List of The Next Step episodes

The following is the list of episodes to Family Channel original series The Next Step. The series premiered on March 8, 2013. All the titles for the episodes are also a reference to a song title.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired (Canadian dates)
			Season premiere	Season finale
	1	TBA	March 8, 2013 (March 8, 2013)	TBA
	2	TBA	March 2014 (March 2014)	TBA

Episodes

Season 1: 2013

The season started production in September 2013 and ended in March 2013. The second-half of season one will start airing in late-August 2013 or early-September 2013.

• Brittany Raymond, Bree Wasylenko, Jennifer Pappas, Tamina Pollack-Paris, Samantha Grecchi and Trevor Tordjman are present for all episodes so far.
• Alexandra Beaton, Victoria Baldesarra, Shamier Anderson, Isaac Lupien, Brennan Clost and Lamar Johnson are all absent for one episode so far.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original Airdate
1	1	"Get The Party Started"	Brian K. Roberts	Frank Van Keeken	March 8, 2013 (2013-03-08)
A-troupe and B-troupe dancers audition to earn a place in the A- troupe. We learn that to be in A-troupe dancers have to earn their place. When the third group of dancers are about to start their audition, an unknown dancer named Michelle who just moved from Wisconsin comes in. By this unexpected twist, last year's Dance Captain, Emily feels threatened by Michelle, having her A-troupe all planned out, and not wanting this "random girl" to mess that up. Her best friend Stephanie volunteers to go eavesdrop on Michelle and Kate, the studio owner, but Emily wants to go herself. An odd relationship is then revealed when we find out Eldon is head over heels in love with Emily but she doesn't like him, but Eldon asks her out every day before and after rehearsals. We then learn about the E-girls. They are a clique that had all the girls from A-troupe from last year. Emily is the leader, Tiffany, Stephanie, Giselle (known as Ellie),and Emily's younger sister Riley. Stephanie finds out on her phone that Michelle was named Miss national soloist, the rest of the E-girls are impressed, but Emily just calls her a diva and takes the phone. Michelle says in a confessional later that she does not want anyone to know about this, as she wants to just be a accepted for her. Title Reference: Get the Party Started by Pink
2	2	"Everybody Dance Now"	Brian K. Roberts	Frank Van Keeken and Chloe Van Keeken	March 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)
A Troupe includes: Emily, Stephanie, Tiffany, Chloe, Riley, James, West, Daniel, Eldon and Michelle. Giselle, unfortunately does not make it into A-troupe. Giselle is later kicked out of E-girls for not being in A-Troupe, as the rules are that all E-girls must be in A-troupe. Emily promises to get Giselle back in A-troupe, and kick Michelle out. As for Chloe, she now becomes part of E-girls. Stephanie tells Michelle before their first dance rehearsal is in Studio B but, Giselle, who is on her way to B-troupe tells her that A-troupe is always in studio A. Stephanie tells us in a confessional she did this so Michelle would be late, and get a bad reputation in A-troupe. It is said by people in A-troupe and as well in a confessional done by James was that James has dated many girls before, including Beth who is now in B-troupe, and uses dancing as an "unfair" advantage to get girls. It is said as well that E-girls is named by Emily, who's name starts with the letter "E" so that's why they are called the E-Girls. Also the E-girls have over 100 of rules, the main one being that you always look out for Emily and fellow E-Girls, also they have a fairly simple hand shake, creating an "E" with their hand, linking it with another E-girl to create an "E" on the top and a "G" on the bottom. Title Reference: Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory
3	3	"Dance, Dance"	Brian K. Roberts	Chloe Van Keeken	March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)
Kate and Chris give Michelle a chance to be dance captain considering her being dance captain at her last studio. Each dance captain had to split into a group of 5. But when Chris chooses the groups, Emily is split with Stephanie, her best friend, and Stephanie has to mess up the dance moves to Michelle's dance. Riley feels that Emily and Stephanie's idea shows that Emily is feeling too threatened towards Michelle. Meanwhile James is about to get kicked out of the studio for failing math. Chris says that he will help James and his mom gives him a second chance. West tries to befriend James by randomly putting on dance offs in public. Everyone in A-Troupe starts arguing over who should be dance captain, Kate panics and Chris throws ping pong balls for everyone to clean up. Until West starts dancing in front of James, James starts dancing in response meaning West has won his respect. Eventually everyone starts dancing together, forgetting about the dance captain situation. They realize they are here to dance! Not complain. Title Reference: Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy
4	4	"Rock and a Hard Place"	Brian K. Roberts	Rachael Schaefer	March 14, 2013 (2013-03-14)
A dance competition is coming up this weekend so Kate and Chris think they should decide the dance line positions. Emily persuades them to let her make the decision, which leads her to putting Michelle in the back row. After Riley finds out that Emily lied to A-Troupe about having the list reviewed by Kate and Chris, she approaches James and asks him if he thinks her being in the front over Michelle is fair, he gives her honest opinion and tells her that its not. So she switches her front line position with Michelle in the middle of a rehearsal. Emily is outraged that her sister betrayed her, and the E-Girls vote to kick Riley out of their clique. Title Reference: Rock and a Hard Place by The Rolling Stones
5	5	"Steal My Sunshine"	Mitchell T. Ness	Chloe Van Keeken	March 15, 2013 (2013-03-15)
The A-Troupe members go to the beach for a day off while the E-Girls run Dance Camp for the little kids. At the beach, Riley loses Emily's necklace and the group has to find it before they leave the beach. Meanwhile, one of the little kids at dance camp gets lost and the E-Girls have to find her before dance camp is over. At the end, Riley finds Emily's necklace and the E-girls find the little girl. Title Reference: Steal My Sunshine by Len
6	6	"Good Girls Go Bad"	Frank Van Keeken	Cole Bastedo (story) Rachael Schaefer (teleplay)	March 22, 2013 (2013-03-22)
The A-Troupe takes a visit to the Elite studio (their major dance competition) to see what they're doing for regionals. West and Daniel stay at the studio and dance while the rest go to Elite. Riley asks James to go along to keep an eye for Michelle. Michelle gets caught at Elite while filming their routine and the rest of the group leave her there. Title Reference: Good Girls Go Bad by Cobra Starship
7	7	"Love Story"	Brian K. Roberts	Frank Van Keeken	April 19, 2013
Michelle is still at the Elite studio frightened to be in front of the Elite group. She lies and says she wants to audition for the troop making Kate become worried about possibly losing her. Riley discovers Emily's plan to push Michelle out of the studio. Riley and James make a plan to replace Emily as dance captain with Michelle. After, the troop does duets. The duets are: West and Stephanie, Tiffany and Daniel, James and Riley, and Eldon is paired up with Michelle after Emily rejected him. Later, James helps Eldon get a date with Emily. After the date, Emily says it was horrible and never wants to go out with him. But, then Eldon expresses his emotion for Emily by doing a flip above her. Emily was amazed and still said no to going out with him. But agrees to be duet partners with him. And Eldon is filled with joy. Title Reference: Love Story by Taylor Swift
8	8	"Just the Two of Us"	Brian K. Roberts	Rachael Schaefer	April 26, 2013
Eldon realized that he has 2 duet partners Michelle and Emily-leaving Chloe alone. Eldon doesn't know what to do and just keeps the both of them for a while. Meanwhile, West feels Stephanie is being to bossy with the duet. But, they figure it out-West gets his flip and Stephanie get to be a little bossy. Emily and Michelle figure out that Eldon hase two dance parters with them, which leads them to a lot of drama! After, when they preform, Eldon volunteers to go first, choosing Chloe. After everyone preformed their wonderful duets, and Emily and Michelle have to do a duet front and centre not prepared. Which makes Emily and Kate/Chris mad because its disrespectful to her as dance captain. The groups are: Eldon & Chloe, Emily & Michelle, Riley & James, Stephanie & West and lastly, Daniel & Tiffany. Title Reference: Just the Two of Us by Grover Washington, Jr. and Bill Withers
9	9	"Video Killed the Radio Star"	Brian K. Roberts	Ian Van Den Hurk	May 3, 2013
Brighter Brightest is coming to make a music video with the A-troupe dancers featured in the video. Meanwhile, Riley is such a huge fan of the band, Brighter Brightest that she stammers when trying the talk to the band. Leading the band to think she's a foreign girl who doesn't know how to speak English. James admits to having feelings for Riley in an interview while Riley denies it, by the end of the episode you can see that Riley is starting to develop some feelings for James. Guest Stars: Brighter Brightest Title Reference: Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles
10	10	"Road To Joy"	Mitchell Ness	Rachael Schaefer	May 10, 2013
Kate tells Riley to go downtown and pick up the sample costumes for regional's and James goes along with her James begs Riley to stop and get shrawarmas. But, when they get back on the bus, James doesn't have a transfer. So he rips up Riley's so he can stay with her. So now they have to take a "short cut" through the park. In the end, when they're heading back to the studio in the bus, Riley and James hold hands. Meanwhile, Stephanie takes photo shoots for her dream of being a 'triple-threat.' And James and Riley do get the costumes in time when they impress the owners by dancing. Title Reference: Road to Joy by Bright Eyes Absent: Alexandra Beaton as Emily, Victoria Baldesarra as Michelle, Shamier Anderson as Chris, Isaac Lupien as Eldon, Brennan Clost as Daniel and Lamar Johnson as West.
11	11	"Can You Keep A Secret?"	Brian K. Roberts	Rachael Schaefer	May 17, 2013
The A-troupe auditions for soloists. When Daniel makes soloist, he gets an injury and keeps it a secret from everyone. Michelle figures out Chloe has a job. But, when Chloe is late for soloist auditions, Michelle stand up to Emily for Chloe, giving a speech about how Emily is being a bully before walking out that gives the impression that she is going to elite. But, when Riley and James find her in squeeze, she announces to them that she wants to overthrow Emily's position as dance captain. Title Reference: Can you keep A Secret? by The Cab
12	12	"Get It Together"	Brian K. Roberts	Story by: Cole Bastedo Teleplay by: Chloe Van Keeken	May 24, 2013
Michelle, Riley and James start planning their dance to overthrow Emily as dance captain. As they create a dance to overthrow her, they get West, and Daniel to join in the dance. When the group is late for rehearsals, Emily suspects something is up. After Emily rejects Chloe's dance move, Michelle, Riley, James, West, and Daniel show Chloe the dance, and ask her if she wants to join. Chloe immediately says no, and leaves upset at them for trying to overthrow Emily, her fellow E-girl. During the episode; Emily and Eldon start to get closer, they talk about their families, and hold hands in the juice bar, which makes Michelle upset for a "unknown" reason. Also, Stephanie gets help from Tiffany on her acting capabilities, and when Kate and Stephanie get back from meeting with an agent, Stephanie gets a phone call after she auditions for an acting agent, and gets her first agent. Title Reference: Get It Together by the Beastie Boys Note:Daniel's ankle injury maybe healed after injuring it in the solo auditions in "Can You Keep A Secret?", since he did not limp or show any difficulties when he rehearsed in Michelle's dance to overthrow Emily. He also asked for his solo when joining Michelle's dance. Daniel or any other member of A-Troupe did say it officially, though.Also, in "Don't Go Breaking My Heart,"(future episode;look below this episode)his ankle is still unhealed.
13	13	"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"	Samir Rehem	Frank Van Keeken	May 31, 2013
Emily tries to figure out what Michelle's group is doing. Chloe also joins Michelle's group. Eldon tries to prove to the A-Troupe dancers that he and Emily are serious. His plan did not go over well and he ended up ruining all the chances he had with Emily. At the same time he even created more humiliation for himself. Michelle's group decides to invite Eldon into their dance. While they were performing the dance for him, Stephanie finds out about Michelle's dance and tells Emily. Title Reference: Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee
14	14	"Sabotage"	Samir Rehem	Frank Van Keeken	June 7, 2013
In the summer finale, the E-girls finds out about Michelle's routine. They take Michelle's phone and send mean texts to Emily's phone to get Michelle kicked out. After Emily tells Kate about it, the truth about Michelle's dance routine is revealed and to settle it, Kate asks for Michelle's group to show their dance routine. Kate and Chris like their dance, and then Michelle becomes the new dance Captain after each person votes for the new dance captain. But Stephanie and Emily leave. Emily apologizes to Eldon after she was harsh to him. Emily and Michelle debate over who should be dance captain. Michelle wins the debate. Note: Even though Tiffany is in the E-Girls, she rejects Emily's dance and picks Michelle's dance. It is also noted that Eldon picks Michelle's dance instead of Emily's because he said, Emily has hurt me one too many times and then James says Eldon finally has grown up and moved on. Title Reference: Sabotage by Beastie Boys
15	15	"Lemon & Lime"	TBD	TBD	late Summer 2013
James is been replaced by Giselle after being pulled out from the studio. Emily and Stephanie came to audition to join Elite dance academy since Michelle is the dance captain. Elite dance academy accepted Emily and Stephanie which Kate is worried because she doesn't know where they are. In her way home in the bus, Michelle noticed Emily and Stephanie inside Elite dance academy. Emily and Stephanie came back to the Next Step studio liying to Kate that they were sick and couldn't come to the studio. Michelle keeps the secret about Emily and Stephanie for herself not telling anyone the situation.

Season 2: 2014

On April 11, 2013, The Next Step was renewed for a second season, due to premiere in March 2014. Production will start in July 2013.