--- --- # Blue Ivy Did Some Flawless Dancing During Beyoncé's Performance at the VMAs by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 25, 2014 2:18 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 25, 2014 2:18 PM UTC Beyoncé may have [performed her entire album](http://time.com/3170170/vmas-2014-beyonce-performance/) (basically) in a totally show-stopping number at last night’s VMAs, but the real star was actually her daughter, Blue Ivy. Perched on her daddy’s lap, Blue was seen rocking out during Queen Bey’s performance — but subtly rocking out, so as not to steal her mama’s thunder: Here, she goes with some tasteful head-bobbing: Blue was also spotted doing the famous “Single Ladies” dance. Check out this [incredible GIF](http://mtv.tumblr.com/post/95700565815/vma). Oh, and then she went onstage to help Jay present Bey with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award (which is basically the VMAs version of a lifetime achievement award) and everything was cute and perfect: VMAs 2014: Blue Ivy Carter and Jay Z Dance at Beyonce Performance ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3173766/vmas-2014-blue-ivy-jay-z-dance-at-beyonce-performance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3173766/vmas-2014-blue-ivy-jay-z-dance-at-beyonce-performance/"},"headline":"Blue Ivy Did Some Flawless Dancing During Beyoncé's Performance at the VMAs","datePublished":"2014-08-25T14:18:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:42.617Z","description":"And then she helped Jay Z present Beyoncé with an award","url":"https://time.com/3173766/vmas-2014-blue-ivy-jay-z-dance-at-beyonce-performance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Beyonce","Jay-z","dance","celebrity","vmas"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3173766/vmas-2014-blue-ivy-jay-z-dance-at-beyonce-performance/","name":"Blue Ivy Did Some Flawless Dancing During Beyoncé's Performance at the VMAs"}}]}] ```