Dance Moms is an American dance reality series that debuted on Lifetime on July 13, 2011. Created by Collins Avenue Productions, it is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Abby Lee Dance Company, and follows children's early careers in dance show business, and their mothers. A spinoff series, Dance Moms: Miami, set in Miami at Victor Smalley and Angel Armas' dance studio, Stars Dance Studio, premiered on April 3, 2012, and was cancelled in September 2012 after eight episodes.
On October 10, 2012, Lifetime announced that they had picked up Dance Moms for a third season, consisting of 26 episodes, which debuted on January 1, 2013.
This tv show contains 38 potentially triggering events.
Some of the moms drink alcohol in the show and Abby makes some offhanded remarks to Christi in reference to her drinking at a competition, but alcohol is not being abused
In season 2 a girl from another studio falls out of an aerial and breaks her ankle, someone has a broken finger and someone else does a backflip and breaks her foot
Someone has a broken finger and someone else does a backflip and breaks her foot in season 2. In season 8 someone got her toe caught on some tape and rips her toenail
This is subjective to personal definitions of torture but child labor laws are broken and there are multiple scenes of children being physically abused
Abby says to the girls before going on stage “what if she fell 15 stories down and died huh” and they also mention falling down stairs in a competition but can’t remember which episode sorry
Many of the dances the young girls do are very mature and arguably sexual in nature. Plenty of skimpy costumes, including burlesque routines and one number where the girls wore flesh-colored outfits to appear nude