# Maddie Ziegler -- 11 year old dancer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maddie-ziegler-11-year-old-dancer/694669>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 2, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maddie-ziegler-11-year-old-dancer/694669 "2014-08-02T19:08:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maddie-ziegler-11-year-old-dancer/694669/1 "2014-08-02T19:08:57Z")

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She’s been on several shows, I see from her [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddie_Ziegler) entry, but what brought her to my notice was [the music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-TM) for Sia’s “Chandelier.”

I explained to my son once that interpretive dance tells a story, and I thought that the choreographer (Ryan Heffington) as well as the young dancer that brought the choreography to life deserved a shout-out for doing just that. It’s not my usual taste in music, but I was well and truly impressed.

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maddie-ziegler-11-year-old-dancer/694669/2 "2014-08-02T19:58:15Z")

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Then there’s [this](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS595US595&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=jimmy%20kimmel%20chandelier) as well…

(Jimmy Kimmel sort-of dancing through the same routine on the same set…)