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I don’t know. I’m a dance teacher. I teach 2-3 year olds. I keep it fun with silly songs and games, but they learn actual dancing. My 2-3 class can do/name body positions, plies, tendus, passé, chasse, arabesque, ronde de jambe, sauté, and battements. Do they do them correctly all the time? No. But they know what the movements are and execute the best they can. My 2-3 year olds do a ballet/tap combo ~20-25 minutes of each. We do 1 recital per year (no competitions). It is obviously more laid back and less strict than my older classes, but at least at our studio, they are learning fundamentals of dance technique. I also started when when I was 2. Danced through high school, minored in Dance in college, and returned home to teach in the studio I grew up in part time. My only real dance ambition was to become a Rockette. However, I never grew past 5’1”, so that dream went out the window. ? I kept and keep dancing because I loved it. I teach, because I want to instill that love of Dance into other children. ETA: I have no idea why my phone insists on capitalizing dance every time. ?‍♀️

I don’t mind Christina, but I have to say, I hated every time she did a talking head. It always seems to me that she is trying to force herself to cry (most of the time unsuccessfully). There is rarely a tear in her eye, but she tries to make it appear as though she is overly emotional, perhaps because that’s what she thinks people expect of TCC. I’d respect her a lot more if she quit that crap. Outside of that, I have no issue with her being on the team, and obviously she had at least a decent year/audition or they wouldn’t have brought her back.

I didn’t watch the episode, but as a wedding photographer, I can confirm that this is definitely a thing. Some weddings are more “structured” about it, but many brides want special pictures of their dads seeing them for the first time in their gown. I’m in the south - maybe it’s a regional thing, not sure. I think it’s sweet, but I didn’t have a daddy-daughter first look at my own wedding (perhaps it was before it was really a thing?). We had intended to do pictures with my immediate family prior to the ceremony, so I guess that could have been considered a first look. As it turned out, my photographer was over an hour late and we didn’t have time for any family pictures before the ceremony. My dad saw me for the first time when he walked me down the aisle. And I met him halfway down - when I said when he walked me down, I mean that was literally the first time he saw me. We didn’t even have a few minutes alone before the processional. Haha! I have to say, I have taken some pretty sweet, pretty emotional pictures of daddy’s seeing daughters for the first time. I’m an emotional girl and I’m usually boohooing behind my camera during those moments.

Completely and totally agree. I havent looked at her page, but I’m under the same impression - she did her own. I can’t fathom why. If she wanted to broadcast it, just share the family’s link. ?‍♀️

This isn’t directed to you, triple P, I just grabbed your post to quote since it was about the broadcast. The family itself shared the link to the live feed of the service. Christin (the mother) posted the link the day prior to the service. I didn’t look at Jill’s video, so I can’t comment on that. I think the family shared the link because there were so many people praying for them around the country, they wanted those who weren’t local to be able to take part in the service as they continue praying for the family. My guess is that Jill’s line of thinking is that if the family shared a live feed, it was fair game for her to share it (NOT saying I agree with her, mind you!).

Alexis's suit is terrible. And every single one of those pictures have crooked horizons - these are professional photographers?! I'm usually not that critical of their photos, but c'mon. That's a basic, simple edit. Horizons should never be crooked!

I agree 110%. Exactly.

I live in an open container state. It does not apply to private land. ?‍♀️

I had the opportunity to meet Larry Hagman at an event several years ago - actually got to spend quite a bit of time with him throughout the day as we were both speaking at the same charity event. He was obviously the headliner...I was obviously not. Haha. It took everything in me all day long to keep from blurting out "who shot JR?". Seriously though, he was very kind to everyone we met all day, and I managed to behave and keep my tongue in check all day long. haha!

You’re right, and that’s what’s sad.

She broke the rules. She shouldn’t have. I agree. That horse has been beaten and bludgeoned to death. That doesn’t mean that she should be disciplined in front of the world. But she was, and she kept her smile, and from what we saw, kept a mostly positive attitude. Do I think she deserves a gold medal? No. But I think there’s a lot to be said for not reacting badly when she was given little privacy.

For the most part, I agree with the idea that we don’t get rewarded for behaving the way we are supposed to. I give a little extra grace to Jenna for one reason. For most of us, if we are reprimanded in our jobs, we are done so in private. Our colleagues generally do not know of discipline actions taken against us unless it affects their jobs as well. In Jenna’s situation, the only people who should have known that she was in trouble with management were her teammates, and only because it caused them to make a formation change. Jenna’s discretion’s were broadcast on TV. And she responded mostly with grace and humility and continued to do her job for the remainder of the season. She absolutely handled it in the correct way, but she wasn’t dealt a fair hand when her business was aired, and I do think she deserves to be commended for remaining the leader she appeared to be for the rest of the season.

I am SO sorry for your loss. I have a toddler and can’t imagine. But as someone who has watched a heart recipient grow and thrive for 21 years, on behalf of your precious babies recipients - THANK YOU. My sister was 10 when she received her first heart. Within 3 months she was back at school, back in ballet, within 6 months she was back on the softball field. She graduated from high school with honors, graduated from college with a double major, got married, and had a beautiful daughter. Her mission was to live doing everything her donor couldn’t do. Thank you for allowing other children to do that for your sweet baby. I am so sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you. Thank you. Transplant surgeries are a relatively common surgery these days. This isn’t 30 years ago when it was something that wasn’t being done every day and they could get by with making up a story to fit their needs.

I’m so sorry! I truly didn’t think you were trying to correct me, but I definitely came across that way, and I apologize. This is just a sensitive subject for me, and at a sensitive subject - we just recently lost my sister due to an infection. Because of the immunosuppresion drugs you have to be on following a transplant, her body just wasn’t able to fight it, even though she fought hard. She left behind a 4 year old. So this episode was really a gut punch for me.

I totally get that it’s a fictional scenario. My problem is the negative light it puts on the true issue of organ donation - which couldn’t be farther from the truth that this episode portrayed.

Haha! Touché

No problem. I consider it my mission to get the word out about organ donation. Without it, I would have missed out on 21 years with my sister. And I vote dock her pay by 15%. 5% to a researcher, 10% to organ donation outreach. ?‍♀️

Long time viewer of SVU - since the beginning. Never commented here. This episode pushed me over the edge, however. So much wrong with this episode. My sister was a 2 time heart transplant recipient. I’m a huge advocate of organ donation and spend much of my time volunteering for Donate Life and dispelling rumors about organ donation. This episode single handedly counteracts every bit of that. NOTHING in this episode about organ donation was true. Do they not do any research? I’m so angry. Organ donation is 100% anonymous - unless the donor and recipient BOTH choose to be made known to the other. There is no way the doctor at the time of death would know who the donor organs would go to. All organ donation is arranged anonymously through UNOS and are matched through very specific, strict criteria, including, but not limited to: severity of illness, status on waiting list, blood and tissue type, age, weight, cavity size, geographic location, just to name a few. The boy represented may have sounded good in theory, but to be as in need of a heart as they said he was, his criteria would have required him to be in-patient, and most likely on life saving devices. Again - my sister has received 2 of these. I have intimate knowledge. The doctor WOULD NOT know the names of the patients who received the organs she harvested...because in real life...she would not be the doctor harvesting the organs. The way things work is, once a patient is declared brain dead, but still has viable organs - and next of kin has signed consent forms, UNOS is notified with the patients information (including blood/tissue type, age, size, lifestyle, etc). UNOS then notifies the programs for the next patients who match those organs - they may or may not technically be the next on the list, they are just the next on the list that match. Those programs send THEIR procurement teams to harvest the organs - so these are doctors who have never seen or worked on the patient (who has already been declared brain dead) to remove the organs. Each hospital who will transplant the organs comes to get their own organs. And each team may decline an organ - it may be too large for their patient, for instance, if so, it will go to the next on the list. NO doctor who is trying to save a patients life is the one who procures the organs. And never would a potential donor and recipient meet the way they showed. What kills me even more is April is National Donate Life Month. While Donate Life America does all they can to try to get more people to donate, SVU just took us back 30 years by making people think a doctor is going to harvest your organs without consent. Someone is added to the transplant waiting list every 10 minutes. EVERY TEN MINUTES. Not enough people are signing up to be organ donors already. I’m so disgusted with SVU. How dare they.

That crooked horizon line makes me twitchy. That shouldn't happen in professional photos. It's such an easy fix, especially when they are already photoshopping.

Thank you both. Hasn't been an easy year - she had a 5 year old daughter. We are making new memories with her, and constantly reminding her of all the memories she created with her mom.

Having lost my sister last year after an illness, I have to say I see things a lot differently. My sister and I were extremely close, always together. I have no regrets for how we spent our lives before she passed away. She had her 2nd heart transplant last year...it was performed 4 hours from our hometown. The day she got the call to come for the surgery, I got in the car and went too. I didn't call my boss until I was nearly halfway there. They could have fired me on the spot and I wouldn't have cared. I was out of work for 3 weeks while my sister recovered. Again, my job was the least of my concerns. Being by my sisters bedside trumped anything. Two months later, she was re admitted to the same hospital, and once again I dropped everything to be with her. She slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness. I will never question those last few days or the weeks prior. I will never have regret that I wasn't with her as much as I could humanly be. I spent every moment with her that I could. Had we known sooner that she would only have months or weeks to live, I would have reacted the same and spent as much time as humanly possible with her and taking care of her. New jobs can be found. You can never get back time with a loved one. I empathize greatly with Alexandria. To have achieved a dream, only to face the unthinkable has to be terrible. I understand her decision because I've been there. My prayers are with her.

It was a contemporary style dance, so I'd guess it was just girls who were most technical and trained in that style. Most were show group, right? Except Milan?

I'm thinking Holly really thought she was safe when they showed her the list of clubs. She went "with Jenna". It reminds me of being in high school and my best friend and I each calling home and telling our parents we were spending the night with each other and staying out all night doing everything we weren't supposed to. She was caught and she after lying, she tried backpeddling.

I'm not sure idiot is fair. I'm more inclined to think sheltered and unaware is more accurate/appropriate.

Exactly. Kelli wasn't asking her to dig deep, she just wanted to her to give any small indication that she had some sort of relationship with these girls outside of training camp. "Some of us girls went and had a pedicure yesterday and Tara couldn't decide between pink or red polish." It didn't have to be information that revealed a great deal of information, she just wanted to know she was connecting with them somehow.