Bottom of the Pyramid : A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life

When you’ve been told over and over that you belong at the bottom, how do you come out on top?Dance Moms star and triple threat Nia Sioux shows the way via her story of resilience, triumph, and defining success for herself. Young dancer Nia Sioux was only nine years old when she stepped into stardom as one of the original cast members of Lifetime’s reality TV show Dance Moms.Training under the notorious Abby Lee Miller, Nia learned new choreography week after week, competed against dancers from across the country as well as at her own studio, and suffered through Abby’s ranking of the girls against each other in her infamous pyramid-all in front of an audience of millions. But there was much that viewers didn’t see. How the verbal and mental abuse she experienced in the studio went far beyond what made it into the show.How she was treated as the token Black dancer and ostracized for not fitting into an aesthetic that wasn’t designed for girls like her.How her friendships and her mental