Dancing

You can command your character to dance when you use the following slash command: /dance

Each sex of each race has a different style of dance. Appropriate music is not provided. New dance cycles were originally announced for the release of the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and are still being advertised as a new feature thereof on their official website[1].

Here is the official statement from Blizzard:

Re: Custom dances idea dropped? | 2009-04-22 20:01 |  Nethaera

It has not been dropped. Creating additional dances takes a significant amount of animation work and we want to make sure that when we do put them out, that they meet our standards. We still intend to put them in, but we have no current eta on their addition.

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Available dances

Alliance races

Race and Gender		Dance Style	Reference
	Human male	John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration video
	Human female	Los del Río - "Macarena"	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration video
	Night elf male	Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Night elf female	Alizée - "J'en ai marre"	Inspiration Video with French and English Lyrics
	Gnome male	Various parts of The Bad Touch-Bloodhound Gang	Not available
	Gnome female	Presumably salsa, but like the male Gnome, no true version is known.	Not available
	Dwarf male	Kazatchok, better known as the Cossack Dance (Russian Folkdance), also some Saturday Night Fever moves	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration video
	Dwarf female	Irish River Dance (Step-Dancing)	Template:Youtubelink Irish Step-Dancing Example
	Draenei male	Daler Mehndi - Modified bhangra from "Tunak Tunak Tun" video	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Draenei female	Belly dancing based on Colombian singer Shakira	Template:Youtubelink Shakira dancing

Horde races

Race and Gender		Dance Style	Reference
	Orc male	MC Hammer - "U Can't Touch This"	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Orc female	Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up"	Inspiration Video
	Troll male	Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts	Inspiration Video
	Troll female	Shakira - "Whenever, Wherever"	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Undead male	Metalhead; headbangs, plays air guitar, and jumps around. Same as skeleton and wretched. This may be a reference to Lord Raptor from Darkstalkers.	Not available
	Undead female	The "weeping willow" / Liquid dancing	Template:Youtubelink Reference Video
	Tauren male	Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Same as broken male.	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Tauren female	The Electric Slide	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Blood elf male	Napoleon Dynamite	Inspiration Video
	Blood elf female	According to the Burning Crusade Collector's Edition DVD, the blood elf female dance is made up of excerpts from various Britney Spears videos.	Template:Youtubelink Reference Video

Shaman and druid forms

Class		Form		Dance Style	Reference
	Shaman		Ghost Wolf	Standing on the hind legs and hopping from one leg to another (The Snoopy dance from the animated Peanuts movies)	Not available
	Druid		Moonkin	Chippendale dancer parody, as seen performed by Chris Farley in his famous Chippendale sketch with Patrick Swazye. Same as Ogre.	Inspiration Video
	Druid	File:Ability Druid TravelForm.png	Travel	Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King. Same as Druid Cat Form.	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Druid		Bear	Stand up on hind legs, dance back and forth from foot to foot, then back down on all fours again. Bear dance from Dr. Doolittle II.	Not available
	Druid	File:Ability Druid CatForm.png	Cat	Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King. Same as Druid Travel Form.	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Druid		Tree of Life	Does The Twist, a dance popularized by singer Chubby Checker. Same as Snowman.	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video

Other races

Race		Dance Style	Reference
	Ogre	Chippendale dancer parody, as seen performed by Chris Farley in his famous Chippendale sketch with Patrick Swazye. Same as Druid Moonkin Form. (Disguise: [Gordok Ogre Suit])	Inspiration Video
	Goblin	Crossing legs and putting one hand on the ground, then the same on the other hand. (Disguise: [Hallowed Wand - Pirate])	Not available
	Fel Reaver	Unknown, involves deep knee bends/squats and touching the opposite foot; looks more like an aerobic workout than a dance. While not technically a Fel Reaver, XT-002 Deconstructor, which uses the Fel Reaver wireframe, can be seen doing this dance.	Video
	Baby Murloc	"The Michigan Rag", a dance performed by animated character Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Brothers cartoon "One Froggy Evening". The dance animation is used by several limited-edition pet murlocs. Includes cute top hat and cane.	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Broken Male	Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Same as tauren male. (Disguise: during the Black Temple attunement quest)	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Skeleton	Metalhead; headbangs, plays air guitar, and jumps around. Same dance as male forsaken and wretched. (Disguise: [Noggenfogger Elixir])	Not available
	Snowman	Does The Twist, a dance popularized by singer Chubby Checker. Same as Druid Tree of Life Form. (Disguise: [Winter Veil Disguise Kit])	Template:Youtubelink Inspiration Video
	Arakkoa	Half-hearted The Twist (Disguise: [Shabby Arakkoa Disguise] or [Time-Lost Figurine])	Not available
	[Murloc Costume]	Kozo the Dancing Hippo.	Not available
	Wretched	Metalhead; headbangs, plays air guitar, and jumps around. Same dance as male forsaken and skeleton.	Not available
	Tyrael	An apparent hip-hop style dance.	Not available

Dance animations and videos

Blizzard released a webpage where you can view (and download animated images of) the dances performed by the WoW Classic races:

Lords of the Dance 

However, the animations on the site do not show the entire set of dance moves.

You can also view dance-mixes with models and real movie-clips: Template:Youtubelink WoW dance mix on Youtube

See also

• [Piccolo of the Flaming Fire]