--- title: Kitten Tries to Dance description: Six month old kitten tries to dance canonical: https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-24T21:36:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:12.562Z og:title: This Tiny Kitten Still Has Many Things to Learn About Dancing og:description: It's pretty a-mew-sing og:url: https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Tiny Kitten Still Has Many Things to Learn About Dancing twitter:description: It's pretty a-mew-sing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Tiny Kitten Still Has Many Things to Learn About Dancing ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 24, 2015 9:36 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 24, 2015 9:36 PM UTC In a nearly 30-second video, watch a barefooted woman try and get her six-month-old kitten to groove to a cover of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” But of course, the cat being a cat, is only interested in chasing or grabbing onto the woman’s right foot, which she keeps tapping on the ground. It tries really hard though, standing up on its hind legs to throw itself onto the foot before finally giving up and running away. (h/t [USA Today](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/08/this-kitten-doesnt-know-how-to-dance-and-its-too-cute)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/"},"headline":"This Tiny Kitten Still Has Many Things to Learn About Dancing","datePublished":"2015-08-24T21:36:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:12.562Z","description":"It's pretty a-mew-sing","url":"https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/4009033/kitten-dancing/","name":"This Tiny Kitten Still Has Many Things to Learn About Dancing"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4009033/kitten-dancing/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```