We’ve seen a lot of odd performances of Sia’s “Chandelier†— most of them starring wunderkind dancer Maddie Ziegler, and one of them with Lena Dunham — but her performance last night on SNL might have been the most affecting one yet. In a stripped-down, slowed-down version of the song, Sia took to the stage wearing a black lace visor. She was accompanied again with a proxy — this time a mime signing alongside her as she sang.
But if you really miss Maddie, she was there, too, performing earlier with a similarly bewigged dancer during Sia’s performance of “Elastic Heart.â€