Born to Dance (with Blake McGrath)
Leave It On The Dance Floor
Abby Lee Miller
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We’re thrilled to welcome award-winning dancer, choreographer, recording artist, and mentor Blake McGrath to Leave It On The Dance Floor! A powerhouse who has worked with icons from Britney Spears to Janet Jackson, Blake continues to inspire the next generation of dancers around the world.
In this episode, Abby and Blake reflect on how their paths first crossed and share stories from their long history in the entertainment industry. They dive into Blake’s early dance beginnings, performing alongside legends, competing and later judging on So You Think You Can Dance, and choreographing for many different big name brands with his viral social media presence. .
Tune in next week for Part 2, where Blake opens up about starting his family, his marriage to Taylor Andler, and being honored at the 2025 Industry Dance Awards. From personal milestones to future dreams, this is a conversation no dance fan will want to miss. He also shares behind-the-scenes memories from Dance Moms with Cathy’s Candy Apples and discusses his mentorship program, helping dancers build confidence and sustainable careers.
Join us each week as we rewatch and recap your favorite moments/episodes of Dance Moms, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, Abby’s Studio Rescue, and Mad House, spilling behind-the-scenes secrets, exclusive never-before-seen content, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, get on the dance floor. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome back to leaving on the dance floor. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome back to leaving on the dance floor. |
| 0:15.0 | I have a special guest for you. |
| 0:17.0 | This is a professional working dancer, this guy. It's what I always talk about. You know, |
| 0:24.3 | there's great dancers, there's competition winners, but then there's employable working dancers. |
| 0:31.3 | And I am so proud to introduce one of them, a big time one. Yes. This is Mr. Blake McGrath. Say hi, Blake. I'm so excited to be here. Hi, |
| 0:42.5 | guys. I'm just so excited because I don't think people know how much history we have together. So, |
| 0:48.3 | I'm so happy that you asked me to do this. I have no idea what you've prepared in those |
| 0:52.7 | questions, but I'm sure there's some good stuff. So I'll let you take it away. Come on. Come on. Like, you know, I'd go off script. It doesn't really matter. Okay. I'm ready to have some fun with you. All right. So let's talk about how we met, which I can't remember. I do. Okay. Let's go. Oh my gosh. Okay. So all of your girls were always the title winners. So I was from Canada. Abby was training all of the divas, like literally her kids. I was obsessed with. Well, they were pretty girls. They were gorgeous, yes, but they were also incredible dancers. This is way before the TV show, guys. And I don't think a lot of you, I mean, some of you watching, hopefully a lot of you watching, knows what Mr. Dance of America was and Teen Miss Dance of America, Dance Masters of America. Yes. So that was my big start. Which I was thrown out of, but we'll get that. That was the dance awards of back in the day. It was. It was. It was classy. It was professional. And it was the |
| 1:46.0 | creme de la creme. It was the creme de la creme. And so I would win my regional title and then every |
| 1:51.3 | year or every other year was in New York. Was it every year? Every other year in New York. So |
| 1:57.1 | I knew you would be there and I knew all of your girls would be there. |
| 2:01.3 | And so I was obsessed and, of course, super inspired. |
| 2:04.4 | But every time that I got to see you, you had clearly everybody knows you |
| 2:09.9 | the larger than life personality. |
| 2:11.6 | But you were so welcoming and so heartwarming to me. |
| 2:15.3 | And I remember like the first time getting off stage. And you just |
| 2:18.9 | like praised me so much. And you were like, you have so much talent. You have so much potential. |
| 2:24.2 | And I'm just so excited to see how far. You were, you were just so loving. Yes. Yeah. And I remember |
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