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Dance Moms

2011–2019LifetimeDocumentary

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A Pittsburgh dance studio, the children in it, and the mothers watching from behind the glass.

Dance Moms opens with a main title sequence of 12 seconds.

At 12 seconds, it opens well under the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Lifetime in 2011, when Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva were also on the network.

1 sequence235th most looked up of 760 in the 2010sIMDb ↗Official site ↗
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