{"podcast":{"title":"Back to the Barre","slug":"back-to-the-barre-5485742","podcast_index_feed_id":5485742,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/63e7cb3476a4a4001004ca4e","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/415253","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/63e7cb3476a4a4001004ca4e/1694447845976-236805bb5a873da674dd557f36260b47.jpeg","author":"Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland","episode_count":222,"summary":"Come see us LIVE on tour in 2026! www.x1entertainment.com/bttb Head to social media to share your favorite moments from this episode. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backtothebarrepodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@backtothebarrepod Watch full episodes of Back to the Barre on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@officialbacktothebarre Send your questions to www.speakpipe.com/backtothebarre Join our Patreon to access ad-free episodes of Back to the Barre. Members also receive exclusive audio and video content and more! Visit www.patreon.com/backtothebarre to join. Rate, review and follow Back to the Barre on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart or wherever you like to listen. OG Dance Moms Christi ( https://www.instagram.com/christilukasiak or https://www.tiktok.com/@christilukasiak0 ) & Kelly ( https://www.instagram.com/kellylhyland or https://www.tiktok.com/@hyland.kelly ) take us back to the barre with this weekly podcast, recapping Dance Moms episodes and sharing never-before-heard behind the scenes stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-to-the-barre-5485742"},"episode":{"title":"The Threesome: A Producer Special!","slug":"the-threesome-a-producer-special","published_at":"2026-05-04T11:16:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-to-the-barre-5485742/the-threesome-a-producer-special","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-to-the-barre-5485742","url":"https://shows.acast.com/back-to-the-barre/episodes/69f854bba02215a877a19068","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/63e7cb3476a4a4001004ca4e/e/69f854bba02215a877a19068/media.mp3","summary":"Come see us live!! www.x1entertainment.com/bttb \"The funniest thing was we were in hell, but you guys had your own version of hell going on,\" Christi reflects to our very receptive panel of guests. This week we welcome to the Barre our favorite Dance Mom Producers: Annie, Erin and Chris! If it's Dance Moms goss you're looking for, there's no better place to start than right here. No ones made it through the Dance Moms grinder in quite the same way, they've all got stories to tell and boy do they have a lot to say when we get them all together. A fun twist now that so much time has passed is all of our guests have become parents themselves. So we want to know, how differently does it make them think about their time on the show? Do some moments seem a bit more cagey in hindsight? Would they have approached the work any differently? Speaking of work what was it like to actually work with Abby on a day to day basis? Was she really that difficult to work with (probably) and if so what's their craziest Abby story? Plus of course we had to ask them all about what it was like to produce some of the craziest s**t ever put on television. Chris was there during the walk to prison! He did the walk too but had to lug around equipment! There's just no end to the amount of stories they have to share. They've all gone on to have fairly broad careers in both reality TV and elsewhere, but Dance Moms will always be their mark on the culture, the thing they'll be asked about for the rest of their lives. So we'll just have to keep asking! Quotes “[Kira] was tough. She was basically not producible.\" (19:08-19:11 | Chris) \"Did any of you ask Abby after the fight like why was she trying to bite Kelly?\" (41:54-41:59 | Christi) “Such good war stories this show. I feel like some of my best memo…","meta_description":"Come see us live!! www.x1entertainment.com/bttb \"The funniest thing was we were in hell, but you guys had your own version of hell going on,\" Christi refl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5537,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/back-to-the-barre-5485742/episodes/the-threesome-a-producer-special/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-to-the-barre-5485742/the-threesome-a-producer-special.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}