Dance Moms - Season 8

Abby finally returns to the competition dance scene where her legacy first began in Pittsburgh PA. Emotions run high and tension builds as Abby hopes her new team of seven strangers can dance together as one. No dancer is safe and the cracks begin to show as some new team members struggle to shine.

The pressure is on with Abby giving two lucky dancers the first solos of the season, leading one mom to explode at competition. The team struggles with a challenging tribal dance, and an injury puts the entire routine in jeopardy. Abby's star dancer cracks under the pressure.

Abby challenges the team with her most serious group dance yet, and casts Lilly as the lead for the first time in her ALDC career; when GiaNina complains about her choreography, Abby unleashes her wrath on the Broadway veteran.

Abby makes a shocking announcement that she's sending someone home; Stacey and Tricia go to war over Abby's star dancer, Brady; when tasked with picking their own duet partners, the young dancers fear that the wrong decision could send them home.

Abby sends one dancer home changing the future of the ALDC team. A tribute to Queen pushes Brady to his limits, and GiaNina dances for her life in a solo rematch with Hannah.

With Brady gone, Abby challenges the girls to prove that they can win on their own; GiaNina is assigned an over-the-top character solo to go head-to-head with Sarah, who hopes her first solo can be a personal win for her family.

It's hell week at the ALDC and Abby assigns the girls a group dance about sorority hazing. As part of a plan to help motivate the girls, Abby brings back former teammates Yolanda and Elliana. Seemingly causing more harm than good, one mother shockingly quits the team with the return of these two familiar faces.

With a losing streak weighing heavily upon the team's shoulders, fighting between the girls puts the group dance in jeopardy; Abby gives a mini her big shot at joining the team; a duet with GiaNina and Elliana leads to all-out war between two moms.

Heading to her first competition in Pittsburgh since her return, Abby challenges the ALDC team with their most daring routine yet; longtime rivals Lilliana and Elliana go head-to-head in famous solos inspired by former ALDC member JoJo Siwa.

With only 6 weeks until nationals, the team has the worst record in ALDC history, and Abby is blaming the mothers. Abby has her two star dancers go head-to-head to show her who deserves a solo at nationals. When a local rival shows up at competition, Abby calls the police on the mother she thinks is to blame.

Hannah faces her biggest challenge yet when Abby assigns her the lead in the group dance; Elliana and Sarah have a solo showdown; Abby's treatment of Michelle threatens to tear Sarah and Michelle apart; Yolanda threatens to quit the team.

The ALDC girls give their take on the episode where as news spreads of Elliana's shocking departure, Abby challenges the team with a ballet group dance inspired by The Angry Birds Movie 2, casting GiaNina as the lead. Rivalries brew as two duets compete against their partners for ALDC jackets, and Michelle is in the dog house after the Studio 19 drama at last week's competition.

With nationals quickly approaching, the moms lash out when Abby decides to hold an open call audition for a new team member; Pressley and Hannah compete for their shot to perform a solo at nationals; Abby receives devastating news from Los Angeles.

The ALDC girls give their take on the episode where GiaNina and Sarah go head-to-head for their shot at dancing a solo at nationals while the team performs a group routine unlike anything the ALDC has done before. Michelle comes to blows with the other moms and a confrontation at competition sends Abby over the edge.

The ALDC girls give their take on the episode where with only one week until nationals, and a chance for redemption in Pittsburgh on the line, the pressure is on for the ALDC. Abby choreographs her most personal group dance yet, and Brady and Pressley go head-to-head for the chance of dancing solos at nationals. Tension between the moms could jeopardize everything, as one team member quits unexpectedly.

The ALDC girls give their take on the episode where Abby's comeback to competitive dance is put to the ultimate test as the ALDC team heads to nationals in New York City. With three solos going head-to-head for the national title, and a musical theater-style group routine based on Broadway's The Prom, everyone is feeling the pressure. But tensions reach a boiling point when Abby is confronted with the ALDC's big rival Studio 19.

After a season jam-packed with mama drama, Jai Rodriquez sits down with the entire cast of "Dance Moms" to right the wrongs and finally set the record straight; the new elite team performs some of their award-winning dances from the season.

Jai Rodriquez joins the newest members of the ALDC as they dish the dirt on Abby, the moms, secret crushes and more; the girls give performances of their favorite award-winning dances.