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Nia Sioux On Her Traumatic “Dance Moms” Experience and New Series Highlighting Dancers With Disabilities
We met Nia Sioux in a dance studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania back in 2011 thanks to Lifetime’s hit reality series Dance Moms. Ten years later, Sioux is a multi-hyphenate: performer, college student, and author with her own original Facebook series Dance With Nia.
She has more on her plate than your average twenty-year-old, with a focused eye on encouraging other young people to believe in themselves and pursue their dreams.
We spoke and talked about her experience as a child in the public eye, what she’s learned, how she’s healed, and where she’s going now:
Darrah Brustein: I was stalking you online before this interview and saw that you were traveling — — welcome back!
Nia Sioux: I went to Antigua on a little birthday trip. I’m 20 now — it’s crazy that I’m not a teenager anymore, it’s kind of weird.
Brustein: That’s the funny thing with numbers. We can have such identities wrapped into them and connected to them.
