Kalani Brooke Hilliker Biography

Kalani Hilliker started dancing from the tender age of two. At her very first performance which was a recital, it was crystal clear that she was destined to be a performer. She then furthered her dance training at Club Dance in Arizona when she was five years old and then went on to train in ballet at the Master Ballet Academy at the age of ten. Due to her impeccable technique and talent, she competed regularly in the US dance circuit, winning numerous solo regional and national titles at Dance Awards, Nuvo, Jump, Showbiz, and Hall Of Fame to name a few. Her first professional break came in 2011, when she, along with several of her dance friends entered Disney Channel’s ‘Make Your Mark: Ultimate Dance Off’ contest, vying for the prize of a featured role on the hit television show ‘Shake It Up.’ Her group AKsquared, won the competition and was featured in the episode ‘Camp It Up.’In 2013, Hilliker competed in the second season of ‘Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition’ and instantly became Abby Lee Miller and the audience’s favourite. However, she was eliminated from the show in Vegas Week for a weak Hip-Hop performance but was brought back by Miller with her call-back card. She made it to the final four but was eliminated during the group challenge in the finals week. But this was not the end of the road for Hilliker. Thoroughly impressed by her dancing skills and talent, Abby Lee Miller invited KalaniHilliker and her mother, Kira Girard, to join the Abby Lee Dance Company in the ‘Dance Moms’ season 4 episode ‘Big Trouble In The Big Apple.’The mother-daughter duo continued on in the show until the season’s midseason finale episode ‘Presenting My New Team’, after which she and her mother decided to return to Arizona with Kira explaining that family was more important to them than fame. Despite leaving the show, Kalani still appeared as a member in the ‘Junior Elite Competition Team’ for the fifth season. Apart from these two reality shows she has also made appearances in ‘America’s Got Talent’ and ‘The View.’Hilliker has also acted in television shows such as ‘Bunheads’, ‘Breaking Brooklyn’ and ‘Swiped.’ She also has a few music videos to her credit such as Mackenzie Ziegler’s ‘It’s A Girl Party’, MattyB’s‘Turn Up The Track’, Kendall K Vertes’s ‘Wear ‘Em Out’ and Mackenzie Sol’s ‘My Name.’

Kalani Brooke Hilliker started dancing at the young age of 2 and quickly rose to fame on the reality TV show "Dance Moms."