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Save Your Tears for the Pillow: Behind the Scenes of Dance Moms

The Doctors Office “Base Camp”

Right across the ALDC was a doctor’s office, and it was actually the “base camp” for the show. Production rented it out for all their filming needs. If you watch Dance Moms, you know the ALDC doesn’t have that much space. However, you probably didn’t realize how often they leave the studio and go to the doctor’s office.

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“That’s where our tutoring room was, that’s where a lot of the crew’s offices were, that’s where the interview rooms were, that’s where we ate lunch all the time,” Chloe Lukasiak explained in a YouTube video. The interview rooms’ look like costume closets, so I’m surprised. It seems that other than the physical dancing, everything took place in the office.