Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.
We have one of our most very special, amazing guests set for you today.
We are so excited about it.
I can't even talk.
I know.
Clearly.
There's going to be some history of things that we probably don't want to talk about and
admit are true.
Yeah.
But you're going to get some interesting insight on Carly and I from a third party that's not
either of us.
So it's going to be true.
Yeah.
It's no not no lie.
No cap.
Oh, see how I like to bring other podcasts together.
Oh, period.
She's she's telling me I'm not I need to say period.
Let me tell you this woman started the period way before it.
The period was a thing and it goes like this.
Really?
Yup.
Really?
I can't even go that low.
Ready?
Seriously, Carly.
Seriously.
And shut it down.
Shut it down immediately.
You can do this woman can do this with one word.
Let's get into it.
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly with us today.
We call her Miss Kristen.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
She's a real name and it's Kristen Hackney, but she will forever be Miss Kristen.
She is the OG of dance of teaching us dance of dance competitions, judging dance competitions.
Oh, yes.
Judging us.
She's telling us that's not true.
And my gosh, so many more.
She wears a million hats.
She might be one of the most generous and nicest people in the entire world and if you or by
you, I mean Carly and I have an issue, we go directly to Miss Kristen for help.
So she will forever be our number one call.
Yes.
Miss Kristen, what's up?
Hello, hello.
Oh, that was good.
That's a new one.
I like it.
It's very much with really.
Yeah, seriously.
I wanted to just keep it real the way I am.
And you do the high pitch Carly if you want.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We do what we want.
You're looking at me.
Okay, we'll look down to look away.
Hi guys.
That was so good.
Look at her.
That was so good.
Oh, God, I waited to do that.
It's just so good.
I practiced on the car ride over.
Yeah.
It was better than yours actually.
Yeah.
Because it was more natural.
Listen, everybody does it better than me.
It was more natural.
It's you.
You own that girl.
We call you Miss Kristen.
Yes.
Some people call you MK.
True, true, true.
I tend to not call you MK.
I don't know why.
I just call you Miss Kristen.
It's respect.
Yeah, respect, I guess.
I love the name MK though.
Yeah.
It's a term of endearment.
I love it.
Yeah.
And you don't mind when kids call you MK.
Well, not little kids.
Little kids don't know that.
You have to hit a certain plateau before you hit the MK.
Yeah.
It depends on the relationship I would think.
Well, in saying that, I mean, everybody respects Miss Kristen.
And I don't know.
I don't know how you, how do you make that happen?
Here's why she's asking this question because Carly thinks she has the persona of you when
she teaches and she, but she's just loud.
So then instead of having this respectful fear that we have of you, it's a respectful
fear.
Yeah.
They just, no, it's a nice, I mean, with you guys.
No, it's good.
Keep that.
No, it's a good, healthy.
It's like, you don't want to let your teacher down.
You don't want to do it wrong.
You definitely don't want you yelling and being disappointed or upset.
It's the respect of it.
Carly just, they don't like her.
No.
I don't think that's true.
Oh, Miss Kristen, that's nice.
I don't think that's true.
No, they do.
They do.
What's the secret?
Guys, I couldn't tell you.
I have done the same thing since I started teaching way back when I've been the same
then that I am now.
Maybe something with the eyes and the visuals.
I don't know.
Oh, the eyes and the eyebrow.
It's like, and you know what, Miss Kristen has never gotten loud.
She gets quiet.
Oh yeah.
You know that like, and you just don't want to get that from her ever.
I think I only got it like once or twice when I wouldn't go on the floor because I don't
do floor work.
But I did when I was younger because Miss Kristen told me I had to and I might have
given her a hard time one or two times where she gave me that like really.
I'm upset for you.
Why?
Because that's frightening.
Well, you've never gotten that.
We all know Victoria's never gotten that.
Let's do what she says.
Thank you, Victoria.
That's why I'm scared out of my mind.
I'll do it.
Well, even going backwards, Miss Kristen, we grew up with Miss Kristen teaching us dance.
That's how we met really.
Didn't and okay, you know, I love a good story that's wrong.
Okay.
Because this in my mind is how it happened.
You knew you met our mom years ago.
She didn't teach you this.
So this is how the story goes.
Okay.
Miss Carmella was actually my first dance teacher.
Okay.
Way back when at another local dance studio.
Okay.
And she only taught me my first year.
And then I came back together with Miss Carmella in my early 20s.
Okay.
And that's when you started teaching for my mom?
Yes.
Okay.
And then so we were when she opened her studio, right?
A couple of years after, maybe four or five years after.
Okay.
So yeah.
Yeah, we can have because the studio celebrated its 26th year and I think you're like 24 of
the 23.
23.
Yeah.
I'm going into my 24th.
Right.
Yeah.
And yeah, so Miss Kristen has grown up with us.
Yeah.
Truly.
She also teaches at many other dance studios and competition studios, which we all know
we are not a competition studio.
So we're going to get into that.
Yeah.
What do you think is one of the biggest differences between competition studios and our studio
that does not compete?
That's a tough question because it's really subjective to what you think and what you're
looking for.
Like, I think there's a lot of misconceptions about both to be quite honest.
You know what I mean?
Missed conceptions about them?
Yes.
About like what people who some people who go to a non-compete studio, what they think
of a competitive studio and vice versa.
That's true.
You know what I mean?
There's a lot of, you know, like any other profession, everybody likes to take it, you
know, to their thoughts, their opinions and blogs and, you know, whomever they want to
talk to and different thoughts play into a lot of things that people now do differently
now.
Like for instance, there are some people that run non-competitive studios that feel like
competitive studios just want to turn out technicians and, you know, you can hit six
turns, you're good for us and don't care a whole lot about artistry, which is completely
not true.
I think I have that misconception.
Like you believe that?
Yeah.
No, I don't believe it, but I think that maybe even when I was younger, that's what I thought.
Yeah.
I think that, so I think there are other people out there like, yeah.
And the flip side of that is that, you know, there are some competitive studios that feel
like non-competitive studios maybe aren't as, you know, serious in defining what they're
doing, right?
Like settling for maybe less than what somebody can achieve, which of course is totally incorrect
as well.
Yeah.
I remember being a kid and my friends going to competitive studios and them just thinking
that I was just doing it for fun.
Now a lot of kids that go to non-competitive studios are doing it for fun because they're
doing a million other things.
Sure.
I wanted to be a dancer.
So I was like super insulted, but because we, you know, you're kids, you just, you don't
have the actual facts about, you know, of course, of course.
But yeah, I agree with that.
People have the wrong idea about both.
And you know, the game has changed a little bit as years go on about, you know, getting
work as a professional dancer.
You know, they're remember now people see like dance moms and all the dance shows on
TV and they feel like I've got to replicate that because that's the only way I'm going
to be able to dance professionally versus you could grow up in a non-competitive studio
and make your way to Broadway.
Yeah.
Hello, Pat Joyce.
Do you know what I mean?
You know what I'm saying?
Who danced at a non-competitive dance studio?
Yes, he did.
So you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Well, there's a lot of different opinions.
People only know what they think they know.
True.
I'm going to say think they know and not what they actually know because dance moms, I don't
know at all.
I think I've seen an episode or two.
We weren't allowed to watch it actually.
We weren't allowed to watch it.
So what I do know of that show, I'm like, oh yeah, that's all competitive studios.
That's how it is.
And many people have that perception.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's also bad too because that's not what happens in a competitive dance studio.
In reality.
Which is not even right.
You know what I mean?
The show is not reality.
That's not what happens in reality.
And I think that because then I think of you and I'm like, well, Ms. Christen's not like
that.
Right.
It has to be a disconnect to know.
And I know a lot of other teachers that teach our competition studios and they're not like
that.
But it's what is filtered into our minds.
Well, I think also I'm going to bring it full circle here.
You know, Real Housewives of Jersey.
That's not what Jersey is like.
True.
Real Housewives of New York.
That's not really what New Yorkers are like.
So it's all, well, how do you feel about that, Victoria?
I hate everything you're saying.
But it is.
A reality show is not, it's not general.
It's literally for TV.
So Dance Moms is not every competition studio.
But we didn't know that when it first got popular and big.
And it's actually more about the Dance Moms.
That's what.
Then the dancing.
Yeah.
Then the show.
Yes.
It's about the crazy moms.
I mean, and there's crazy moms everywhere.
It doesn't just mean competition studios.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
They're crazy moms all over the place.
I'm one of them.
I'm sitting next to one.
You're lucky I said it first.
I'm like one of those things or let me make fun of myself first.
I can insult you.
Oh, no, you can.
You can.
Now, through all of the teaching that you've done, I'm not going to ask you how long you've
been teaching.
I've been teaching since 1947.
That is 1947.
I've been teaching since 15 and I've been dancing since three and it has never stopped
and I've never taken a lull.
You've never taken a break.
I've never taken a break.
I've never taken a lull.
I've rolled it right on through.
That is crazy.
Because I haven't danced.
I just danced for the first time in the recital this year.
I don't think I've danced.
We do dance fitness every day.
You know that.
Sure.
But I haven't danced where you don't repeat a count of eight in years.
I can't believe you never took a break.
No break.
That's where the respect comes into play.
I know.
Yeah.
We respect Ms. Kristen a whole heck of a lot, especially when we're in trouble and
we dial Ms. Kristen.
We're like, Ms. Kristen.
What do we do?
Help us.
We'll always answer the phone.
We'll call Karm and she's like, call Ms. Kristen.
Call Ms. Kristen.
I don't know what to do with Karmus Kristen.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's incredible.
So when did you start judging?
Us.
Never.
I have never judged you or anyone else ever.
Actually, she has never judged us.
I have expectations of you and of everyone.
So that's a different kind of thing.
For me, I care about the effort.
She's expectations of us.
That's a problem.
I do.
And you have surpassed many, many of them.
Oh, Ms. Kristen.
Cute.
But wait for, yeah.
So when did you start judging?
Because I think I was probably about 22.
Started judging dance competitions.
Yeah.
I went, I started teaching like on the different workshops, circuits and stuff like that around
22.
I remember going, no, I don't know if this is the same.
Going to the.
ITDI.
Is that a workshop?
Can you tell them what ITDI stands for?
International Teachers of Dance Incorporated.
And we would go and it would be.
Yeah.
That was one of the first ones, actually.
Oh my gosh.
Just what felt like a million little dancers and the most acclaimed teachers that you
got to take from Derek Mitchell for hours.
I know you love him.
Like I was that girl that was young and idolized these dancers.
Yeah.
These professional dancers, whether they were in music videos or Broadway, and then they
would come to, you know, a hotel and you take a conference with them.
I thought that I was going to die and go to heaven.
Derek Mitchell was one of them.
He was one of the best like jazz funk teachers and he was super cute.
So anyway.
Anyway.
Little lanes.
I was idolizing Frank Hatchett.
Yeah.
It was a little different.
Yes.
Frank Hatchett is like a king of all things jazz.
70 year old African-American man who we did love.
Same.
I felt the same way.
Was killed and was respected by everyone.
Yes.
And the kindest, most generous man.
But I remember going with you and being like, well, we're with Miss Kristen.
So we would walk behind Miss Kristen like her little little minions.
Yeah.
Following behind her.
And we would be walking around and being like, well, we're with.
We're with this.
We're with the head of this whole thing right now.
It was a great time.
It was it was great.
You know, everybody coming out and training and the emphasis being on learning and just,
you know, picking up better skills, being able to pick up quicker and to do more and
at that time, that's what that was.
Is it different?
And it's still that.
It's still that.
It's still that way now.
I mean, do they still have them?
Oh, God, yeah.
Yeah, there's tons of workshops and it didn't stop when I stopped and it didn't.
I'm sorry.
It didn't.
I mean, and there's tons.
Yeah, of course.
With that being said, as things evolve and, you know, how things change, you will, of
course, the same situation of people wanting to get to the center of the floor and I can
do 12 pure wets.
Watch me.
Yeah.
And they're, you know, and that's amazing.
And that shouldn't be overlooked.
Like that's an amazing skill.
There's amazing work that goes about to do that, but it's not everything.
So I think that's what a lot of like tricks.
I mean, yeah, and just, you know, different variations of things like it's appreciated
by the teachers and instructors and choreographers, but it's not everything all the time.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
So there's some times where you can watch a piece where the entire two and a half minute
piece is basically turns and tricks and there's just a very little bit of artistry.
You know what you mean?
And not to say that it's not beautiful and amazing because it is and the work that's
needed to accomplish that is huge.
But sometimes, you know, you're looking for a little bit more, a little bit more of a
connection.
So here's my question on that because we have, you know, we have my mom on.
First of all, Miss Kristen is a huge fan of the podcast and we love that she listens.
So I know we, I know she knows what we're talking about.
But our mom has trouble with judging or competitions because she she used to judge and she was
horrible at it because she doesn't know how you can put one dance against another because
it's so subjective.
What do you what do you say?
Well your mom is a true artist.
So I know exactly how she's looking at it.
Yes and no, because now the the competitive game has changed a little bit and how you
were judged or adjudicated, so to speak, is a little different.
Sometimes you're competing just against yourself and you're just being judged or adjudicated
on what you bring to the table.
You know, now, of course, with every comp, there is, you know, places, you know, you
want everybody wants to place.
So now it takes a little bit of a switch.
Everybody is not so concerned with where I individually came in, but like, where do we
come in overall?
Overall, that's where it leaves that like for the studio.
Over.
Yes, for their piece.
For their piece.
Okay, yeah.
Gotcha.
Does that have a factor?
Like, do you know each studio and know what should be coming from them?
No, no, no, no, not every studio.
Individual.
Absolutely.
And you don't know exactly what anybody is going to do.
Everybody really does their best every competition season to put their best foot forward, you
know, which is appreciated because, you know, when you're sitting there judging a competition,
you can be watching multiple, multiple dances in the same category.
You know what I mean?
Like contemporary, you could be watching over 100 contemporary solos.
Are you kidding me?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, do you say over 100?
Yeah.
Larger competition.
Larger competitions.
Absolutely.
How do you pick one?
Well, that's what I'm saying.
You are judging that soloist for what they are bringing to the table and then depending
upon their scores, that's how they would do their ranking.
I would be horrible.
Me too.
I would be flipping back going, wait, what do I like about this one?
And trying to remember, but you have scoresheets and there's like the whole process.
It's audio like this.
You talk.
There is most, most judging panels, you're not writing anything till the very end.
You're talking into video.
You're talking, so you're giving all your critiques and all of your comments and all
of those things on video.
And then at the very end, you know, who watches the video?
Well, it's sent to the studio owners and then they reviewed the choreographers review them
with the students and oh, my gosh, send it out to the parents.
But you know, so everybody.
That is what your opinion is.
What your my God, you can't even be anonymous.
Yeah.
What if you hate it?
What if you have nothing positive to say about the dance?
Well, you have to have something to offer.
Everybody can find something to offer.
You may not.
It may not be something that you would choose.
But at the end of the day, at the very least, you have to appreciate that person's work
and effort they put into it.
Right.
I mean, I guess it may not be a piece of music that you love or something you connect with.
You can find something positive in anything that you watch.
I'd be like trash.
Don't ever do this again.
What were you thinking?
Well, it weren't.
I'm embarrassed.
I'm unemployed.
Well, I had to choreograph a piece for a Miss, New Jersey, like what do you call them?
A beauty pageant.
Clearly, I'm not a scholarship program.
Clearly, not in the game.
So I believe that's what they're called.
There was a movie about it.
I'm laughing really hard.
OK, anyway, I think I did a beauty pageant.
A beauty pageant.
You did.
And I had to choreograph and they didn't win.
My mom and I did it together, actually.
And the number one comment on her thing was there weren't enough tricks.
It was too Broadway.
It was too stylized and not enough, you know, what they want in a competition, which we
are my mom and I aren't.
But there's a mix.
There is a mix.
At the end of the day, it's three people's opinion.
You have to respect it, but you can't let it wreck you.
You can't let it wreck you.
You know, for a kid, it is, but you have to build that now.
And if you want a career in this industry, you've got to develop a thick skin so you
can't let it take you to the floor, right?
At the end of the day, it's three people's opinions.
I'll take what you told me to work on.
I'll work on it.
But if I love this and you got to push forward with what's in your gut, you've got to go
with your gut because at the end of the day, your artistry and being authentic over overwins
and overshadows everything.
I mean, that's a life lesson for everything.
But if you're going to be a kid in competition world in the dance world, you're not just
a kid.
You're a dance kid.
So there's a difference.
Yeah.
So you have to already understand that stuff.
We were not that.
No.
So we would have cried a lot.
We would have.
And it's hard to say that the kids don't cry.
Yeah, yeah.
They do.
But and and I there's a large majority that are expressing that to their students.
Like at the end of the day, it's three people's opinions.
This time we do it better, we do it bigger and let's move on from it.
Let's take the learning lesson, use it as the tool that it is.
Right.
So that's what it should be.
It's a learning lesson.
We take the tools, we take what we got from it and we push it forward.
Yeah.
I can see you being a very helpful judge for sure.
How many how many golds do you have?
Do you even know?
Like so many.
Like do you win gold?
Is that how you're do you win like first place gold?
Well.
Depending upon.
She's laughing at you.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not because it really depends on how each competition does it because competitions
are so varied in their scoring systems and they're you know, you have Diamond and Ruby
and Sapphire and Platinum.
I'm sorry.
What?
So gold, gold is kind of if we're doing in a true adjudication in many competitions,
gold is third place, right?
Because you have rose gold.
Sterling silver.
Brushed, brushed gold bronze.
So you would have platinum, you would have high gold and then you would have gold.
So if you're trying to equate it to per second and third, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, gold is
technically I mean, trash.
No, no one is trash.
Not even a silver.
No one is trash.
It takes a lot to get up and to do this in front of hundreds of people and to try to
put your best foot forward.
And sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, but it's never trash.
It's trash.
Bill.
Really, Carly?
Yes.
Can you guys hear and feel that?
We got one.
Can you feel it?
Something tells me there's going to be another.
I'm going to put that on the loop.
In saying all of that, now I got to get back get back in it, Miss Kristen.
I got to get my serious hands on.
Have you noticed any difference between kids before TikTok and like the dancers, specifically
dancers pre-TikTok versus now?
Is there a difference?
Maybe there isn't other than the fact that while you're trying to teach class sometimes
they're doing TikTok dances instead of focusing on what they're supposed to be doing with
their instructor.
Yeah.
Other than that, it's a big one.
It's not wild.
But like even that comes with a respect factor.
I would never have been openly doing and we didn't have TikTok, but I wouldn't be rehearsing
another dance class's dance while the current teacher in front of me is trying to teach
me something.
Like it's wild.
It's so wild to my brain.
That's why you're you and wonderful.
But I also think it was a different part of the generation.
Absolutely.
Why is that?
It's not acceptable.
But like why do they think that that's acceptable?
Or is there not even a thought process?
I don't think there's a thought process to be honest.
I feel like, hey, I'm a dance class and I'm dancing.
I'm dancing.
There's a mirror.
You know, let me let me do it.
For the most part, I feel like when I I'm like, yo, guys, stop.
Oh, I didn't even know I was doing it.
Yeah.
I know.
You don't know.
Yeah.
They really don't know.
They just start and going.
Yeah.
It's a different problem.
No, that's right.
I mean, I think that's definitely a respect thing.
I would be scared to death to do that to any of my teachers, let alone Ms. Kristen's
class.
Oh my gosh.
I'm absolutely not, which we are painting you to be this fear for her.
I'm just going to say, I'm not.
No, no, no.
Wow.
She's not at all.
Not a villain just.
I get it.
I own it.
I'm good.
She's a Ruby.
I don't know.
What's the highest?
Platinum.
What's high?
High Platinum.
Thank you.
Oh, Platinum.
Damn it.
God.
She is the highest Platinum.
That's it.
I feel like I noticed it a little bit in their attention span.
Like they can't come back next week and remember what you did.
100%.
Can you video this so we can watch it?
But they don't watch it.
But I think a lot of has to do with, think about it.
When you guys were dancing, you went to school, maybe you had a job, maybe you didn't, maybe
you.
Deft didn't play.
Like maybe you were in a school play.
Maybe you, somebody played soccer or something.
And then you went to dance classes.
And then when you came home, you either practiced your dance routines or you worked on your
play, you did your homework.
Now with social media and TikTok and everything, they're constantly going.
They're constantly moving.
Their minds are constantly in a million different places at a million different times and a
million different things.
So they're not able really to retain what you would because that's what you're doing.
They're doing a million different things.
So then how do you get them competition ready?
Because I feel like the caliber of getting through classes with the timeframe that you
have, I don't know how long it takes to get to like from the beginning of the year to
your competition performance.
But how do you keep that momentum?
I mean, most competitive learning is not done in regular weekly class.
It's done either on a Saturday or a Sunday in classes that are designated for comp.
Yeah.
This is all about comp.
You know what he means?
Only.
Yes, Mrs. Krisci.
Miss Krisci.
Yes.
M.K.
Miss Krisci.
Yes, Farley.
What is your favorite story to tell about Victoria?
When you think of Victoria and you tell a story or you have a thought, what is it?
I don't like how you're asking this person.
I like the tone in your voice.
My favorite story.
Or just-
I don't know if I have a favorite story but I will.
Because they're all good.
They are.
She hates me.
She's one of the most hardest working students I've ever encountered in my entire career.
I'm not a variable Bible period.
Bible period.
Bible. No cap.
None.
I will say I I would fight you a lot.
In my head.
Mostly.
No, I would outwardly fight you because you always wanted to put me in the middle and I never wanted to be in the middle.
Guess who wanted to be in the middle back?
Yes, she's pointing to herself.
Carly wanted to be up front in the middle at all times and if she wasn't she was like
Me well, here's how mean I was I wanted to be in the back Victoria was always you didn't belong in the back
Really?
Oh, no, you can't do it.
You can't do it. It was even a laugh as it came out
Victoria was the effort though.
Hey, for effort when we were little Victoria was always a stronger dancer than I was more confident dancer even when she was younger
But I would never allow her to be in my dance class and yeah, I'm aware
You can't really do that except our mom owned to the studio
So I would be like mom I won't dance if she's in my class
I will not dance, but she was better than our level and I she wasn't she never danced with us
And we kept her back and we held her down. I never dance. Yeah, she's in therapy now for it. So
So I'm sorry about that in my classes. I just remember
Being like oh my gosh, miss Kristen. I'm gonna kill you stop putting me in the middle
I don't want to do the 14 seconds solo
and also I
Don't want to get on the floor
And I was like miss Kristen put me in the middle. I love solos and I'm my own
question did you do the solo I
Did everything you told me to do. Oh, thank you
Even now I do everything you told me to do oh
Miss Kristen, but did you teach Carly? Yes. Are you joking me?
Are you joking me? Yes, love. I do. She has a very weird non-existent memory. It's called disassociation
Yeah, I don't know what I don't remember a lot of her. Yes. She taught me hip-hop tat lyrical ballet
What else you're still smiling human
Listen, I mean I was a happy student. Yes. I I was very happy
What's your favorite memory of Carly then being amazing? Of course
um, I
Remember her always
Viving and fighting for the middle. Yes. I was which
But I do I remember her other than the floor work other than the floor work. I don't like always always
Ready and willing to try you know what I mean like whatever I threw I don't think I'm similar to you in very you know
What I mean like okay, let's try other than the floor other than though I did get her there twice
Yeah, only twice. Uh-huh in lyrical and you brought out wait wait. I know the story the day I had to pull out the mat
I was just gonna bring that. Oh my god. Yeah, I cried I
Couldn't and it wasn't
Let me go on the record. It wasn't something crazy. It wasn't something crazy
Everybody was trying and she was a hot mess. I'm like fine. Let's just put out a mat. Can you try it on a mat?
And it was like one of those you know those
Back rollovers that everybody does you know in their sleep now. Yeah, well it was new to me and I was not
You know five doing it. I was like 16 doing it
Well, you're afraid of everything I know and she had to after 20 minutes of fighting me about it
She put out the gym mats and she was like do it and I still couldn't do it get on the mat
Yeah, yeah, and she was mad couldn't be as you didn't want to try as I was afraid. I
I'm mad right now and me being afraid is like no miss Chris, then no because here's the thing
That's not how that was presented. I'm afraid
You know what I mean? That's difference you can work through fears and you can get somebody there not everybody
Instantaneously goes on the floor and flips over backwards. It's a process. Yeah, my lovely friend
AKA Carly I want to be in the middle of time
I didn't even want to give it a go. Yeah, you know me my things just give it a try if it doesn't work
It doesn't work. Let's just try it. Yeah, you don't know until you try it. Yeah, that's not Carly's way of
Trying anything you cried. Yeah, I cried because I got because I got miss Kristen upset
And I like went home and I cried to mom because I was like oh she didn't cry to me
No, I cried mom no because I got miss Kristen upset. I thought she was mad at me. No, yeah
She was disappointed in you. That's worse. Oh, it's worse. Her expectations were lower
But guess what she never asked me to go on the floor again
She's like what a waste of a class
What's your favorite style, but I'm I know
It's tap right
But tap has always been that is my soul your feet are the fastest things I've ever seen in my life
Save me on Glover or Gregory Hines right Savion Glover Gregory Hines pick one
I can't it's impossible. It's impossible to best tapers in the world. It's impossible
It's impossible to do. Yeah cool
Good question Carly. I will tell you I will tell you because I did meet them both. They are just such
War well war for Gregory. Yeah Savion is just the most amazing human on the planet. What was he bringing the noise bringing a funk?
Yes, one of many. Yeah, yeah
Yeah
They're if you don't know them go YouTube them look them up. I mean I make the kids to a tap history on on them
Really because you would be amazed
Right, so you need to you need to know a little bit about the greats in what you want to do, right?
So if you're a runner and you don't know who Carl Lewis is
You know what I mean? Yeah, same kind of thing if you love soccer and you don't know who David Beckham is
You know what I mean? Yes, I that's more doable
And I always use the Michael Jordan analogies and kids. I'm like, I'm sorry if you don't know who that get out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
Miss Kristen. Are you ready to play a little game?
No, but let's go
Like you were in a white van trying to get kids for candy. What?
You want some candy for Halloween?
Okay, there are two names to this game
I'm not gonna tell you who made what and you're gonna pick what the name of your game is gonna be that's rule number one
I like it. Okay. This is the first. Okay. Mm-hmm
The title of your game is either tap time or nap time
or
Don't hack this up
Which name do you like better and I'll tell you the first one?
Miss Kristen tap time or nap time
Of course it was a victorious. No
Because don't have so don't hack this up is because last name is a hackney, but it's it's yeah, she said I got it
It was for the people
All right fine tap time or nap time tap time or nap time actually has nothing to do with the game because it doesn't go
But it a yeses tap time duh. I know is
That's cool because this is an either or oh god
Are you ready miss Kristen?
I don't know what I'll give it a go. Okay. All right. We're gonna play rapid fire. You pick one or the other
Okay, quick as can be first thing comes to your mind. I
Know a lot of these answers by the way ready set go Pepsi or coke coke Island vacation ski vacation Island
Tapper hip-hop tap kids or adults kids. Oh
Cosmo or wine Cosmo
Mm-hmm dogs or cats both. Ah, ah acceptable
New Yorker, LA New York Britney Spears Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera Mexican food Italian food Italian of course
Netflix and chill going out on the town out on the town. Mm-hmm coffee or tea tea
She loves good tea
She does
Texting or a phone call
Okay, Carly or Victoria? No, they
Got her first one
I really honestly legit thought you were gonna really honestly legit. Mmm thought you're gonna pick Victoria
I knew you were to set me up. I knew it was coming. So I already had a plan
This is not my first rodeo girls
Miss Christine guess what?
You won
No nap time no nap time all tap time all tap time miss Chris and this was fun. It was fun. Thank you so much
I'm gonna ask you a question that is not part of anything that we told you to prepare for
Must haves for like the best costume
What genre?
You know because it's a winning genre. Oh
Like I feel like there's sparkles in sequence
For sure if it's something that calls for it absolutely if you're gonna give it give it
All right, not lyrical for like a jazz music leader tap number. Sure. Give me
Feathers give me sequence. Give me a sleek silhouette. Give me some
A nice a nice neckline with some edging cutting out in the bodice or in the neck
Legs and feet being all the same color
Right like tan all the way down. You're not yet tan all the way down
Like if you're wearing something that has shorts or tan if you're going with tan tan all the way down
so don't have shoes tan tight or or put on a
studded fishnet or just the plain fishnet or
a
Black shear to keep everything the same color and God cuz it draws your eye
But sometimes not in the best way and it cuts off your legs
Right, so even the tallest girl that makes her look a little shorter and those of us that are shorty, right?
Yeah, you need to be you need to lengthen at all cost. Yeah. Yeah, so that's my peeve. That's my peeve
The different leg. All right. Hi bun or split down the middle low ponytail
What kind of these that same tap hip-hop jazz funk? Oh
Tap oh split split ponytail. Yeah, like slick back big diamond earrings. Let's get me a little J. Lo. Yeah, it's big
Yeah, nice
nice
Love it. Well, thank you miss Kristen. Thank you girls
At the end of the day competitive studio
Non-compete the goal is the same to instill the love of dance whether you want to compete and
Take it to that performing level or you just want to come every week and dance with your friends through high school and
Look back on an amazing experience at the end of the day
It's about giving that love of dance and opening up so many minds to it
So whichever you choose just choose the one that's best for you
Amazing and guess what you can have miss Kristen in both of those
Areas you can have her in the competition studio and you can also have her in the non competition studio and we are very grateful for that
So we hope you remember you are always fit to be real and always allowed to be a little extra
Bye
Bye miss Christian. We love you. Thank you so much. Love you both. Thank you
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