Square Dance The Next Step

Previously on The Next Step...

What did I say about talking to each other?

Is that a love letter?

This love letter is in direct violation of the 30 pirouette

agreement.

No more communication whatsoever.

I went from J-Troupe to A-Troupe.

Sometimes I feel like people still think I'm a J-Trouper,

so I have to work that much harder to prove myself.

What is this?

Riley - she seems pretty uptight.

She just needs to loosen up a little bit.

That's the great thing about you - you're the sensible one.

But maybe that's not who I want to be any more.

After James caught Eldon and I passing love notes,

he made it really clear that we're not allowed to speak to each other.

But James never said nothing about miming.

SHE MOUTHS

OK. This communication thing has gone awry.

Hey.

The courier just arrived,

which means it's a letter from Internationals.

And I think we're all pretty excited to see what it's going to say.

Seeing another International letter is exciting but

also nerve-racking because we have no idea what it says in there.

What do you think the next dance is?

Well, we know we have a two to seven person dance.

We know we have a duet. Semifinals. Finals.

So why don't we start working on an eight person dance -

just to be prepared.

No. Not another dance.

Why make up nine different dances

when we could be cleaning the ones that we really need?

What if we need to prepare this and we don't have it?

-Exactly.

-Internationals has been throwing us curveballs,

so I think we should be ready for them.

We can have as many dances as we want,

but if they're not good, we're not going to advance anyway.

'I'm already staying here late enough.'

Add another dance unnecessarily, it's just not going to work.

Guys. Hey. Give it a chance.

But what if we have to have it prepared...?

Exactly.

'The team are fighting and over-reacting'

and I know the perfect thing to do to loosen them up.

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

I see Ella go into Kate's office and I need to know what she's up to.

Uh, what are you doing?

Just playing a little prank. You in?

THE OTHERS CONTINUE TO ARGUE

Yeah. I'm in.

Good. Let's go.

'Tensions are running high right now,'

so maybe a prank will lighten everyone up.

# We...

# We are gonna show the world

# Everything we're made of

# We're gonna tear the roof off this place

# Stand up. #

Right. How good are you at opening envelopes?

'Stealing the Internationals letter alone was scary enough for me.

'Now we are tampering with it and messing with everyone.'

And it's making me nervous because I never do this - ever!

Why are we doing this again?

Your studio is way too uptight. It needs to loosen up.

Yeah, I'm kind of the poster child for that one.

I have to just learn to let loose and just have fun with it.

What's in it?

Just hotel accommodation stuff, so it's not important.

'Riley and I are going to add

'a letter to the Internationals envelope'

saying The Next Step have to make up this really odd kind of dance.

Something old-fashioned and weird.

-Square dancing.

-Perfect.

-OK.

-We're going to get the whole studio to do a square dance.

OK, so we're changing this up. "Dear The Next Step..."

'I don't know if it's going to work or

'if it's just going to make everyone more stressed,

'but I'm sure it'll be fine.'

I mean, seriously, how much trouble can we get in with a square dance?

'This whole thing is making me very nervous

'because once we put that envelope on the desk,'

that's it. The prank is in motion.

There's no turning back.

-Oh, that was sick, bro. That was sick.

-Thanks, man.

'I'm in the music room right now watching Eldon do some tricks.'

He's just so amazing and so sick.

I just can't wait till I can do those tricks.

Oh - how long did it take to learn that?

It only took me, like, a week.

-A week?

-Yeah.

-Wow. That's a amazing.

I'd never be able to do that in a week.

Well, I remember when I was your age,

it took me a long time to learn things too.

It gets easier, though. Don't worry.

Hey, man. Don't stress about it. You just moved up from J-troupe.

'Eldon's comment really makes me

'realise I really need to prove myself to be in A-troupe.'

I need to get to Eldon's level

so people see me differently and see me as an A-Trouper.

Miss Kate has a letter, and she's about to read what

me and Ella wrote on it.

And I'm so excited to see everyone's reactions.

OK, well, apparently, we all need to learn how to square dance

because that is what this next round is.

A square dance. Different.

Square dance?

Wow.

Internationals is in Miami this year,

so maybe the square dance is considered a traditional dance

from the host country.

I love seeing everyone's face when they hear it's a square dance.

Yeah. 'I'm a little surprised'

that it's square dancing.

It's a bit of a strange style of dance to compete at such a

high level, but it's Internationals.

They can throw anything at you.

I occasionally square dance.

'Every Saturday night,'

me and my mom go out to the square dancing hub.

It's one of my favourite hobbies.

OK. This is going to take forever.

So, let's get to it. Start brainstorming.

I want to see something by the end of the day.

End of the d...?

Right. Let's get to it. Come on.

Square dance partner?

-Of course.

-Nice.

I want Riley to be my partner because she's so reliable and hard-working.

If I work with her, I know we'll get the square dance down pat.

Ever since Cierra made it into A-Troupe,

I've been waiting a lot.

Her rehearsals end a lot later than mine do and

my mom's only going to make one trip, so that means I have to wait.

-Hey.

-Yes. We can go.

Change of plans.

We have to stay to rehearse a square dance for Internationals tonight.

A square dance? Really? Is Internationals being held in a barn?

You can come watch.

Yeah. I think I'll just stay and do my homework. Thanks.

'I'm really not very happy about having to stay here longer, but...'

what can I do?

I'm just so stressed out with everything.

I mean, there's so much to do.

'At first, I thought this was going to be really fun and kind of easy'

but now, I'm just kind of stressed about it.

We need costumes. We need hats.

We need boots.

-Neckties!

-Neckties.

Neckties?

And we need music.

Guess you're right.

'I didn't know square dancing was so hard.'

But the more Giselle talks about how hard it is, the more stressful

she makes it seem.

What kind of emotion do we bring to the dance?

What do we convey when we're dosey-doe-ing.

Ella? We need to come clean.

Seeing Giselle and West freak out,

it's not what I expected this to be.

I wanted everyone to have fun with this,

and it doesn't seem like anyone is.

Everyone's stressed about everything.

Trust me. It will be funny. Just relax and enjoy it.

OK? It'll be fine.

'Ella seems so calm about this whole thing

'and she seems to think it's all going to work out.'

Maybe I just need to trust her a little bit.

'I'm working on a lot of tricks right now.'

I'm trying to get them to the next level. Down pat perfect.

I really need to prove myself to the team

and show them that I'm worthy to be on A-Troupe.

Noah looks like he's having a hard time,

so I just want to go in and make sure everything's OK.

You're getting the hang of it.

Thanks.

I didn't know you could do that.

I haven't really got it down yet.

Well, the rest of your team is working on the square dance.

Shouldn't you be with them.

-What square dance?

-The Internationals dance.

'I don't even know about it.'

I thought I was part of the team but no-one frankly told me.

I mean, I've been in here all day practising.

I'll go in a few minutes. I just want to get this down.

-OK.

-All right.

I appreciate Richelle's help,

but right now, I've got a lot of work to do

and I need to prove myself.

All right guys, so we're going to move on to the basic do-si-do.

The do-si what?

The do-si-do. Don't worry.

-You'll learn it. It's basic.

-Just turn to your partner.

'Michelle is leading the rehearsal

'because she has some really good ideas'

when it comes to square dance choreography.

And now all you are going to do is go to the left of your partner,

so the right shoulder.

And you're just going to plies starting on your left foot.

Five, six, seven, eight.

The left.

'It's not going well at all.'

I just don't get it.

Steph! Steph! To the left.

'This rehearsal is a disaster.'

Stephanie and I have bumped into each other probably five

times already and it's been two minutes.

I think this is going swimmingly.

No, it's not.

I'm a mess. I don't know what that was.

No, it's fine. You'll be fine.

Hey, hey, guys. Why so stressed? Just relax. Have fun.

It's supposed to be fun.

How is this fun?

It's a disaster.

This is not just some dance for fun.

This is an Internationals routine that we need.

We need at least another hour of rehearsal.

I can't stay for another hour. I got to go.

OK. Do what you have to do, but we need to stay and practice.

'We are nowhere near ready, and she has to go?'

I just don't understand where her priorities are.

When is someone going to tell her that this is Internationals?

This girl leaves every day.

Now everyone is so upset with Michelle

because she can't stay for a fake dance.

-Yo, I really don't get what this whole...what's it called?

-Flutter?

-Flutter wing?

-Flutter wheel.

-Flutter wheel.

-Flutter wheel.

Right. Reverse foot... I don't know what it is.

Right person in with forearm, then left to opposite right hand,

then turn and reverse and turn, then reverse.

I totally don't get it.

James, can I talk to you for a minute?

-Yeah.

-'I never meant for this to be stressful.

'I meant for this to be fun'

and for everyone to let loose.

And it's doing the complete opposite of that.

Maybe James will have some good advice.

-I have a secret that I need some advice on.

-OK.

This whole square dancing thing is actually not

a part of Internationals.

Ella and I made it up just so the team could loosen up

and have fun, but I'm stressing

because everyone else is stressing about it.

I just need your advice on how to let go and not worry about it.

James pulls pranks all the time.

If anyone can help me loosen up, he can.

Back up. You're telling me

this square dancing is not in Internationals at all.

And that you and Ella made it up?

Yeah...funny, right?

That's so unlike Riley. What is she doing?

Yeah, that's funny. Except I could be in band practice.

Or we could be working on our duets. Or our semifinals routine.

Or our finals routine.

-OK. You're missing the point.

-No. That's exactly the point.

We all have so much else to be worrying about.

And she does this?

Wow. You are over-reacting.

Riley. Listen. I don't have much time.

So, I don't know what you think you're doing wasting it.

His time is important? How about my time?

I spend most of it waiting around for him.

Wow. You know what. I'll figure this one out on my own.

Don't even worry about it.

'I'm very shocked at James' reaction right now.'

I really thought James would understand.

Yo, guys. I just remembered.

I got band practice.

You know, right now, I just want to get out of here.

And I'm not wasting any more time doing this silly little prank.

What about the square? Square dance?

This has gone on too far.

There's tensions beginning to grow between everyone

and no-one's having fun.

I'm having fun.

You know what I mean.

I thought we were finally making progress.

-No progress.

-You can't turn back now.

So you'll just have to let it work out, OK?

You can't stop a roller-coaster halfway,

you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Ella and Riley. In my office now.

'Kate obviously knows about the square dance.

'Why else would she call me and Ella into her office?'

I hope that she goes easy on us.

So, tell me - how's the square dance routine going?

Really good.

Oh, really.

Perfect.

Because I found out that square dancing

is not a part of Internationals.

Really? Then why would they send the letter?

-I don't know. You tell me.

-I don't know.

There's been a lot of trash talk about square dancing recently

so they probably want to build up the popularity of square dance, yeah.

How can Ella be so calm?

Interesting, because it appears that this has been opened and resealed.

Wait. Tampering with mail

is a federal offence. I'm going to jail.

Yes, Riley.

If we confess right now, will you go easy on us?

No.

We need denim. And leather boots.

And buckles.

What for?

I love the idea. I totally get what you guys are doing.

I think it's so much fun and will bring the team together for sure.

'The team needs to lightens up a little bit.'

Internationals is so serious.

And I think we should just have a day where we do some fun,

awesome square dancing.

But...if we're going to do this, we must be full out.

-With cowboy hats.

-Yes.

-And neck ties.

-No. Too far.

-(Why would you do that?)

-I'm sorry.

Go get the costumes.

I can't believe we got off that easy.

I told you to just enjoy the roller-coaster ride.

So, what fantastic ride do you have for us next?

We have to get the costumes.

-OK.

-So, let's go.

'Ella was right. Everything is going to work out.'

I can't believe James over-reacted the way he did.

COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC PLAYS

'At first, the square dance was kind of touch and go.

'We weren't sure about the whole thing.'

But now it's kind of all coming together and it's really fun.

'I'm supposed to be partners with James for the square dance,

'but he bailed, so...'

..it's fine. If he doesn't want to have fun, then whatever.

James is missing out.

'I've been working all day to get the 5-40 straight-leg.'

And I finally did it.

James - I just got the 5-40 straight leg.

Noah - I need the room alone right now, all right.

'I just want to drum.'

Because when I drum, I don't think about anything else,

and I'm rattled right now.

Get out!

I'm kind of disappointed because I kind of wanted to show him

the trick I'd been working on for a long time.

'I can't get over how Riley lied to the team.

'And now everybody is in the studio wasting their time with this

'square dance.'

I'm so done with Ella and Riley's pranks.

Riley is not acting like the girl I fell in love with.

I don't want to be around her right now.

COUNTRY MUSIC CONTINUES

Could you, just for a minute, pretend that you're tired?

Because Riley looks lonely, and I want to dance with her.

Would you do that for me?

-Sure.

-OK. Let's go.

She's tired. I need a new partner.

Do you want to be my new partner.

-OK.

-OK. Let's go.

'It feels kind of nice to be included in the square dance.

'And it feels kind of nice to know

'Ella does care about me, and wants to be there for me.'

'I think we choreographed a pretty good square dance.

'It's actually kind of fun.'

I think the team really came together with this.

'Seems like everyone is having a lot of fun.

'Makes me realise it wasn't the greatest choice'

not joining them.

'Picking up the choreography of this square dance routine was

'really hard for me.

'But once I got it, it's actually really fun. And it's'

so great to be dancing with my team again.

MUSIC: I'm Coming Home by The Next Step

'It feels pretty good.

'It all kind of came together at the end.'

It worked out and it's actually pretty fun.

'I really want to be part of this team

'and I have no idea how to do that now.

'I feel like even more of an outsider than I did before.'

'Today was a big roller-coaster ride.'

But I didn't stop it, and I'm glad I didn't.

'I'm having more fun with Ella than I've had with James in a long time.'

And I'm afraid what that might mean.

# We...

# We are gonna show the world

# Everything we're made of

# We're gonna tear the roof off this place

# You can never fade us out

# Don't even ask to change it

# Everybody knows we own this dance. #