Dance Moms - Season 2

The departure of Cathy and Vivi-Anne creates an opportunity for Abby to change the make up of her dance group with a big open audition. Holly's busy career schedule forces her to miss Nia's rehearsals and competitions, which Abby sees as a lack of Dance Mom dedication. Abby has to come to terms with Chloe's growing success.

Abby's dancers go head to head against Cathy's Candy Apples, but this time Cathy makes sure her dancers are unbeatable even if it means cheating. Cathy sets a poaching trap for the Dance Moms by inviting them to an anonymous cocktail party.

Brooke tries out for cheerleading leaving Abby and the dancers in the lurch the day before a big competition.

Abby choreographs a bully themed dance that sends Holly over the edge. The Abby Lee Dance Company is shaken-up when Abby replaces cheerleader Brooke with a new girl and switches girls in and out of dance numbers, sending the Dance Moms into a frenzy. Meanwhile, during cheerleading, Brooke learns the hard way that the grass isn't always greener.

Brooke's return from cheerleading to ALDC leaves no room for Peyton, so Dance Mom Leslie takes her to audition for the Candy Apples. Abby gives Kendall her ALDC jacket and announces that she is officially off probation. Now that Kendall is a permanent member of the team, Dance Mom Jill takes off her gloves.

It's "solo week" and Abby is fed up with the moms complaining about costumes so she makes them design new costumes for their kids...but Jill has a closet full of costumes that Abby has never seen before. Cathy holds a big open audition to supplement her Candy Apples.

The Dance Moms go ballistic when Abby choreographs a flashy private eye number complete with guns. After Christi and Kelly catch Jill chatting up a former Dance Mom, they're determined to expose her as a studio hopper.  Maddie finds herself on the bottom of the pyramid for the very first time and is determined to dance her way back on top.

After weeks of battling with Abby's Dance Moms, Jill studio hops to Cathy's Candy Apples. But...Abby and her ALDC dance team don't find out about Jill switching studios until they arrive at the competition where they discover that Kendall is going head to head against Nia...who for the very first time made it to the top of Abby's pyramid.

The dancers head to South Beach for a competition. When Paige needs to have surgery on her foot, the moms duke it out for her now-open spot in a trio number. 

Abby is determined to turn up the competition heat when the ALDC leaves frigid Pittsburgh for South Beach. After making it back into the coveted Trio, Paige must undergo foot surgery which sends the Dance Moms vying for the open slot like bridesmaids for a bouquet.

Christi and Kelly's persistent meddling in Melissa's private life sends the soon-to-be bride over the edge. Abby choreographs a gritty group number to bring awareness of the plight of the homeless. Principal Holly takes a leave of absence to dedicate herself to Nia's dance career.

The entire Abby Lee Dance Company is on edge when they learn a scout from the prestigious Joffrey Ballet in New York will be attending the competition. Abby pits the girls against each other by creating two trios...who will go head-to-head.

The dance season comes to a head when Abby's dancers compete in the Regionals and for a coveted scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. Abby has the worst day of her life when one of her top dancers freezes and Cathy and her Candy Apples show up at the competition. Will the Candy Apples finally beat Abby and her National title-holders?

At their last competition, Abby ran and left the moms and the girls at the show after Maddie froze on stage and they lost the group number to the Candy Apples.  But now she is back! With Maddie sitting on the bench until she regains her confidence, Chloe holds the fate of the Abby Lee Dance Company on her shoulders. Will Abby be able to convince Maddie to dance to clinch the win?

Week-long tension between Kelly and Abby comes to a head when Kelly makes a drastic decision seconds before her daughters take the stage. As Maddie struggles with confidence issues, Melissa will stop at nothing to get her daughter back on top. Meanwhile, Holly has the impossible task of creating the most elaborate costumes ever for a group number.

The cat-fight continues between Abby and Kelly after her daughters first receive unfair treatment and then are put on probation. When the other moms question Maddie's win last week, Melissa faces a cheating scandal. Plus, the girls must defeat two teams coming after the Abby Lee Dance Company at the Energy Dance in Michigan.

The 25th anniversary of Star Power is so big there are two competition venues filled with dancers. Abby covertly enters Maddie in both competitions...but to avoid sending the dance moms into a frenzy, Maddie must keep the secret. Abby choreographs a group number inspired by the hit teen movie The Hunger Games, but when Brooke drops out to attend a school dance Abby replaces her with Peyton which means one thing--Dance Mom Leslie is back.

Abby and the girls are out for revenge when they go against Cathy and her Candy Apples for the first time this competition season. Meanwhile, Kelly decides to takes matters into her own hands when she secretly re-choreographs Paige's solo. Jill begins to realize that the grass isn't greener over at Cathy's Candy Apples studio.

Dance Mom Leslie is back and will stop at nothing until her daughter gets a solo. Kelly s birthday party is a disaster when a big dance moms fight breaks out. Abby arranges for her girls to audition for the hit TV show Drop Dead Diva. For the first time, Brooke faces some tough competition from one of her own teammates.

Everyone is completely shocked when Jill and Kendall come crawling back to the Abby Lee Dance Company. Jealousy rears its ugly head when the moms learn that Maddie lands the coveted acting role on "Drop Dead Diva." Meanwhile, though Nia wows the crowd with another solo, Paige's dance future is threatened by a serious injury.

With Paige out with a broken foot, Jill seizes the opportunity and spins into hyper-Dance-Mom-mode trying to get Kendall to replace Paige in this week s numbers. Meanwhile, Maddie leaves dance rehearsals to shoot her big guest role on "Drop Dead Diva."  With one child already out with a broken foot, the bad news is compounded when Kelly learns that now Brooke has back pain.

When Cathy learns her Dance Mom Jill and daughter Kendal have gone back to the Abby Lee Dance Company, she plots her revenge at the next competition. After Abby discovers that Cathy s dancers will be there, she asks Maddie to do a solo, but Maddie turns down the opportunity when Melissa says "no" to the last minute addition. Now the pressure to win the solo category falls completely on Chloe. Meanwhile, Melissa battles the other dance moms over the theme of this week's group dance.

Abby's annual recital for the Abby Lee Dance Company shakes up the studio and the dance moms when she assigns a style of dance they have never done before. Potential disaster then arrives when Cathy and her Candy Apples crash the recital.

The arrival of a new dance mom and her daughter create a huge stir amongst the girls and the dance moms. With her broken foot healed, Paige gets the go-ahead from the doctor to dance in this week s important competition.

With Nationals next week, Abby must decide who will be dancing. To help make her decision, Abby assigns each girl, except Maddie, a solo and warns that she will be watching their performance like a hawk. After several weeks of not being in the spotlight, Maddie must prove to Abby that she still has the ambition to take on a solo. Also Paige s injured foot could cost her a spot at Nationals. Meanwhile, the dance moms take advantage of being in California this week. Melissa tries to sign her daughters with an agency and Kelly helps Brooke with her singing career.

The Abby Lee Dance Company battling for a National title, this time in glamorous Beverly Hills. Cathy and her Candy Apples follow Abby all the way to the 90210, where the girls will have another shot at beating Justice and Vivi-Anne. The entire team is thrown into a tailspin when Abby forces Chloe, Kendall and Nia to compete for one solo spot. When Abby casts Paige as a human prop in the group dance, Kelly breaks down and questions her place at the Abby Lee Dance Company.  And after all the National titles and crowns have been handed out, Cathy and Christi confront each other getting down and dirty like never before!

After the most tumultuous dance competition season ever, Abby and the Dance Moms reunite on stage to set the record straight. Unfiltered and unleashed, everyone gets the chance to tell each other what they really think...May the best Dance Mom win. Part 1 of 2.

After the most tumultuous dance competition season ever, Abby and the Dance Moms reunite on stage to set the record straight. Unfiltered and unleashed, everyone gets the chance to tell each other what they really think...May the best Dance Mom win. Part 2 of 2.