Instead of rising through the ranks by having a famous parent or getting big on Instagram, Maddie came to fame through dance.
She’s been gaining steady momentum thanks to her starring roles in Sia’s music videos as well as her appearances on “Dance Moms.” Maddie’s been Sia’s unofficial dance rep since age 11 – but it wasn’t her first time taking center stage and won’t be the last.
Now 14, Maddie has been gaining fans since she first appeared in “Dance Moms” at age eight, and she’s adding writing and acting to her résumé. She’s a rising star who’s not afraid of working hard — and unlike many girls her age, she admits she sometimes forgets to post on Instagram for days at a time. Continue reading Teen Queen Maddie Ziegler Dances to Her Own Beat
Dream duo Maddie Ziegler and Sia are teaming up again!
Today, November 17, the Christmas album of Sia was released, entitled “Everyday is Christmas”, and the cover art features Maddie herself!
The dancing star is decked out in all the red, green, ribbons and curls in the photo, which is making us feel the holiday vibes already.
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“When I was 8, I wasn’t doing what 8-year-olds are doing now.”
It’s funny to hear Maddie Ziegler appraising the cohort of talented, tiny dancers coming up behind her. After all, she’s just 13. But Ziegler, best known as the platinum-blonde-bewigged stand-in for camera-shy pop singer Sia, is already a bit of an old hand when it comes to dancing onscreen. “We did more old-school dancing, but they’re way more advanced,” she continues. “Even 9- and 10 -year-olds are so good at hip-hop — their freestyling is amazing, and I’m sure some of those kids choreograph their own dances.”
Ziegler’s dancing career (on TV, at least) began in 2011, when the Pittsburgh native emerged as the preternaturally polished standout on six seasons of Lifetime’s reality show Dance Moms, where Sia first discovered her. This week, Ziegler will join Paula Abdul, Jason Derulo, and Nigel Lythgoe on the judging panel of So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, the reality juggernaut’s first foray into competition for the 8- to 13-year-old set.
Competition can instill plenty of good habits in young dancers — stage presence, attention to detail, showmanship — but it can engender plenty of bad ones as well — favoring precision over artistry, and a tendency toward mugging that Ziegler herself once suffered from (it even had a name: “Maddie Face”). Breaking those depends on both training and working with teachers who will push a young dancer toward greatness.
Maddie and Kenzie Ziegler truly are sisters by birth, friends by choice. You may know the Actor, the Singer, Entrepreneurs, Dancers but now it’s time to really get to know them. Let’s all “Take 20” together. Take 20 with Maddie and Kenzie, an iHeartRadio Podcast.
