This introduces you to a dance studio called 'The Next Step', it has different groups due to your capability. Everyone in A or B troupe auditions for A troupe and there is a new girl what stirs the place up.

The new A-Troupe team results in one top dancer losing their spot. Emily is fighting to keep her spot as Dance Captain.

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. Kate yells at Michelle for deciding that their dance was ready, where Michelle argues saying that Stephanie agreed that she was ready. Emily was once again dance captain. 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,...

When mate asks Emily to hold dance evaluation placements in the group dance, Emily decides to put Michelle in the back row to cause waves amongst the dancers

Steal My Sunshine is about... The A troupe members get a day off because of Dance Camp in studio A. Michelle gives out a idea that they can go to the beach (Michelle has never been). Since Emily is the dance captain, she is in charge of running Dance Camp. The E~girls help her out. The rest of the troupe head down to the beach. Riley was wearing Emlily's grandmother's necklace to remember her loss. Riley had received a - watch and Emily a necklace it was the only thing they had to remember there grandmother by. Later on the day A huge problem happens including Riley's necklace, Chole be terrified and Kids gone missing at Dance Camp. I personally enjoyed this episode very much and I recommend it. Written by Heather Makety

To prepare for the competition, Emily convinces the team to go and spy on their arch enemies at Elite Dance Academy. Back at the studio, West and Daniel fight over studio space.

Emily agrees to go on a date with Eldon whilst Michelle is still at Elite making the only choice she has to pretend to audition for there team, Miss Kate is worried she will loose Michelle forever. James has a math test

Riley goes on her first date with James.

After being named the wild card they are put through to the semifinals. Where they dance against rival dance troupe seeds, who they previously lost to in a dance battle. So will they win and face Elite in the final.

The Next Step studio battles the Elite Dance Academy as the final two groups at Regionals.