'Dance Moms: A New Era' Performs JonBenet Ramsey Routine

[@SydneyAlese]

Absolutely gross. Every adult involved in getting a little girl to do that should be deeply ashamed!

[@phoenix2.7]

How is it gross? It’s just a dance

[@Rockaway-v6k]

@@phoenix2.7 they made her pretend to be a child who actually got murdered and played it out just for claps

[@alicianelson1252]

​@phoenix2.7 this was a real person who suffered real pain possibly at the hands of someone she knew and she never got justice

[@queenel3574]

this is a good thing because they’re keeping her name alive because this new generation doesn’t know who she is. They’re telling her story.❤

[@SydneyAlese]

@@queenel3574 they literally choreographed her pretending to strangle herself… um if that’s not distasteful I don’t know what is. There’s respectful ways to tell someone’s story and honor them- this isn’t it.

[@GorgieClarissa]

people can't just let this little girl rest in peace

[@80s-Fan]

That was totally disrespectful.

[@ezmademarchi2300]

agreed

[@bluetwinkiesaregood]

Disgusting

[@phoenix2.7]

How

[@spiritgirl229]

She was killed and the dance teacher was asking a child to act like she was being strangled

[@kaikailvers]

@@phoenix2.7she wanted ashlinn to act like a small girl (abt her age and younger) to get strangled like how she died by being strangled.

[@evangeline77x]

That adult telling a child to research and learn "everything" about Jonbenet is sooooo messed up. No child should be exposed to that kind of trauma, let alone pressured into a interpretive dance about a child brutally murdered in her own home. That's several bridges too far. This series needs to be canceled, that studio needs to be shuttered and those adults all need to be investigated. Appalling.

[@doxoxo779]

Not really. They’re told to research for every dance. It’s how you get into character. She probably already knew what happened to her.

[@Mildly_crazy]

@@doxoxo779 There is a vast vast vast difference between learning character like say Juliet from Romeo and Juliet or even say a real person like Marilyn Monroe. this is telling a little girl to research a cold case murder where she not only a similar age but is doing the same activity

[@HannibalLecter18]

@@Mildly_crazyyeah well Abby kinda did this with her girls and I don’t believe there was much controversy about it, so it’s kinda strange to see it now

[@daydreaminavenue]

Jonbenet isn’t just a “murder victim” she was an innocent six year old who was brutally killed and her murder still hasn’t been solved after two decades.

[@therediknow]

They think the killer was Gary Olivia so I think it may have been solved

[@a.l.y.a.m.e.d486]

​@@therediknow they revealed about 18 or 19 years ago that they found shoe imprints in the ground near the basement window outside but unfortunately the police dismissed it and the imprints later belonged to a guy that told his friend what he done but he killed himself before police could interview him..Her case could have been solved if people did there job right. They said her case investigation was bloched from the beginning unfortunately.

[@therediknow]

@@a.l.y.a.m.e.d486 So it’s not Gary Olivia or the killer is dead?

[@a.l.y.a.m.e.d486]

@@therediknow there was a guy thar was arrested on it but it turned out he was making it up. But the actual killer might be the one that belong to the shoe imprints outside the basement window. And he's dead. If only they could have gotten access to his body and had pulled DNA off him they could have possibly solved her case years ago if he did indeed do it.

[@therediknow]

@@a.l.y.a.m.e.d486 Oh okay, thank you for telling me

[@ahlamm-6141]

She choreographed a strangulation in the dance and thought “hell yeah”

[@721rena]

Hell is exactly where she’s going thats for sure

[@721rena]

@maddoxyi5215 I'm not talking about the little girl 🤦🏾‍♀️who choreographed the dance?? Who's been verbally abusive to little girls for decades?? Think!

[@avajessica7]

Distasteful

[@phoenix2.7]

How

[@nache61]

@@phoenix2.7wdym how watch the video

[@BenTrue75]

Why celebrate a child murder dance, just no!

[@Ajay.Plants]

It’s not being celebrated, it’s telling a story

[@721rena]

@@Ajay.Plants and its despicable and shameful

[@Ajay.Plants]

@@721rena I disagree.

[@alicianelson1252]

​@Ajay.Plants a true story that shouldn't be told in this fashion do a dance about a fictional girl who was murdered of that's your thing but respect the dead

[@justmejenny7986]

That was truly disturbing. As a parent; how could you let your little girl perform that?

[@AntiJeffreyMcCrayCommunity]

A child shouldn’t be researching that topic. So foul.

[@aftonair]

How could anyone think that it would be acceptable to ask a child to do something like this? Completely inappropriate. Where was this childs mother when all of this was happening?

[@phoenix2.7]

The mother was in the stands where else would she be

[@denislatifi6464]

Just despicable…

[@viziblestripez]

I did a college essay of her murder just last semester, so I think I'm pretty well informed on the whole thing. This is sick.

[@jasonotto4436]

How could she this is extremely disrespectful, she was a little girl who was murdered so making a dance from that story is extremely just straight up disgusting

[@blueturtle3623]

The terrifying irony of the dancer being on display in the same way JonBenet was is chilling.

[@Illphaqup]

LEAVE THAT GIRL ALONE!!!!! This is absolutely DISGUSTING!

[@bouthatlfeforeal]

So disgusting and sickening! This show should be canceled!

[@swallowedinthesea11]

Should be canceled, but it's a huge money maker which the network loves!

[@jsijret3947]

@@swallowedinthesea11this version hasn’t even been on air long enough to be referred to as a “huge money maker”

[@bouthatlfeforeal]

@@swallowedinthesea11 We should be bombarding the advertisers social media platforms with 🤮💩emojis!!! Traumatizing a kid with the reenactment of what happened to Jon Benet Ramsey, is a new LOW!! Trying to normalize crimes against children, disguised as art is another level of evil 😈and should have no place in a child’s mind. We MUST PROTECT OUR children!!

[@jimmyhogan3997]

We’re is this playing at 😮 so sad😢

[@bouthatlfeforeal]

@@jimmyhogan3997 TLC channel

[@theCounzler]

Who sat around and thought that was a good idea?! How despicable.

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

If Dance Moms a new era was anything like the original dance moms, it would have been the producers who had regular meetings with the dance teachers and the choreographers. The producers had the final say in the original show so my guess is that the producers made Glo give the dance assignments to the girls.

[@axmend2]

Isn't this a form of child abuse? Asking her to research a childs murder at her age. Who does that? Being exposed to that at such a young age. She probably has nightmares of someone entering her room at night. Disgusting so sad.

[@snappiepappie9899]

You have probably never seen a Dance Moms episode before if you think this is child abuse...

[@snappiepappie9899]

They also made the same girl do a dance about fentanyl overdose while her cousin had died from that cause. She had to crawl in a body bag. Her teammate's brother had also died 2 years earlier and her mom had to write her daughters name on her body bag 😭

[@LilyGoth]

​@@snappiepappie9899 For real? Wtf?

[@liliannapassut2246]

That's a little dramatic. I knew about jonbenet ramsey practically my whole life

[@randomaccount2784]

I knew about the story of JonBenet way younger than this girl so I wouldn’t consider it child abuse but yes, this dance is extremely disrespectful and I’ve tried watching the new Dance Moms and I’m getting an even worse ick from it than from original Dance Moms. I feel really bad for Ashlan though. I only watched one episode but she had some back issues but despite that, she was an incredibly talented dancer but Glo wouldn’t even acknowledge it because she couldn’t do her left side aerial which is really stupid

[@snappiepappie9899]

If you think this is bad... They made the same little girl do a dance about fentanyl overdose, her cousin had died from it and she had to watch her friends crawl into body bags. She was sobbing on stage. Her 8 year old teammates brother had died 2 years earlier in a car crash and her mom had to write her name on the bodybag...

[@ashm415]

That's disgusting.

[@makrhodes3391]

You could tell the little girl felt uncomfortable and that's all that should have mattered in that moment

[@snappiepappie9899]

yup, she had to do another dance about fentanyl overdose, her cousin had died from it. she was SOBBING on stage. And her teacher was like "She portrays emotions so well!"

[@raea3588]

@@snappiepappie9899 They did one where the instructor spoke openly to them about her first child being born stillborn and she explained to all the dancers, as young as 8 years exactly what that means. They brought in a medium to talk to them. A little girl whose brother died a year before, was asked to portray a dead spirit!

[@LilyGoth]

​@@snappiepappie9899 Toxic TV series.

[@LilyGoth]

​@@raea3588 Gross, disgusting TV Series. Never watched. Never will. Comments have shocked & disappointed.

[@kaitlynrausch678]

Why a new dance mom show

[@yanderefangirl8317]

I know, right?

[@Worm-sg4td]

money

[@_Creativestar55]

Just another cash grab.

[@kaitlynrausch678]

FR

[@NickleForYourThoughts]

dance moms shouldnt even be a thing, what weird people watch that stuff

[@xoxolovechristielynn]

This is wildly disgusting. Like, it’s not even up for debate that this is insanely inappropriate. I understand sometimes when people do things in poor taste, that they may just not have been aware or hadn’t really thought something through, but _THIS_ ? This isn’t even remotely understandable. Wow.

[@JESUSAVES-n9i]

😭😭😭Rip kid. I didn’t have any kids when JonBenét was murdered and I was young and pretty sad that this Beautiful intelligent kid was murdered. I hope and pray the killer is arrested one day

[@user-animallover]

This is wrong

[@prankgirl9112]

This is so wrong on every level. How is this show not canceled?

[@arrowverselover100]

Dance Mom's in general is just toxic. Idk how anyone can watch those little girls suffer.

[@anthonyorr4036]

This isn’t up for debate . This is wildly disgusting . Having a child look up the details of a murdered child and then act it out is beyond disgusting . Anybody who doesn’t have an issue with this needs their head examined .

[@yanderefangirl8317]

So how long until JonBenet’s family sues?

[@SelenaKnight-n7h]

They should sue their own family member.

[@phoenix2.7]

What would they sue for someone dancing?

[@saraswinerton7202]

I don’t think politics belongs here

[@_Creativestar55]

Her family should definitely sue!!

[@KrDizzy14]

Sue for what, exactly? It's distasteful & disrespectful for sure, but this is not actionable in a court.

[@toogie6267]

Shut this show down immediately!!!! Investigate the mom doing this to her girl!!!

[@debgresham4398]

I agree with you. The network needs to shut it down.i hope people was so disgusted with this they will try to get it off the air..and I thought Abbey Lee Miller was pysco.

[@crazycatlady-qy4pn]

That is so disgusting! 🤢 Why was show rebooted in the first place?

[@sinead187]

Poor little JonBenet Ramsey...Hoping to see someone charged in my lifetime... Brother dearest, maybe.

[@Illphaqup]

Thats the running rumor. The brother was jealous of Jon bennet because of her dancing and the attention she was getting from both mom and dad.

[@Nakiatakai]

I still say her mother accidentally did it and covered it up cause the ransom amount was the exact amount that the husband would have gotten for his Christmas bonus. But if and it's a big if her mother did do it she already dead too from cancer I think.

[@faerie_ford]

​@@Nakiatakaidefinitely the brother the boy shows no empathy no feelings is stoic. I believe he did it and the parents covered it up cause they lost one child they didn't want to lose another.

[@teovu5557]

@@faerie_ford it was aliens. Totally proven by evidence on the History channel.

[@poohbear4515]

So in her mind, the best for them is to have one of the dancers play as JonBenet and end the dance with her being strangled to death. Why would they remake the show that not only showed awful parenting, but major child abuse and more??

[@emilylopez6409]

They’re disrespecting the dead!

[@MrTabitha09]

She was never kidnapped

[@ALDC.kennedy]

This dance isn’t all too bad, it’s the strangling part. That’s just completely disrespectful and gross. Yes, I feel like her story should be shared and it’s a good dance idea, but that’s not the way to portray it.

[@doodles3075]

Hopefully this dance company have been banned from competing in other competitions. Not so sure social services/ cps shouldn't be involved. This is disgusting, the fact the mother has allowed this too. I think the network needs to pull this tutor/coach

[@Lilyvm_]

Sometimes, dance carries a lot of disturbing themes. This was uncomfortable and unnecessary, but if you think they should be banned from dancing at comps, you clearly do not know anything 🤦🏽‍♀️ studios carry several choreographers so you can't just ban an entire company

[@Newyears14]

This is a disaster 😐

[@mchaberry6140]

the comments helppp- yall did not say anything when brynn did the black dahlia dance 😭

[@UrFavDancer29]

REAL THAT WHAT IM SAYING😭😭😭😭

[@MIGZ_7834]

And Kendall Natalie wood

[@IH8YALLL]

Kidnapped and murdered? She was killed in her own home!!

[@bhigs7273]

Shame on her. What is wrong with you that you would do this in reference to jon bonet

[@allfame95]

I really don't understand why they allow (Dance Moms) that kind of show. Their obviously sexualizes children on their show

[@editsbybrookiee]

so we won't talk abt "Where have all the children gone", the lizzie borden one, and 2 of them did a dance with pig blood???

[@LilyGoth]

Never watched & never watched so didn't know. Maybe over 18s doing historic, dark themes is okay. This is weird & creepy. Young girl didn't want to research the murder, it should've been stopped then.

[@UrFavDancer29]

@@LilyGothwhen they did “where have all the children gone” they were all like 9,10, 11 and they “killed themselves” in that dance and Abby told them all about what they were doing a dance about and most of the moms were questioning it but yet they still allowed their kids to do the dance So really not much different from this

[@sherrivincent809]

Abby screamed at JoJo who was around 7 years olds at the time to watch a rated R horror movie 🎥 and proceeded to dump a gallon of blood on her head for the role!

[@Da-joker41]

Just sickening 😡😡😡😡 let that poor baby rest in peace

[@arthurread9164]

Yes I agree,but don't blame Ashlan she only did what the adults in charge of Dance Moms told her to do.Ashlan looks to be a talented dancer - another Maddie Ziegler.

[@tyroneweedon]

That's way too far. It really opens old wounds. Disgusting.

[@MeganKoumori]

Thought One: WTF?! Thought Two: How did this make it to air? Thought Three:...Wait, "Dance Moms" is still on?

[@sherrivincent809]

The 5 stages of grief at once

[@Blueeyedsoul1986]

This is why I don’t watch dance moms

[@daipeach3675]

That’s extremely DISTURBING and disrespectful

[@AudreyC379]

Wow, this is in really bad taste. The adults behind this should have been fired immediately.

[@prettylonnn]

Yall must ain’t see the old dance moms

[@Peppermintgrl4life]

That’s very disrespectful!

[@TheGrayton2000]

Leave the dead alone.

[@shehound1778]

Abby was “extreme “but I don’t think she would’ve done that 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[@FinaAmuzu-ir5tl]

Have you watched where have all the children gone?

[@ChelSierra_Remly]

The show did it for the controversy. It gave them the attention they need to stay on air. Just don't watch, and let the ratings put it in the dumpster where it belongs.

[@LilyGoth]

Never watched, never will 👍

[@ChelSierra_Remly]

@@LilyGoth - Ditto.

[@shortyklee]

That's messed up

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

She did a great job! Art is meant to invoke emotion.

[@vivianchepngetich1972]

What! Who taught her the routine,a despicable person

[@prankgirl9112]

Every single person involved in that decision is disgusting. Including the Mom for allowing it.

[@laurab9518]

As true crime fan I do not agree at all. So disappointed and so disrespectful of the dead and what she went through

[@Jay123hollis]

Dance mom's has always been creepy. This just takes the cake.

[@vickicupp418]

I smell a lawsuit coming

[@bax2603]

That's insane wow , shut that show down for this

[@peaizzme5712]

Omg this was demonic as hell to ask that bby girl to do that!!👿 The fact that her Mom allowed this says a whole lot about her!!🤬 I'd sue ALL of their aszezzzz fr!! 💰💰😡

[@markiesway]

How is this disrespectful? Shes going out there and honoring someone and performing and telling a story, dance moms has always done themes like this it’s nothing new.

[@FDR-ww6xz]

And to think this TV show defends its inappropriate actions.

[@Tangerineluvr9]

It’s so weird and disrespectful, idk how people find that normal

[@debbiecooper1677]

that poor kid having to do that.

[@LilyGoth]

Hope the young girl sues mother, network & choreographer asa she can.

[@mireyahernandez5041]

Disaster 😢

[@Spellbound_Rose]

I mean, we already saw this with the “Where Have All the Children Gone?” dance, with Nia. So it’s not exactly a new thing… pretty sure Ashlan is 11/12, not 9/10 like Nia was at the time. Anyway, I would be WAY more worried about Nia than Ashlan.

[@Ashbrash1998]

And Dance moms starts again with controversy.

[@briannarodriguez9719]

Who teaches this dance to little kids? There should never be a show like Dance Moms to begin with. I hope it gets canceled now. They made her death look like a joke

[@Jadexies]

What?!?! Absolutely NOT okay.

[@a.l.y.a.m.e.d486]

I don't think Abby Miller would have done something like this if it was the original Dance Mom's.

[@avalynyost1498]

Yes she did for the national number where have all the children gone in season one she had the girls act like they were committing suicide. Nia was choking herself. Chloe stabbed her self and Paige jumped offstage like she jumped off a bridge. I believe Abby would do a number like this for a win

[@Ipetam]

Pageants disgust me.

[@michaelanthony3270]

This is horrible. I hope the show gets canceled.

[@AA-uw7cq]

Y’all complained about Abby, but sometimes the next person is even worse. I don’t wanna hear y’all complaining about Miss Glo now. Y’all asked for this.

[@madigan1323]

That they would try to profit from the murder of that poor child is disturbingly grotesque and repugnant!

[@rebeccacrossman3867]

The fact that girls parents allowed her to dance to that is sick.

[@idkwhattopostt0]

Not age appropriate. This coach is worse than Abby telling a literal child to dance about a dead girl..

[@Blessed-2-b-a-Hembree]

The young girl is too young to be told about the details. When did parents stop protecting children’s innocence?

[@rebeccachapman7827]

This is the sad sick world we live in and the disgusting people that we have around us. Hopefully no one lets her around their kids anymore. And I really hope that the show is canceled. There’s no reason for it to go on obviously they had really bad intentions.

[@xoxojustno6971]

Thats awful

[@777denmark]

Why would they do such a thing! So disturbing!

[@FizzleFrazle]

Oh thats not right

[@macpaige51790]

This is INSANE. The disrespect.

[@KekeChannel0215]

When Ms. Glo told Ashlyn to do this dance based on Jonbenet, an innocent 6 year old girl who was murdered inside her own home I was terrified. That’s so horrifying. It gave me chills. Her case is a worst nightmare. Children shouldn’t be exposed to this. Jonbenet also didn’t get the justice she deserves and it’s been years since the horrifying case. Also I’m wondering why would her father go straight to the room where she was 🤔 ? That sounds kind of suspicious to me.

[@jseizetheday169]

This is sick. Absolutely sick and this woman should be fired from the show, it's not okay to do this.

[@julieheiss7758]

Absolutely disgusting!!!

[@danielbaker4361]

A Minor Demonstrating an UNSOLVED MURDER for TV?!?! Is That Even Legal??? I mean on real TV not a Movie??

[@totallyyyobsessedd]

sorry yall but yall do realize that dance moms the og did things also like lizzy borden and more scarier dances? yall need to chill

[@Rockaway-v6k]

She’s a grown adult she should’ve known better

[@pamela6507]

Wtf. This isn't normal not at all

[@liyahzionzna136]

absulutly disrespectful

[@Blueeyedsoul1986]

Totally disrespectful…..ashamed at the mom and not the girl

[@kathleen2939]

This shows still going?

[@_blue_lunar_]

its a reboot not even the same cast or teachers

[@sherrivincent809]

This is terrible! The poor girl even expressed that this role made her uncomfortable but was forced to perform it anyway! Shame on the company and her parents for making a mockery over an innocent little girl getting brutally murdered! 😢😢😢 Rest In Peace to little Jobenet may god bless your soul and help find your killer🕊

[@weirdo5424]

Why couldn’t she just do a fun tribute dance to JonBenet instead of reenacting her murder? Like what Abby choreographed for her mom, broadway baby, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou etc.. Abby may be an evil woman but at least she has some morals when it comes to death or murder!

[@sydneyclement9951]

What the hell? Who thought having a child reenact a child's murder was a good idea?

[@graciesinclair305]

EVERYONE WHO HAS TO DO WITH THAT ROUTINE SHOULD BE FIRED