The Australia Trip Got WAY WEIRDER | Back To The Barre with Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland
Back to the Barre
Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Christi and Kelly recap and react to Dance Moms season 5, episode 21 — “Dance Moms Down Under, Part 2.”
The Australia trip continues, but this episode feels different from a normal competition week. There is no usual pyramid-to-competition rhythm, and Christi and Kelly both point out that the whole thing feels a little off. Instead, the episode follows the team through Australia as Abby plans a Mad Max-inspired showcase routine for Maddie, Mackenzie, Kendall, and Kalani — while Nia and JoJo are once again left out of the main ALDC plan.
That divide becomes the center of the episode. Christi and Kelly react to Nia getting her own performance in Melbourne, Mikey flying in to work with her, and how different the energy feels when Nia is being built up instead of torn down. They also break down the fallout from the Ireland video mocking JoJo, the moms defending the girls’ apology, and JoJo admitting that even if you forgive something, you do not just forget it.
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| 0:00.0 | Baby, let's just dance, dance. |
| 0:02.0 | Let's just dance. |
| 0:03.0 | Baby, I just wanna dance, dance, dance, dance, dance. |
| 0:06.0 | Can you feel it? |
| 0:08.0 | Can you take it? |
| 0:10.0 | Can you come and freeze it? |
| 0:12.0 | All of this electricity. |
| 0:14.0 | Do it right now, |
| 0:16.0 | right now. |
| 0:17.0 | Turn up on you, |
| 0:18.0 | lock, |
| 0:19.0 | give me your electricity. Hello, little bitettes. Welcome back to the bar. It's bitch number one, Christy. And bitch no-toe Kelly. Look, we're in a new spot. We are. Hello, we're in Minnesota. Fun. I know. When we didn't bring any costumes with us. To put behind us. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, no. |
| 0:39.3 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:40.3 | No, we brought costumes for the show tonight. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.5 | But you were like, we don't have them. |
| 0:44.2 | We have them. |
| 0:44.9 | I met for behind us. |
| 0:46.2 | Okay. |
| 0:46.7 | We have a palm trees. |
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