We have a new membe. This young lady is Maesi,
and her mom's name is Jaime. I'm going to let you go ahead
and introduce yourselves. My name is Maesi
Caes and I'm 11 years old from Altoona, Iowa. I am Jaime Caes, and I am
a licensed funeral director and embalmer. She can't hang out
at funeral homes the rest of life
doing pirouettes, so we're here in LA
to train with you. She has got the whole package. She's flexible. She does tumbling, she can do
hip hop, she can do lyrical. Anything you throw
at her, she can do. All right, Maesi. I want you to go change
and throw this on, honey. All right? I am building one super ALDC
team, that team that nobody's going to beat. And I always look at
Kalani as the oldest member of the group and Lilliana
as, potentially, the youngest member of the group. I've never really looked
at it from the middle out, and that's what I should be
doing, because that's the core. This is going to put the
pressure on that kid. This week we're attending Fierce
National Talent Competition in Agora Hills, California. I came up with two trios. Our first trio will be
Lilliana, Elliana, and Maesi. Your trio is titled,
"Birds Whisper." Maesi, you will take the lead. Well, why would she
take the lead if she just arrived an hour ago? Because your kid cried. What about Lily, though? You've been with her for a
few weeks, and if she hasn't asserted herself already-- Maesi knows that's
why she's here. She can take over. Come on, girls. [music playing] The second trio is Lilliana,
Elliana, and Maesi. This is important. The two little ones
are really little. They're teeny-tiny. They're this big. So when they stand next to
Brynn, there's a huge gap. I thought that a kid like
Maesi, her age, her height, would bridge the gap. But my question is, will she
be able to hang with the rest of these kids, though? Does she have what it
takes to be a star? Ah! Stop. Yo, funeral director, come here. She wants me? This ought to be great. Run. Come hither. Do you see your
kid's sickled foot? Sitting right in front of the
judges with that left foot. If she's got something
wrong, then you correct it, and then she'll get it fixed. If she fails-- [choking sounds] All right.
- OK. I wouldn't do that
in your line of work. - No.
- Not funny. - No.
- All right, go. OK. Maesi's the lead,
she's in the middle, and she's got sickled feet. Then maybe she
shouldn't be the lead. Sounded like she had a
technical deficiency. Yes, with her foot. She had a little
sickled foot in there, and so she just wanted to show
me that there's a sickled foot. A little sickled feet? That's not little for Abby. It sounds like you're
a little intimidated that Maesi was brought in. Is that-- No. Ultimately there's a
lot of pressure on her, and the technical aspect is
already being questioned. Jaime, so thankful that you're
here, because Stacy and Yolanda have been so nice to us this
week, because I think they have someone else new to target. Jaime is thoroughly
being accepted by all the Junior Elite moms. You guys were brutal to me when
I came in, but all of a sudden this woman walks
in, and you're like, yes, come on in with open arms. I think it's ridiculous. Jaime, just from
what I've seen so far, is that what you want your
11-year-old to dance like? As far as the choreography? Yeah. This is not a junior dance. This is, like, age
appropriate for their kids. This is not age
appropriate for yours. Oh, really. Wow. I don't think that she's
dancing down to our kids. No, I'm not saying that. That's the problem, is
Yolanda that everything we say is negative to her child. It has nothing to do with that. This is age
appropriate for them. Yolanda wants her daughter
to act like she's 18 and dance like she's 18. Don't try to-- It's like, she's nine! Let her be nine, Yolanda! Don't try to
think that you know what I want for my daughter. I think I know more
than you think I know. Now about my daughter. I get what type of
dance mom you are. I get it. You're a certain kind of
dance mom, where you want Brynn to be a leader, and
not, necessarily, she wants to be the leader. Nope. Nothing that kid does comes from
me, unlike you with Elliana. Which I think Elliana
thinks you're going to beat her if she doesn't win. Oh, that's like
crossing a line there. I've told her all
the time, I'm like, honestly if you want to walk out
those doors, I will follow you. Yolanda is one of the craziest
dance moms I have ever met. And I think she sees that
as long as Maesi is here, Elliana is not going to be the
star of the little kid team. It's going to be a
long week for Jaime. She is probably going to miss
hanging out with dead people, because I think I would rather
hang out with a dead person than Yolanda.
