Carisa Rose

Total: 9

Season 7: 9

Season 8: 0

* [Finals] I’m mostly nervous about falling on my behind.

**(7.2)**

* [With Jessica Marie] Tonight is the first meeting after the final audition and we’re so nervous and stressed out, but we’re really, really excited.

**(7.3)**

* It really hit me when I put on that uniform, and I saw myself for the first time, and I really felt like this might be my life for the next year.
* As soon as you get in there, they start tying and pulling and shortening your shorts, and it’s a little intense and crossing the comfort zone.

**(7.4)**

* Today is rookie makeover day, and I’m super excited but nervous because you never know what they’re going to do to you.
* I’m definitely looking forward to dancing as the new me. I have so much more confidence with my hair and my makeup, and I just feel like I look more like a DCC now.
* [Before office] I got some good feedback at the beginning of practice, so it was just one dance I could have danced a little bit bigger, so hopefully that doesn’t mean it’s my final night.
* [After office] The biggest thing I would take away from tonight is, they’re not kidding around when they say they’re a family. They honestly care about each and every one of us, and it’s just really good to know that I have that kind of support.

**(7.7)**

* [Squad photo] It’s definitely a day of beauty and pampering.

## **Commentary**

### **Season 7**

**(7.2)**

* Good style. – K

**(7.4)**

* Carisa is… – K/ Oh yeah. – J/ A hell of a lot better than I remember. – K
* I think you have beautiful technique and you know your choreography, but I think you could have attacked that one even more. Make sure you keep doing a lot of power, even though you’re trying to be perfect. – J
* Carisa is one that just seems to have the total package already. – J
* [Confessional during office visit] She just had a heavy heart, and I just had no idea I’d opened up Pandora’s box. – K
* [Confessional during office visit] I wanted to pick up the phone and call her parents and tell them how proud – I know they’re proud of her, but how proud they should be. – K
* [After office visit] Listening to Carisa tonight does make you become more of a fan of hers. – J
* She’s going this way instead of this way. – K [*imitates a motion*]
* You had memory mistakes that I don’t… do you know you did them? – J/ Yeah, I just got a mouthful of hair and it was really awkward. That’s like the first time that’s happened. – Carisa/ I’ve had a mouthful of hair in a player intro line where you couldn’t touch your palms for ten minutes, and you can’t make a mistake, but I’m just saying it can happen. – J

**(7.7)**

* Carisa looks great. – K

## **Office Visits**

### **Season 7**

**(7.4)**

* [Mid episode, second of three, takes place at Gilley’s] Kelli asks Carisa if she has a job, and Carisa responds “no,” before saying she actually did in retail, just for right now, just because she needed something since money is really tight. Kelli mentions that Carisa’s relocated from North Carolina, she didn’t have a job, her degree is in dance, and she’s found a part-time job. She then asks if she’s overwhelmed, and it that’s why she didn’t want to be considered for Show Group? Carisa says that the whole plan was if she made it this far for Show Group auditions, she was going to do it, and then things got really tight with her family [*Carisa starts crying for most of the remainder of the visit*]. Kelli asks if she means financially, and Carisa affirms. Carisa says they’re fine, she just wanted to help out and be available as much as possible to work. So, it was a hard decision, because she’d love to do it, but financially she wanted to find a job and leave her hours open as much as possible and just really focus on what she’s doing now and really perfect the routines that they’re learning. Judy says there’s nothing wrong with that. Carisa adds that she has two younger brothers, and her parents are trying to support her, too. She doesn’t want her brothers to miss out on any opportunities. Judy again tells her there’s nothing wrong with that. Kelli says if they get Camp DCCs, Carisa would be a great candidate to help teach dance, and that pays too, and Carisa is happy to know that. Kelli says she’s glad to learn all of this, and they’re all under a lot of pressure, especially someone like her who’s out-of-state. Some girls get everything paid for and some get nothing paid for, and that’s a lot of pressure. Kelli tells her that she’s got so much on her plate, that she wouldn’t want her to be overwhelmed and give up. [*Carisa leaves*] Kelli is glad to have learned all of that, and Judy agrees, saying she’s impressed with her, that she’s wanting to help out her family, which is so sweet.

## **Other**

### **Season 7**

**(7.1)**

* Shown dancing after Kelli gives a confessional about there being a few great performers at preliminaries
* At panel interviews, she says her favorite player on the Cowboys is Miles Austin

**(7.4)**

* Makeover glamour shot: hair is curlier and minimally redder

### **Season 8**

**(8.2)**

* At panel interviews, she says she is constantly trying to strive to be better: a better person, a better woman, a better dancer.