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Max is currently a university student. He is an acro dancer, formerly on A-Troupe and Elite Dance Academy.
Biography
Before the show
Max attended Absolute Dance Nationals and won the Mister Nationals Soloist title several times.[1]
Season 1
Max is a member of Elite Dance Academy[2] and goes to Regionals with his team.[3]
Season 2
Max performs at the duet competition with Regan.[4] In addition, he later performs at the trio competition.[5]
Still a part of Elite, Max is the male soloist at Nationals and wins against his rival.[1]
Season 3
Max competes against Richelle in a dance battle and wins, becoming a part of A-Troupe.[6]
Max has trouble making friends with the A-Troupers, and has trouble adjusting to what The Next Step does, rather than Elite, and to help him fit in, Phoebe (after getting an idea from Cierra) assigns him a duet with West; Max makes friends with him.[7] After Shantel leaves A-Troupe,[8] Max has even more trouble fitting in, and Giselle (as she is the new dance captain) tries to make him feel welcome.[9] Eventually, he makes friends with James, Thalia, Eldon, Giselle, and others.
When Amanda has to leave practice early, Max fills in for her in the trio with Giselle and Thalia. He feels bad when he is asked to permanently replace her and offers to teach her how to do acro, but she refuses.[10]
He and Richelle pair up to perform a duet, set to the song "The Abyss."[11] They perform it at a duet competition; later on, Phoebe claims that the two came in first place.[12]
For Amanda's welcome back party, to the song "Oops a Daisy", Max performs a musical theatre duet with Eldon.[13]
He is enlisted to be in a five person dance for Absolute Dance Internationals alongside Giselle, West, James, and Riley.[14] A twist, naturally, ensues and the dance must be fitted to an entirely new song. Despite the challenge, the routine goes extremely well and his team moves on to the semi-finals.[15]
Like the rest of his team, Max is elated to win Internationals.[16]
Season 4
Feeling that he has sufficiently broken out of his shell, Max says goodbye to The Next Step, and goes to university.[17]
Personality
Max is an extremely stoic and serious individual, and is a man of few words. He rarely socializes, and is usually seen alone. He is very serious about dance, and is shown practicing regularly on his own time. This seriousness does not mean that he is emotionless though; he has said that he is a sucker for love,[11] and he enjoys participating in silly activities such as square dancing[18] and burping.[12]
Physical appearance
Characteristics
Max is muscular and strong, to the point of being the only person on A-Troupe who is successfully capable of holding two girls' weight at the same time in a lift, as shown in his lifts with Giselle and Thalia[10] and then later with Giselle and Riley.[15] He has a medium brown complexion and is very tall.
Attire
Max's dance wear mainly contains brown, maroon, and red. He is mainly seen wearing a muscle tee, paired with shorts. In his later seasons, he wears sweatpants when dancing.
Abilities
Dancing
- Acro: Max's dominant style is acro.
- Ballet: Max can pirouette effectively.
- Breakdance: Max is proficient in breakdance. His favourite dance move, the windmill, is a breakdance move.[8]
- Contemporary: Max is a proficient contemporary dancer.
- Hip-hop: Max is proficient at hip-hop. He was part of the "music mystery" five-person routine for Internationals which was a hip-hop routine.[14]
- Square dance: Max allegedly goes square-dancing on a weekly basis. He seems to know a lot about the style.[18]
Relationships
- Main article: Max/Relationships
Appearances
Dances
- Group dances
- Solos
- Duets
- Trios
- Solos
- Duets
- Trios
- Group dances
- Group dances
Trivia
- He competes in the same duet competition that James and Beth are a part of[4], the trio competition that Giselle, Thalia, and Amanda are a part of and the junior trio that Richelle, Josh and Becca are a part of.[5]
- He is often seen drinking milk.
- One of his favourite hobbies is square dancing.[18]
- Another one of Max's favourite hobbies is burping.[19]
- His favourite dance move is the windmill.[8]
- Max was one of the oldest members of A-Troupe.[20]
- Max is one of two characters who portrays an originally unnamed dancer from a rival The Next Step studio on-screen who goes on to become a main character of the show and member of A-Troupe, the other being Heather; Max appears in Season 1, is only named in Season 2 and becomes a main character of the show in Season 3 and Heather appears in Season 4 and is only named in Season 5 when she becomes a main character of the show.
Quotes
- Main article: Max/Quotes
Gallery
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References
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