Dance Diaries: First Trophy, Fierce Passion — The Moment I Knew I’d Be a Choreographer
Leave It On The Dance Floor
Abby Lee Miller
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of our Dance Diaries series, Abby takes us back to where it all began: the first time she saw her own dancers stand on stage, heard her name called, and held her very first trophy. Still competing under her mother Maryen Lorrain Miller’s name, Abby gives an inside look at the early ALDC experience before it was even official. She describes the first routines she ever choreographed—simple but heartfelt—and how she pulled a few friends together to form her very first team. These early moments weren’t just about winning; they were the start of a journey that made her realize she was born not just to dance, but to lead.
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| 0:00.0 | Get up, get on the dance floor. |
| 0:03.1 | This is with my girls. |
| 0:05.6 | Leave it on the dance floor. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome back to leave it on the dance floor. |
| 0:15.7 | This is Dance Diaries Chapter 4. |
| 0:19.4 | Have you all been enjoying this? I have. It's like going, you know, |
| 0:24.0 | back in my diary of my life, secrets and maybe hopes, dreams that I had, that some came to fruition |
| 0:33.5 | and some didn't. You have to listen in here. |
| 0:38.8 | Okay, so chapter four. |
| 0:42.5 | Chapter four, everybody loves the dance diaries, Abby. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay. |
| 0:44.7 | Because you always tell the- I'm going to bring my actual diary so they can see. |
| 0:46.6 | Guys, we didn't plan right. |
| 0:48.1 | Abby has a diary. |
| 0:49.8 | We left it at the hotel. |
| 0:51.0 | We're actually here at Herdat Entertainment. |
| 0:53.3 | We're in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 0:55.3 | After this... |
| 0:55.6 | This is like our home home. This is our home home. That we haven't been to. Yes, we haven't been here. Our amazing network, Hurtat Entertainment. We're here shooting a bunch of content. This is actually our last recording of the day. You have been busy, busy, busy, busy doing a bunch. Yeah, so after this. |
| 1:10.2 | But I did find out a little bizz. |
| 1:12.5 | That heard out, I kept trying to figure out |
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