- You need to be prepared to do your solo.
Are you ready to do it now?
KAYLA: I'll think about it.
DIANNA: Y'all wanna see it?
(ALL) Yeah!
DIANNA: Come on, Kayla.
I'm Kayla, and I'm the captain of the Dancing Dolls.
This is my first solo.
And I'm kind of nervous, because, like,
you're out there by yourself.
We love you, Kayla.
You better do it.
You better work.
KAYLA: Dancing is the biggest part of my life.
After high school, I would like to go
to a performance arts college.
And when I can't dance no more, I would like to teach
at a performance arts school.
DIANNA: Remember, personality.
Bring it.
[music playing]
Clock the hair.
Any situation, when you go into a competition,
it needs to be a knockout.
It needs to be like Muhammad Ali right hook, it's over.
It needs to be understood that you won.
I need more though, Kayla.
Come here.
You've given me just enough.
When you think you've done enough, go further, OK?
When it says "clock the bag," clock the bag.
Clock my shoes.
You understand what I'm saying?
You need to give me some more.
When you push, like, kind of look back.
Face-- I mean, you've got everything.
You've just got to bring it.
Kayla is missing head snaps.
Kayla isn't missing the beat.
Kayla is not pointing her toes.
She's really letting her nerves get the best of her.
Are you nervous?
I'm nervous more about the solo.
Why? Because it's my first solo.
I need to prove my point to everybody, and just--
What do you mean, prove your point?
Some of you feel like I'm just, like,
here just to be here.
And I tried to tell everybody, I like being here
and I like dancing.
But it's like I'm just the captain.
With that weight that's on you, use that.
Because when people make me mad, or I feel
like somebody is second guessing me, I always say,
I want you to hate on me.
I want you to continue to speak my name.
Continue to do what you're doing,
because that is my motivation.
It just makes me go just that much harder.
So with you feeling like that, you need to use that.
I have never seen Kayla cry.
I wanted to hug her.
And I wanted to just wipe her tears, and just tell her,
you know what, let's not do it at all.
But how am I helping her by doing that?
I feel like I'm giving her a crutch.
I'm just going to handicap you for the rest of your life
every time something happens.
And you get challenged by something
or worried, you're just going to back off.
No, I'm not going to allow you to do that.
Show them this side of Kayla, because nobody
sees you like this.
You need to show people who you are.
You need to let everybody know--
everybody needs to understand my name is Kayla
and I'm the captain.
Yeah.
Like, your whole song is who's in charge of the girls?
You're in charge.
You're the quarterback.
You're the head doll in charge.
You know, wipe your face.
You're all ready making your mark.
And if you couldn't do this, I wouldn't have
given you the task to do it.
I would have chose somebody else.
It's as simple as that.
Ladies and gentleman, this time,
there's a captain showdown.
Coming here first from Jackson, Mississippi, the Dancing Dolls!
[crowd cheering]
TINA: Before Kayla's captain solo,
I was like a nervous wreck.
I honestly was sick to my stomach.
The Dancing Dolls talent has arrived
to set the floor on fire.
You really think you doing something, huh?
I'm the captain, and I'm in charge of the girls.
Stand back and watch me [inaudible]..
DJ, drop that beat.
[cheering]
Give 'em face, Kayla!
[music playing]
DIANNA: While she's out there on the floor,
I had the biggest smile on my face
because everything that we practiced,
she's done it, except some of the technical things
that I told her about during rehearsal.
But I give Kayla a lot of credit, because she's
done a lot of things that not very many people will probably
have the courage to do.
I was really proud of her.
[music playing]
[cheering]
You did that.
I couldn't be more proud.
Face?
Baby, you did that face, baby.
You was doing that face, baby. I was hollering.
I said, "Give them face, Kayla!"
Give 'em face!"
I don't care what Judge say what.
She came out there and gave it all she had,
and that's all I can expect from her.
ANNOUNCER: The winner of the Captain of [inaudible]..
KAYLA: I'm excited, but I'm like, what
did the other girl do?
What did the other girl do?
I'm kind of thinking, OK, I shouldn't get first place.
That's what I'm thinking the whole time in my head.
[drumroll]
--The Dancing Dolls!
[crowd cheering]
All right, Kayla.
All right, Kayla!
TINA: After all the preparation for the solo, the practices,
I felt so proud of her.
This is like your history moment.
You know, when they go back on the captain
solo for the year of The Dancing Dolls, you did that.