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 '' . 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 . " 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 2 billion views on YouTube , and at one point it was 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 do n'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 . " In 2015 , Ziegler starred with Shia LaBeouf in " Elastic Heart " , another Sia video , which has accumulated more than 1 billion 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 " . The video of the song has accumulated more than 600 million YouTube views . 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 . Ziegler continued the collaboration with Sia and the group LSD in the music videos for '' Thunderclouds '' ( 2018 ) and " No New Friends " ( 2019 )
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ARIA Music Awards of 2014
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