TNS and AcroNation find themselves competing for rehearsal space with regionals at stake while Richelle and Noah practice their duet, with the help of a coming-back character.
I love this episode because it's the one where Richelle and Noah rehearse their duet for Regionals and where Richelle is revealed that she has lyrical eyebrows!
This episode starts with Richelle dancing a ballet solo in Studio A, in front of Michelle, Emily and Noah, who will be in the pas de deux of Regionals. Michelle and Emily were leaning towards Summer and Noah for the pas de deux but Richelle wanted to be considered so she choreographed the solo for them, it's impressive. Richelle's solo is the last chance that she has to be featured at Regionals. Her ballet technique is flawless, her feet look stunning, everything that they ask, Richelle can do it. Besides, it is very difficult to be doing that many turns on pointe shoes, she's incredible!
Everyone is very impressed is Richelle and Noah are given the pas de deux for Regionals. Richelle is so excited but Emily tells them that they will have to work really hard, and the work starts today, with a special guest, someone who danced in Paris, who knows all the dancers of The Next Step and Eldon's weaknesses, it's Chloe! Chloe is back at the studio! Her ballet company is on tour in Toronto so she was able to help them to choreograph the pas de deux for Regionals. Chloe came with her assistant, Oliver, who is also a ballet dancer. In real life, Oliver's actor won a UK Competition and the prize is to be in an episode of The Next Step, congratulations!
Richelle and Noah start working on the choreo with Chloe and Oliver, their duet looks really beautiful so far. But Richelle is lacking a little bit of emotion, as always, "Feel the connection, Richelle, more emotion, Richelle, I wanna feel it! Even more!". But Richelle still thinks that ballet is about the technique, not the emotions. Richelle is supposed to give more emotion, to attract the judges, but she isn't doing it enough.
Meanwhile, in Studio 1, Amy is rehearsing and she's kind of stressed because she's on every dance of Acronation, she has to rehearse a lot. Summer comes into rehearsal her Regionals dances in Studio 1, which is already occupied by Amy. The two girls agree on sharing the studio but Thalia and Eldon stop the double rehearsal, not because Summer would be able to copy Amy, but because ideas can be easily copied or inspired, even if it's not on purpose.
In Shakes & Ladders, while Finn and Piper are having fun together, Kingston is studying and when Ozzy comes in to grab a juice, Kingston is really mad seeing Ozzy and becomes really angry. Ozzy got Kingston out of Regionals and now he's dancing at his place. Piper and Finn feel bad about the tension between Ozzy and Kingston because it can affect their dancing, Piper is stressed but this bad atmosphere.
Always in Studio A, Richelle and Noah's duet is taking shape. Noah is an amazing technician but he's conveying all the necessary energy, he has star power. They finish their dance and Chloe decides to do a little break, so she can talk to Noah.
Chloe tells Noah how amazing he is and that Noah could really make the leap to pro, in other words, becoming a professional dancer, the dream of all the dancers. There's an upcoming audition for the musical "Robin Hood" and Noah could really consider the audition. But he's also committed with The Next Step and Regionals, but he doesn't have to worry because all the rehearsal for the musical are after Regionals, so he could really go to that audition, why not! It's a big opportunity!
In the lockers room, Noah sees Richelle who asks him why his meeting with Chloe lasted so long, did he get in trouble? Well, Richelle, it's the opposite, Chloe wants Noah to audition for Robin Hood. It makes Richelle perplex, why Chloe asked Noah and not her? Richelle has been going up with Noah since J-Troupe and they've pretty much put in the same hours and been on the same level, so Richelle isn't sure why she wasn't given this opportunity as well. Well, Chloe might have chosen Noah probably because he's a boy! But anyways, Noah doesn't want to go to the audition because of the team, but Richelle tells him that if this was her, she would already have her audition piece ready. After talking with Richelle, Noah is rethinking the entire situation, maybe the audition isn't so bad, Richelle cleared Noah's head.
Then, in Studio 1, Eldon, Summer, and Amy are standing there, instead of rehearsing for Regionals, because two rival teams can't rehearse together. So Eldon comes in with an "excellent" idea, he uses himself as the support for a sheet, in other words, he becomes a human moving curtain!
Back in the lockers room, Finn wants to show Piper something on his phone, it's a kid commercial for Fruity Moons, a brand of cereals that everyone used to eat at breakfast when they were kids! Piper loved this commercial when she was a kid. This video made Piper less stressed and that's what Finn wanted, but she has to keep the secret, no one can know that Finn a was commercial star! They already share a secret! Finn seems to trust Piper a lot!
In Studio A, Richelle and Noah show Chloe, Michelle, and Oliver their choreography for the duet ballet for Regionals, it's even more beautiful and Michelle loves it! She's super impressed! Chloe did a really good job! After their rehearsal, Richelle talks with Chloe, she wanted to ask her why Chloe picked Noah for the audition and not her, she's kind of worried about her dance career. Chloe confesses her than even if her technique is amazing, she's not feeling the dance, it's just really surface like "Lyrical Eyebrows". What are lyrical eyebrows? Well, lyrical eyebrows tend to happen when you're faking the emotion rather than really feeling it. So that because Richelle has lyrical eyebrows, that's gonna affect her career, sadly. If she's not letting emotion drive every single move, she's just not gonna make it, that's what it takes to be a professional dancer. Richelle is really sad about her not using her emotion but she never thought that it would affect her dance career, maybe that's what's keeping her from being better than Summer. So, Richelle really needs to work on her "Lyrical Eyebrows" and "By the time I get to Regionals I have to figure out how to dance with real emotions!"
In the office of Studio A and because of the scheduling mistake between TNS and Acronation and because they are two rival teams in the same studio, Emily talks with Miss Kate on the phone to try to clear out the situation. The situation gets kind of complicated and tensed between the two rival studios when Emily announces that Miss Kate finally decided not to let Thalia and her studio dance here anymore. Thalia and Acronation are kicked out of the studio. The two studios are now enemies, this is about winning, not friendship.
Later in Lockers Room, Richelle comes to Jacquie to talk with her about her lyrical eyebrows because she trusts her the most. Jacquie tells her that Richelle does have a real problem with her lyrical eyebrows. Richelle is very surprised that she hears about her problem just today: "If you have food in your teeth, someone tells you, I mean, how is no one told me that I have lyrical eyebrows?". Jacquie tells her that she is kind of emotionally stiff... that's why Chloe chose Noah instead of her for the audition. Jacquie didn't know about this audition, her boyfriend didn't tell her...
Meanwhile, in Studio A, Oliver comes in to pick up Chloe's bag but while he's there... why don't he dance!
Later, in Studio A, we can see Noah holding the card that Chloe gave her with the phone number of the audition for Robin Hood the Musical. Noah is trying to decide on what to do with this audition, he doesn't want to leave the studio but this musical seems like too good of an opportunity to pass up. Jacquie comes in and they talk about the audition: Noah doesn't still know what to do about it and Jacquie tells him to do whatever he thinks is best. The production will go on tour a lot, sometimes even to Australia, they wouldn't see each other... Jacquie is honestly scared that Noah would leave, but this could be really big for Noah! She encourages him to stop stalling and just make the call! Noah is torn, on one hand, he's happy that his girlfriend supports him, but on the other, he isn't sure what this means for their future. Is Noah going to leave the studio?
This episode ends with Amy and Summer hanging out in Shakes & Ladders, they are both waiting for the scheduling mistake to be set and actually have some fun, they might be in rival studios but they are still friends and miss each other. Eldon comes in and tells Amy to come with him right now because Miss Kate has kicked AcroNation out of the studio so Amy has to come with Eldon right now and get away from the enemy. This is just terrible, see you at Regionals then.
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