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Maddie Ziegler was born as Madison Nicole Ziegler on September 30, 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the age of two, Maddie Ziegler has had a passion for performance. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Maddie's mother Melissa enrolled her and her younger sister, Mackenzie Ziegler, in dance classes at a local studio. A few years later the trio starred in the hit Lifetime reality series 'Dance Moms'. The result of the show's immense popularity led Ziegler to segue into becoming an viral dance sensation, starring in singer-songwriter Sia's music videos for 'Chandelier', 'Elastic Heart', and 'Big Girls Cry', which have collectively amassed more than 1.5 billion views. Maddie has performed these dark contemporary routines on shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), Saturday Night Live (1975), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), and The 57th Annual Grammy Awards (2015). Ziegler has since begun acting on scripted television shows, such as Pretty Little Liars (2010) and Austin & Ally (2011). She makes her major motion picture debut in The Book of Henry (2017), opposite Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, and Jacob Tremblay.- Melissa Ziegler was born on 13 June 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Todrick Hall: Freaks Like Me (2014), The 47th Floor (2011) and Todrick Hall Feat. Abby Lee Dance Company: Dance (2016). She has been married to Greg Gisoni since 2013. They have three children. She was previously married to Kurt Ziegler.
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Gianna Martello is an American choreographer and reality TV personality. Gia, as she is known to her peers, is a proud member of the Lifetime TV's famous dance reality show 'Dance Mom'. The show revolves around the Abby Lee Miller Dance Company, its principal Abby Lee Miller, the kids who train at the academy, and their moms. Complex interactions between the moms and Abby are often resolved by Gianna's calm intervention and she is definitely the right-hand man of Abby. She loves teaching the kids and has been the choreographer behind the show's most successful find, Maddie Zeigler. She has a huge following on Instagram with over a million people eager to know the going on of her exciting life. She herself is an accomplished competitive dancer who has a number of awards and titles under her kitty. As of April 2017, she has a net worth of about 600,000 USD.
Dance is in Gianna's blood. Coming from a family of dancers where her grandmother, mother and aunts are all associated with the craft, Gianna started her formal training at the tender age of four. She enrolled at The Abby Lee Miller Dance Company (ALDC) when she was 7, after having trained in the local small dance studios till then. All her life she aspired to be this famous dancer but life had other plans for her. She started assisting Abby at 16 years of age and her foray into choreography began. She started enjoying giving dance lessons to kids alongside Abby and would work weekends all through the college days. Gradually, she evolved into this right-hand man of Abby Lee Miller and people started recognizing her in the dance circuit. Her major claim to fame happened with 'Dance Mom' where she featured as a choreographer regularly. She was already involved in managing Abby's affairs in the show, like warming the students up before performance and checking up on the music. She was asked by the producers to join as a choreographer, but it did not occur to her as the opportunity of a lifetime. Eventually the show went on to become a huge hit and Gianna became one of the most recognized choreographers of the show. She is loved by the contestants, the moms and is a close confidante of Abby. She has taught and choreographed famous teen dancer and Teen Choice Awards winner, Maddie Zeigler. She has even choreographed music videos for singers like MackZ, Meghan Trainor, and Kendall Vertes. She got boatloads of accolades for her choreography in the Alexx Calise music video 'Cry'. Gianna herself was a competitive dancer before she took on choreography full time and has competed in a number of national platforms. She has quite a few titles under her belt. Of all the genres, she loves to dance and choreograph the lyrical/contemporary style because she thinks is quite challenging to tell the story perfectly with graceful movements that will not distract the audiences from the music as well.
Gianna Martello was born on June 10, 1989 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She showed immense interest for dance from an early age. She planned to move to LA or New York to pursue a career as a dancer but fate had other designs. Upon her family's persistence she enrolled into college, and earned a degree in advertising and public relations. She loves the aspect of marketing designs and designs all of ALDC's promotional materials. She has come a long way from teaching Dance 101 classes to little kids on the weekends between her own classes to taking on full time choreography responsibilities in the reality show. She is very close to Abby from their long association of 20 odd years and vehemently defends all allegations against Abby of being rude and moody. She is extremely loyal and although she is famous enough to pave her own way in the big cities like LA and NYC, she has said that for the time being she is content being in Pittsburg near her family and ALDC, while having the chance to travel around the world for the dance reality show. Gianna is a shy person who is still not very accustomed to the limelight. She prefers to stay backstage and being involved with the creative process of the dance rather than being right in front of the camera. She is the pacifier of the show, whom everybody turns to, right from the producers to the contestants.- Kristie Ray was born on 3 August 1971 in California, USA. She is an actress, known for Sister Code (2015), Dance Moms Funniest Fights (2019) and Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition (2012). She has been married to Shawn Ray since April 2003. They have two children.
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Chloe Lukasiak was born as Chloe Elizabeth Lukasiak on May 25, 2001 in Churchill, PA. Since 2014, she has lived in Mars, PA with her parents, Marc and Christi, and sister Clara. The family also maintains an apartment in Los Angeles due to her many commitments there. Her father works in marketing at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Chloe began dancing at age 2, competing from age 4 to 13 for the Abby Lee Dance Company. Her titles include: 2011 National Miss Small Fry (Dance Educators of America), 2011 Junior Miss Dance of Pennsylvania (DMA), and 2012 National Junior Miss Energy (Energy Dance Competition). She also competed two numbers (musical theatre and ballet) in the 2011 Philadelphia YAGP Semi-Finals, placing in the top 12 in the Pre-Competitive division.
From age 9 to 13, Chloe was an original cast member of the reality dance show "Dance Moms," appearing in seasons 1-4. From the first episode, Chloe's sweet and modest nature, along with her natural balletic talent, won her many fans throughout the world. During her time on the show, she portrayed young Lux in the music video "It's Like Summer" and appeared in co-star Brooke Hyland's music video, "Summer Love Song." She also modeled, won several special competition awards, and appeared on talk shows such as "The View," "Katie," "Showbiz Tonight," and "Anderson Cooper." Throughout the series, she competed over 45 solos, as well as many duets and trios and most group dances. Conflict between her mother and Abby Lee Miller created a hostile environment, and Chloe left first the ALDC, and finally "Dance Moms" in 2014.
In high demand now that she was free of the ALDC, Chloe was invited to be a demonstrator and assistant for Blake McGrath in the VIP Dance Events convention (Calgary, Oct. 2014). She became a spokes-model as well as a catalog model for Just for Kix, a dance-wear company, partnering with them for an anti-bullying video and campaign called #Nobody is You. Chloe continued her dance training at Studio 19 Dance Complex near Pittsburgh, joining their award-winning competition team for their Spring 2015 season. One of her dances was an anti-suicide duet with Madelyne Spang. Then she joined the Triple Threat Tour as a guest performer and assistant for several dance conventions in 2015/2016.
Chloe has posted many professionally-filmed dance videos on her Youtube channel, as well as being cast as the lead in several videos by other artists from 2014-2017. One of her dance performances, filmed with transgender vocalist Aly J, was featured on CNN. She filmed two dance-themed promotional spots for Playtex Sport and an anti-bullying dance video for Seventeen Magazine. In August 2015 she won the very first "Choice Dancer" Teen Choice Award, as well as "Favorite Dancer 17 and Under" Award at the Industry Dance Awards.
Since the age of 10, Chloe has modeled for several companies, such as Oxyjen, Tutu DuMonde, Cicci's Costumes, Sally Miller, 90 Degrees of Reflex, GoodHyouman, and Boy Meets Girl. In 2016 she walked the runway for Max Azria BCBG, and in Sept 2017 she was the representative of JustFab's "Rocking Ballerina" clothing collection. During NY Fashion Week in Feb. 2018, Chloe became a "Gelwick Girl," being styled by Andrew Gelwick for her book tour and several fashion shows at New York Fashion Week. She continues to work with several companies, most recently JustFab and Invisalign.
In 2015, Chloe was cast in "Center Stage: On Pointe," the third movie in the popular "Center Stage" dance movie series. Following this, she appeared in the Bailee Madison movie "A Cowgirl's Story," the science-fiction/inspirational thriller called "Loophole" (a lead role), and supporting roles in the family-friendly movies "Camp Arrowhead," "Next Level," and "F.R.E.D.I."
Chloe has filmed over 70 episodes of various series, including two seasons of her own dance tutorial show, "Chloe on Pointe," 16 episodes of Disney's "Wicked Weekly" (a promotional Youtube/TV series for "Descendants 2"), two seasons of the fashion contest show "ReadySetStyle," the lead role in the multi-episode web thriller "Limelight," 4 episodes of Victoria's Secret-PINK's "GRLPWR" series, 2 episodes of Invisalign's "Unstoppable" series, and promotional videos for Barbie, the movie "Zombies 2," and NBC's "Super Store." In Summer 2017, she starred in an eight-episode series called "Chloe Does It," which was broadcast on Lifetime TV along with Season 7B of Dance Moms, following that up with a 2019 episode of "Famously Afraid," about her spooky experiences in New Orleans, on the Travel Channel.
Chloe's well-publicized return to "Dance Moms," in Spring 2017, featured her dancing with the top-notch Murrieta Dance Factory team for 2 competitions before a belated reunion with her former teammates, who had just quit the ALDC. The new team, The Irreplaceables, worked with Aisha Francis as well as Cheryl Burke from "Dancing With the Stars." Chloe competed in six group dances, one duet (with Nia Sioux Frazier) and one solo. After filming ended, she joined Kendall Vertes and Kalani Hilliker for an Irreplaceables tour, for which Chloe performed three new group dances, two new duets, and a new solo, with additional new duets and solos for some 2018 dates.
Chloe maintained a consistent presence in online polls about dancing and fashion; among her wins were the CelebMix 2016 "Best Dancer" contest, Twist's 2016 "Trendsetter of the Year," J14's 2016 "Icon of the Year," and Tiger Beat's 2017 "Girl Power Icon of the Year." In 2019, Chloe took part in the Tate McRae "Tear Myself Apart" Contest, placing in the top 5.
Chloe was invited to the United Nations in 2016 for Peace Day, returning to speak in 2017. She also contributed a piece detailing her experience with overcoming bullying in the 2016 book "Ignite!". On social media, she has come out in support of immigrants, LGBTQ youth, mental health support, anti-drug pledges, preventing school shootings, kindness, Black Lives Matter, and awareness of eating disorders.
In 2018, her first book, "Girl On Pointe," was published, along with a well-attended book tour. Her two-year partnership with Barnes & Noble and Girl's Life Magazine, "Chloe's Book Club," featured monthly book recommendations, recaps, discussion questions and commentary. She has been sharing poetry on Instagram and has announced her intention to write a fantasy book series.
Chloe is in her second year at Pepperdine University, living in her own apartment in Los Angeles. In her rare spare time between college and acting classes, she loves reading, writing, journaling, going to movies, surfing, hanging out with friends, hiking, yoga and fitness boxing. She continues to share her busy life with her fans - everything from Pittsburgh quarantine life to L.A. apartment adventures. She maintains an active social media presence, with millions of followers on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, SnapChat, TikTok, and Instagram. On her Youtube channel, she has filmed many DIYs, challenges, daily routines, hauls, room and apartment tours, vlogs, Q&As, and behind-the-scenes videos inviting fans into her personal life. She is also an Author as well.- Actress
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Brooke Hyland was born as Brooke Marie Hyland to Kelly and Randy Hyland on January 30, 1998 in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a dancer on the Lifetime hit reality television show "Dance Moms", last appearing in Season 4. She danced on the show with her sister Paige. Brooke also has a younger brother named Josh. She also sings and has released her only album "Brooke Hyland". Brooke began dancing at ALDC when she was 2 years old. She left ALDC in 2014.