Dancing

A crowd of various Horde races showing off their dance moves.

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

Each gender of each race has a different style of dance. Appropriate music is not provided.

Available dances

Alliance races

Race and Gender		Dance Style	Reference
	Human male	Bee Gees - "You Should Be Dancing"	Inspiration Video, you can see Human Male dance at 1:09
	Human female	Los del Río - "Macarena"	Inspiration video
	Night elf male	Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"	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	Inspiration Video
	Gnome female	Presumably salsa, but like the male Gnome, no true version is known.	Not available
	Dwarf male	Also Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing	Inspiration Video, you can see Dwarf Male dance at 1:46
	Dwarf female	Irish River Dance (Step-Dancing)	Irish Step-Dancing Example
	Draenei male	Daler Mehndi - Modified bhangra from "Tunak Tunak Tun" video	Inspiration Video
	Draenei female	Belly dancing based on Colombian singer Shakira	Shakira dancing
	Worgen male	Justin Timberlake - "My Love"	Inspiration video
	Worgen female	Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"	Inspiration video

• Worgen in their human forms will do the human dance animations instead.

Horde races

Race and Gender		Dance Style	Reference
	Orc male	MC Hammer - "U Can't Touch This"	Inspiration Video
	Orc female	Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up"	Inspiration Video
	Troll male	Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts	Inspiration Video
	Troll female	Shakira - "Whenever, Wherever"	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	Reference Video
	Tauren male	Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Same as broken male.	Inspiration Video
	Tauren female	The Electric Slide	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.	Inspiration Video
	Goblin male	Soulja Boy - "Crank That"	Inspiration video
	Goblin female	Beyonce Knowles - "Single Ladies"	Inspiration video

Neutral

Race and Gender		Dance Style	Reference
	Pandaren male	LMFAO - "Party Rock Anthem"	Inspiration Video
	Pandaren female	Caramell - "Caramelldansen"	Inspiration Video
	Dracthyr	Possibly Sidebox Shuffling	Not available

• Dracthyr in their visage forms will do the male blood elf or female human dance animations instead.

Allied races

As the allied races use the framework of other core races, the Dark Iron dwarves, Mag'har orcs, Highmountain tauren, nightborne, void elves, and Lightforged draenei share the dances of the races they are based on. In the case of the Mechagnomes and vulpera, they take inspiration from the same sources; with the Mechagnome dances being flipped by gender, while the vulpera are different sections of the same dance.

Race and Gender		Dance Style	Reference
	Mechagnome	The Robot, a pop and lock dance that emulates the rigid movement ascribed to robotic entities in pop culture.	Not available
	Vulpera	Ylvis - "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"	Inspiration Video
	Zandalari Troll male	Presumably Jola Cutural dance, but no true version is known.	Not available
	Zandalari Troll female	Gwara Gwara - A popular south African dance.	Inspiration Video
	Kul Tiran male	Popularized dance from a parody video known as Mr Thiccman, by youtuber EvinEdits; though the original has since become more popular following its exposure.	Inspiration Video (Mr. Thiccman) / Inspiration Video (Original)
	Kul Tiran female	Their dance is referential to ballet dancing, though it does not appear to be a specific dance.	Not available

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
	Shaman		Glyph of the Spectral Raptor	A pair of simple moves associated with disco. Rolling arms, then pointing to the side with one arm, alternating sides.
	Druid		Moonkin	Chippendale dancer parody, as seen performed by Chris Farley in his famous Chippendale sketch with Patrick Swayze. Same as Ogre.	Inspiration Video
	Druid		Travel	Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King. Same as Druid Cat Form.	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		Cat	Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King. Same as Druid Travel Form.	Inspiration Video
	Druid		Tree of Life	Does The Twist, a dance popularized by singer Chubby Checker. Same as Snowman.	Inspiration Video
	Druid		Might of the Grizzlemaw

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, a clockwork giant, can be seen doing this dance.	Not available
	Baby Murloc	"Hello My Baby", 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.	Inspiration Video
	Murloc	"West Side Story"	Inspiration Video
	Broken Male	Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Same as tauren male. (Disguise: during the Black Temple attunement quest)	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])	Inspiration Video
	Arakkoa	Half-hearted The Twist (Disguise: [Shabby Arakkoa Disguise], [Time-Lost Figurine], or [Ahuurn's Elixir])	Not available
	Murloc Costume	Kozo the Dancing Hippo.	Not available
	Sprites	Soulja Boy - "Crank That", same as a Goblin male	Inspiration video
	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
	Maw guard	Same dance animation as the Kul Tiran male

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 ^{[dead link - archived copy]}

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:  WoW dance mix on Youtube

For a compilation of all the playable classes, plus races like ogres, go to  Wow dances (strangely excluding dwarves)

Notes

• The  [Piccolo of the Flaming Fire] and  [Party Totem] toys force the user and all nearby friendly players to dance.
• The dance studio was an announced feature for Wrath of the Lich King that would've allowed players to customize their character's dance animation, but the feature was never implemented.

See also

• Mailbox dancing
• Slashdance, TCG card
• The Slash Dance, a Lunarfall/Frostwall Shipyard ship