a double attitude
turn, left arm high.
After that double turn,
you're gonna run up
to the upstage right corner
and you're gonna do a clause tondu.
So that right foot is forward.
You're gonna brush up to kind
of a released rectory here.
Run, run, the jump that you're doing
has the friendly vent in
the back leg straight.
So I'm going here, run, run up.
Then I'm going Saute.
Step, this is a front aerial.
I don't know how to do an aerial.
So I'm gonna do a cartwheel
to just demo that there, and hold.
You're gonna swivel on that right leg,
your left leg extended,
land on the fourth and melt.
Turn over that right shoulder
to slide into that right split.
You're gonna bring the
right leg to your left,
lay on your back and hold.
Then we're gonna arch up here.
Hands to knees.
You're gonna just turn
yourself with your feet
and face the downstage right diagonal.
From here, you're gonna push back
into a split roll and over.
From here you come up to your knees,
that left leg is gonna extend out.
You're gonna put your
hands over to the right
as we look left, step
up on that left foot.
Right leg is ready to go passing
over step right, step left.
You're doing a fan over to
the right side, touch it back.
You're facing the
downstage right diagonal,
and you're going into a bomber here.
Bomber and down.
You're turning over your left
shoulder to face the back
and you're pushing up, run, run, run,
you're going drag on
your left, cross step.
So to Arabesque, turn out of it,
lotion in, side aerial, Sauté Arabesque.
From that Sauté Arabesque,
your gonna turn out of it
to the lotion in calypso.
Roll to your knees, palms
down, press up over your toes.
Lower, to face stage left,
come up on that right foot.
You're gonna reach that
arm out and go left, right,
left, right, surprise leap,
turn out with it, right, left.
From here, I'm standing on my left foot
and releasing my right.
Step, step, glee soft,
center, glee soft, center.
Turn out of it, face the front, push.
From that reach over you sway to the left.
You're gonna walk over your right shoulder
and face the back.
Right, left, right, left,
you're going PK, double PK.
Another set, assume new,
assume new, step, prep.
All right, so we're
doing three aisle cones
into a double pillar into a little swivel.
Seven and one, two, three, turn, turn,
swivel, tack and hold.
We did it.
Dancers, that was so awesome.
I got this idea from you guys.
I put a little poll on Instagram asking
what iconic dances you wanna learn
and "Cry" was unanimous.
So let me know what other ones you want me
to break the choreo down for.
Comment on this video.
Let me know how you like this.
Don't forget to check
everybody out, the dancers,
the choreographers, the musical artists.
The video description has it all.
And a big shout out to our
home studio fringe.dance.
Check their website out,
check them out on Instagram.
They're on Instagram @fringedancestudio
and happy dancing, dance mamas.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
