<P> Ziegler attended Sloan Elementary School until 2013, when she left to be homeschooled . Ziegler and her family have long lived in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and also spend part of their time in Los Angeles . </P> <P> With Abby Lee Dance Company, Ziegler won numerous titles at regional, state and national dance competitions, including the 2014 Dancers Choice Award for Favorite Dancer 17 & Under . In 2010, Ziegler performed for Paula Abdul's reality television program Live to Dance, but the program was canceled before her performance aired . In 2011, eight - year - old Ziegler and her mother appeared on the first season of Lifetime's Dance Moms, a reality show about the young dancers on Abby Lee Miller's Abby Lee Dance Company Elite Competition Team and their often quarrelsome mothers . Ziegler "emerged as the preternaturally polished standout on six seasons" on the show, where she continued to appear alongside her mother and younger sister, Mackenzie, until 2016, their last season on the show . In 2013, Ziegler made guest appearances on a spin - off program, Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition . Dance Moms helped to make Ziegler "one of the most famous dancers in the entertainment world currently...(She inspires) other dancers to pursue their dreams with originality and grace ." </P> <P> Ziegler has appeared in music videos for such artists as Alexx Calise, Sia and Todrick Hall . She gained wide notice, at the age of 11, by starring in the 2014 video for "Chandelier" by Sia, who discovered her on Dance Moms . The video won the ARIA Music Award for Best Video and received nominations at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, winning the latter . It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2015 . It has received more than 1.6 billion views on YouTube, and it was, at one point, the 13th most viewed YouTube video of all time . Ziegler said of the choreography: "It was really different and weird for me, because I usually don't, you know, be a crazy person every time . It was so fun to do and it was really out of the box and it expanded me a lot, because I'm used to competition dances where you're like, Point your legs! But this time it was like, you just need to let go and feel it ." </P> <P> In 2015, Ziegler starred with Shia LaBeouf in "Elastic Heart", another Sia video, which has accumulated more than 800 million YouTube views . Later that year, Ziegler starred in the music video for "Big Girls Cry" to complete her trilogy of videos from Sia's album 1000 Forms of Fear . Ziegler danced to Sia's vocals on several television shows in 2014 and 2015, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dancing with the Stars, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Saturday Night Live, as well as at the Hollywood Bowl . By the end of 2015, Ziegler had performed with Sia on the Ellen DeGeneres Show three times . She also performed to "Chandelier", alongside Sia and Kristen Wiig, at the 2015 Grammy Awards . The "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart" videos were both selected as part of PopSugar's 2016 list of "25 of the Best Dance Videos of the Last Decade". In 2016, Ziegler starred in a fourth Sia video, "Cheap Thrills", from the album This Is Acting . A Teen Vogue reviewer wrote that Ziegler "delivers another powerful performance". This was followed by a fifth Sia video, later that year, for "The Greatest". Reviewing Ziegler's performance, Kathleen Hildebrand wrote in Süddeutsche Zeitung that anyone who has seen Ziegler's "iconic" movement will never again return to "boringly ordinary" MTV videos . </P>

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