A dance routine on the series Dance Moms: A New Era has garnered controversy over a dance number based on late murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
The routine, performed by dancer Ashlan Scheide, 11, included a shocking sequence in which the young dancer mimicked that she had been strangled.
A number of people were outraged over a routine that was based off Ramsey, who was tragically found dead at the age of six-years-old at her Boulder, Colorado home in 1996.
The case, which garnered national attention, has not ever had any arrests linked to it, and the child’s murder hasn’t ever been solved.
In a sequence on the program, Ashlan’s mother Lisa told her, ‘You’re going to be a glitz pageant girl – that’s who JonBenét was, but then she got kidnapped and murdered.
A dance routine on the series Dance Moms: A New Era has garnered controversy over a dance number based on late murder victim JonBenét Ramsey. The routine, performed by dancer Ashlan Scheide, 11, included a shocking sequence in which the young dancer mimicked that she had been strangled.
A number of people were outraged over a routine that was based off Ramsey, who was tragically found dead at the age of six-years-old at her Boulder, Colorado home in 1996
Ashlan said she was unnerved by the information about the case surrounding Ramsey, but was willing to follow instruction to prevail in the competition.
‘This is really not for me, but I’ll do anything for the win,’ Ashlan said.
In the episode, Ashlan was seen going over the routine with her dance teacher Gloria Hampton.
A number of viewers were outraged by what they had seen on the series, which streams on Hulu.
‘I was like, “I’m sorry what” – I was like, “That’s ridiculous,”‘ Evie Nagy, a viewer of the program, told Inside Edition on Thursday.
Ashlan said she was unnerved by the information about the case surrounding Ramsey, but was willing to follow instruction to prevail in the competition
In a sequence on the program, Ashlan’s mother Lisa told her, ‘You’re going to be a glitz pageant girl – that’s who JonBenét was, but then she got kidnapped and murdered’
Hampton told Inside Edition about her background and creative process in a recent interview.
‘I’ve been doing this for years,’ Hampton told the outlet. ‘Last season we took 450 dances to a dance competition for five weeks and then at nationals. So I’m used to doing costuming for thousands of children and 450 dances.
She added, ‘Music, I am really inspired by music. I think it leads me to what I want to do. I hear something and I get inspired by that and I have a vision. It is interesting. I really have a vision in my head when I hear something that I like.’
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