Nostalgic for the Present Tour
| Tour by Sia | |
Promotional poster
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| Associated album | This Is Acting |
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| Start date | September 29, 2016 |
| End date | November 6, 2016 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 23 in North America 23 total |
| Sia concert chronology | |
The Nostalgic for the Present Tour was Australian pop singer Sia's first arena concert tour. The 23-date North American tour, which featured opening acts Miguel and AlunaGeorge, began at Seattle, Washington's KeyArena on September 29, 2016 and concluded on November 6, 2016 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.Maddie Ziegler toured with Sia, together with several other onstage dancers, executing Ryan Heffington's choreography on the stage, while Sia sang at the rear of the stage with her face covered by her familiar wig. The tour received positive reviews from critics.
Sia toured in North America and Europe in 2010, and in Australia and North America in 2011, to promote her album We Are Born. She then turned to songwriting, retiring from performing for several years. In 2014, she released the album 1000 Forms of Fear, which, together with its singles and videos like "Chandelier" that featured Maddie Ziegler, achieved considerable success, gaining Sia wider public notice. When Sia performed at various award ceremonies, television shows and other events to promote the album, she wore a wig covering part of her face in an effort to retain some privacy and control over her image.
In April 2016, after Sia released her seventh album, This Is Acting, she performed a live concert for the first time in five years at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The concert featured projected videos above the stage with choreographed vignettes, including several that featured Ziegler, while Sia's small dance troupe duplicated the videos' choreography onstage. The performance was widely praised. In June 2016, Sia gave a similar concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, featuring Ziegler. From May to August, Sia performed nearly a dozen festival and other concerts in America and European and Middle Eastern countries, establishing the format that she would use on the Nostalgic for the Present Tour, with the dance troupe and video projections, while wearing her "huge white bow hat over a black and white wig covering her face."
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