Recently Chloe Lukasiak has been all the news because she won teen choice first ever choice dancer. Then a week later won the industry favorite dancer 17 and under. Did she win these because she is the best dancer under 17? No Miss Sophia Lucia she did not. She won them because even though she left the show Dance Moms she remained humble and loyal to her following. She has dedicated fans who wanted to know what was going on in her life and that she was OK after leaving the show. So she created a you tube channel where she post videos showing dance moves to encourage other young girls to dance, Shared a book of the month to encourage others to read along with her and share comments on the books and in general just showed herself being an ordinary kid living an ordinary life. Because of her popularity on you tube she is enjoying her second journey with Digi tour with kids her own age and just having fun being a teen. She is not missing school to do this as many are ranting about. You see that shows the haters are old grouchy people who don’t have a clue its a Holiday week end and she is not missing School to do this. Hello Granny wake up it’s September already!!!!
Of course as soon as she won the haters say it was all pity votes. You know I have not seen one thing to pity Chloe Lukasiak for. She may have danced the black swan but this girl has blossomed into a beautiful swan before our very eyes. She reminds me so much of a young Jennifer Aniston I cant help but compare the two’s looks. Go ahead say Jennifer isn’t a knock out. The majority of the media will disagree with you.
The fact is Chloe’s dancing has progressed greatly since leaving the ALDC. She is a more polished dancer who is no longer afraid to show her emotions when she dances. You can see the second her mind turns off when she is on the floor and just becomes one with the music and looses herself completely to the dance. That is not talent you can teach that is talent that is inborn. And it is not talent every one will be able to see but someone who is trained will see it and that is what matters most when it comes to getting jobs.
Everyone was up in arms lately saying “Chloe said she was giving up dance to pursue other things like acting” No she did not say that. She said she was giving up competition dancing just like most girls her age do because once your a teen there is not that much to do in competition other than spend all day Saturday and Sunday at the event when you want so much to do other things and for what? A plastic trophy that wont matter when you go to audition for a dance job?
Choreographers hiring dancers could care less if you have won every thing you ever entered. Can you dance to what they want you to dance? Can you show the emotion they want to see? You can be a practiced competition dancer and walk into an audition and bore the socks off a choreographer with your dancing because you can not improv. You can not do spur of the moment dancing with learning a routine in ten minutes. You need hours and hours of practice to get it right. Sorry that wont happen in the real world. You have it or you do not have it and if you cant get it all on the stage the first try there are no second tries. Chloe can do this. She is great at improv and putting her feelings on the floor.
Dance teachers across the country are building up students to believe they are the best dancer in their age group. They will be the star dancer in the future when in fact they are training more back up dancers than will ever be needed. Why because they never allow the student free time to dance what they feel with the music. Just get out on the floor and make up your routine as you go to what this piece of music says to you. They spend hours and hours drumming into their heads that they have to learn this dance step by step, tell them what facial expression to make with each move and when it comes time to just dance they cant do it.
Chloe made the right decision to leave this studio and show. She felt things she was not allowed to show because she was not the chosen star of the show. So she and others had to downplay their talents. Look second best when they were not if you will.
Did Chloe win these awards because she is a better dancer? Partly. Yes, it was fan based voting and others did not have fans voting for them but that is in part their own fault because of the way they have acted superior and just plain entitled. “Well I am so and so I am expected to win.” not really. Your expected to love to dance. Really love it. Not love what your told to love but love what you feel in your heart. It shows on the stage when you have truly lost the drive to want to be the best dancer but continue because it is expected of you. If you have not learned what you need to know at one studio to break out and be a better dancer then by all means you need to find another studio that can challenge you and bring out the best in you.
When summer break is on and everyone and their brother is giving intense camps do not be dancing every day in your own studio. Get out of there for the summer and take a class at each and every studio you can get to. Learn to be yourself. Your current studio is not allowing that, you are being who and what they want you to be and Chloe realized this so she went where she could be free to dance what was in her heart and soul . By doing this she actually acquired more fans and more respect.
Lord knows its hard being a teen but Miss Lukasiak has managed to handle it all with dignity, charm and a humbleness you do not see in many her age these days. ( or many adults either for that matter) She does not make short videos of herself slamming herself for loosing something like a fan based contest. She does not slam other contestants on social media saying the wins they get were handed to them and she would rather earn hers. She has earned them by being the girl you want to invite to your studio to speak to your students about not giving up. About how to carry yourself in a positive light and how to go after the things you truly love instead of being what others say you should be. But Most importantly Miss Lukasiak can teach others how to be true to themselves.
If she were invited on a national TV show to dance she would not have to run to the side of the stage to put on one shoe while the camera is on the other dancers but focused on her back the entire time struggling to put on a tap shoe so she can make her turns. No she has those turned nailed already regardless of what shoe she is wearing. See there are some things most do not notice but those in the dance industry do not miss. So when you brag and look Jealous of someone else’s fan base voting for them stop and ask yourself why you do not have the same fan base?
If you put on a positive front for others to admire regardless of what you are going through you have positive results come back to you. If you are dedicated to showing your fans you are someone that future generations of dancers can look up to then you will increase your fan base. Positive brings positive to you the same as negative will bring negative to you.
I know for a fact had Chloe not won these awards she would have congratulated the winner and not said one negative word on social media or made fun of anyone else because that is the good person her parents raised her to be.
The best thing Chloe learned at ALDC was who she did not want to be. She will never say it but since leaving the show you see the beauty and grace that is only Chloe . She is holding her head up high and sending loud and clear messages to those who beat her down that she is doing it on her own time in her own way and proving them all wrong.
Week after week you hear Miss Abby Lee Miller ranting about loyalty. Where is her loyalty to her own students. She pits her students against one another and then hand picks who can be whose best friend this season. Its insanity at its best and for the life of me I do not understand any mother being that loyal to a teacher that she comes before the welfare of their own child. Your loyalty should never be with a studio owner. It should be to the child who wants to be a professional dancer. Its time to move on to someone who can make that happen. To the child who wants to be a professional singer. Hello, have you heard that auto tuned mess they are publishing. Get out and find someone who will tell you the truth. Either your child has the ability or they do not but stop paying this woman a percentage of yours and your child’s earnings if that is what is going on because she could give two figs about your child . She cares about the money and that is all. She cares about the fame your child is bringing her not themselves.
So haters keep on hating but your putting your hate in the wrong basket. If you want to hate then go after the person who is holding back your favorite on the show not the one out there doing it all on her own without the connections that show has given to the others. That is the one dancer you should be admiring the most. She is doing it on her own with the right agent and the right support of home, family and true fans.
She goes to normal school and has normal friends. Her friends could care less that she is semi famous they only care that she is a good person and a good friend who does not let fame go to her head. She appreciates the chances she gets and does age appropriate things to keep from soiling her reputation. She goes to events with kids her age not a pack of paid baby sitters who get a prepaid credit card to spend just for taking her to the mall for a few hours. No, Chloe is not the one who should be getting your pity here. She is the one you need to be watching because if your not one day you will wake up and say where did so and so go and how on earth did Chloe reach the top. She is reaching it by sheer determination and talent that is Chloe’s.
And please Chloe fans try to remember what you do is a reflection of her on social media. Keep it classy like Chloe is and stop accusing everyone of every thing under the sun. You have a falling out with some one deal with it in messages not post trying to divide her fans into sides. We are all adults here. I hope. And Let Chloe keep having a normal life. She does not need to respond or post every single day to her true fans. She can do it once a week if that is all the time she has from her busy life to do it and we will still support her. But going on Social media demanding she post something is a good way to make her not want those fans following her.
Just enjoy what your favorite wants to share with you and do not encourage the press with all these false reports some of them are posting lately. Good lord they lurk in facebook groups and pick up rumors or something a fan says and the next thing you know it is in print as the gospel. Just take each thing including this blog with a grain of salt for entertainment value. Not the gospel facts because none of us live with these girls or know what is really going on in their personal lives.
Be happy and share your happiness with others. Be negative? Please find a cave to dwell in there is way to much negativity in the world today and young children do not need it attached to them.
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