--- title: Nicki Minaj Anaconda: 11 Year Old Choreographs Hip Hop Dance Video description: It's awesome, even if the song's subject matter isn't exactly, uh, tween-friendly canonical: https://time.com/3449711/anaconda-dance-by-11-year-old/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-30T18:08:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:29.170Z og:title: Nicki Minaj Anaconda: 11 Year Old Choreographs Hip Hop Dance Video og:description: It's awesome, even if the song's subject matter isn't exactly, uh, tween-friendly og:url: https://time.com/3449711/anaconda-dance-by-11-year-old/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87701d3f0ddfa15a/6986a62935ba6f4001c041d9/screen-shot-2014-09-30-at-11-29-08-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-09-30 at 11.29.08 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nicki Minaj Anaconda: 11 Year Old Choreographs Hip Hop Dance Video twitter:description: It's awesome, even if the song's subject matter isn't exactly, uh, tween-friendly twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87701d3f0ddfa15a/6986a62935ba6f4001c041d9/screen-shot-2014-09-30-at-11-29-08-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch an 11-Year-Old Perform a Killer Choreographed Dance to Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 30, 2014 6:08 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 30, 2014 6:08 PM UTC Sia hired an 11-year-old dancer to perform a [ridiculously great dance routine](http://time.com/93261/sia-chandelier-video-2/) in the video for her smash hit “Chandelier” — and maybe Nicki Minaj should have done the same thing for her “Anaconda” [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs). Just kidding, that probably would have been weird given the video’s, er, graphic nature. But if Nicki does decide to hire a tween dancer in the future, she should give Taylor Hatala a shout. In the video above, 11-year-old Hatala — who her instructor Laurence Kaiwai [describes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfF%5Fc6uPaU) as a “beast” — delivers a totally killer performance to “Anaconda” alongside Kaiwai, who choreographed the routine. The song and its lyrics clearly are not the most tween-friendly material, but at a certain point you kind of just forget that Hatala is 11 because _whatever._ She totally nails it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3449711/anaconda-dance-by-11-year-old/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3449711/anaconda-dance-by-11-year-old/"},"headline":"Watch an 11-Year-Old Perform a Killer Choreographed Dance to Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda'","datePublished":"2014-09-30T18:08:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:29.170Z","description":"It's awesome, even if the song's subject matter isn't exactly, uh, tween-friendly","url":"https://time.com/3449711/anaconda-dance-by-11-year-old/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","kids","Viral video","Hip-Hop","Nicki Minaj","dance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87701d3f0ddfa15a/6986a62935ba6f4001c041d9/screen-shot-2014-09-30-at-11-29-08-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87701d3f0ddfa15a/6986a62935ba6f4001c041d9/screen-shot-2014-09-30-at-11-29-08-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-09-30 at 11.29.08 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3449711/anaconda-dance-by-11-year-old/","name":"Watch an 11-Year-Old Perform a Killer Choreographed Dance to Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda'"}}]}] ```