The routine, performed by dancer Ashlan Scheide, 11, included a shocking sequence in which the young dancer mimicked that she had been strangled.
Have YOU got a story? Email. READ MORE: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.
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. 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 the episode, Ashlan was seen going over the routine with her dance teacher Gloria Hampton.'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.
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