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  • - Our next guest may be the cutest hip-hop dancer

  • off the Big Island.

  • All the way from Kapolei, Hawaii,

  • please welcome eight year old Kaya.

  • Did I pronounce it right, Kaya? - Yes.

  • - Kaya, and that's a nickname, right?

  • - Yes. - That's not your real name.

  • What's your real name?

  • Kiaulolani Okohoaka Kapuakukahi Piau Ukpihea.

  • [cheers and applause]

  • - That is the craziest name I've ever heard in my whole life.

  • [laughter]

  • Kaya is so much easier to say.

  • What is the first name, exactly?

  • My first name is Kiaulolani.

  • - Kiaulo-- - Kiaulolani.

  • - Kiaulolani. So that's not that long.

  • It's the middle name that's long.

  • Say it again-- the whole thing.

  • So my middle name is Kapuakukahi.

  • My last name is Piau Ukpihea.

  • And my first name is Kiaulolani.

  • - Okay, and so-- it must--

  • you're--you're from Hawaii. - Yes.

  • - It must have some meaning. What does it mean?

  • - It means, so-- it means the moon of the night

  • I was born.

  • And the moon's name is Hoaka.

  • - Okay, well, those would have been shorter than your name.

  • [laughter]

  • Could have just said, "The moon the night I was born."

  • Um, you-- you are so talented.

  • I saw you, and I wanted to have you on the show.

  • - Thank you.

  • - 'Cause I love the way you dance.

  • - Thanks. - How--and you're eight.

  • - Yes.

  • - And how long have you been dancing?

  • - I've been dancing for four years,

  • and I first started dancing when I was doing ballet.

  • But then I started seeing hip hop on TV,

  • so I was like, I want to do that.

  • And the next thing you know, I love it.

  • - Yeah, yeah, of course.

  • What do you want to do when you grow up?

  • - When I grow up? I love dancing.

  • - Mm-hm. - And I love dogs.

  • - Uh-huh. - And then I want to be, like,

  • like, dance for the dogs and animals.

  • [cheers and applause]

  • - That's a wonderful job.

  • - Why didn't I think of that as a profession?

  • I-I should have danced for dogs for a living.

  • That's a wonderful thing.

  • There's nothing a dog loves more than someone dancing for them.

  • [laughter]

  • All right, and so you brought your choreographer Matt

  • who I saw-- - Yeah.

  • - I watched his videotape of y'all dancing together.

  • So you're gonna dance for us now?

  • - Yes. - All right, here we go.

  • [cheers and applause]

  • [Drake's "Hotline Bling"]

  • [singing] - I know when that hotline bling

  • That can only mean one thing

  • Ever since I left the city you

  • Started wearing less and going out more

  • Glasses of champagne out on the dance floor

  • Hanging with some girls I've never seen before

  • You used to call me on my cell phone

  • Late night when you need my love

  • I know when that hotline bling

  • That can only mean one thing

  • I know when that hotline bling

  • That can only mean one thing

  • Ever since I left the city you, you, you

  • You and me, and me, and me

  • [cheers and applause]

  • - That was so good! - Thank you.

  • - That was so good. Hi, Matt.

  • - Hi, good to see you again, Ellen.

  • - So good to see you. I mean.

  • That's so good. - Thank you.

  • - All right.

  • Listen, I know that dancers, you have a style

  • and there's always--it's really cool when you show up

  • and you have your own specific style.

  • So I got you something.

  • The next time you dance-- [gasps]

  • All right, so here-- - Whoo.

  • - Thank you. - That's Matt.

  • Hold on, let's share the back of yours

  • with your name on it.

  • And yours is all over the sleeve.

  • [laughter]

  • - Thank you.

- Our next guest may be the cutest hip-hop dancer

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