Dance

Dance is a continuous emote invoked using the /dance or /dancenew chat command or by using the respective localized version for your language. Each gender of each profession has their own dance. Also a disguise, form, or tonic can temporarily change your dance.


 * If you do the Collector's Edition dance with the Assassin or Ritualist and Shadow step away your background dancers will stay in their place, but will disappear once you move.
 * Typing /dance * will allow you to synchronize several dancing people.
 * The Nightfall Collector's Edition dance (/dancenew) emulates the dance from Coming to America.
 * While in certain forms, the /dance emote will show a line in the chat window, but will have no visible effect.

Warrior
This dance is a combination of John Travolta dance moves from Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. Players with Avatar of Balthazar active will use this dance.
 * Male

Video of Saturday Night Fever dance (YouTube)

The female warrior dance emulates the dive, a popular dance style in the '60s. It was also seen in the movie Pulp Fiction when Uma Thurman's character, Mia, dances.
 * Female

Video of Pulp Fiction dance (YouTube).

Ranger
This dance incorporates moves from locking and a breakdancing power move called the windmill.
 * Male

Video of locking (YouTube).

Video of windmill (YouTube).

This dance features many common cheerleading moves, as seen at sporting events worldwide. Players with Avatar of Melandru active will use this dance.
 * Female

Monk
The male monk's dance possibly emulates a combination of tai chi and capoeira.
 * Male

Video of tai chi (YouTube)

Video of capoeira (YouTube)

The female monk dance appears to derive from a Changquan (or Long Fist) form. This particular dance is used by Zhang Ziyi in House of the Flying Daggers. Players with Avatar of Dwayna active will use this dance.
 * Female

Video of Changquan (YouTube)

Necromancer
This dance is a combination between headbanging and moshing. Players with Avatar of Grenth active will use this dance. This is the only dance where the player's weapon is still displayed.
 * Male

Video of headbanging (YouTube).

This dance emulates Michael Jackson's Thriller. Players with Avatar of Sweetness active will use this dance.
 * Female

Video of Thriller dance (YouTube).

Mesmer
The male mesmer dance resembles Riverdance or Irish stepdance. Players with Avatar of Holiday Cheer active will use this dance.
 * Male

Video clips of Riverdance (Riverdance.com).

The female mesmer dance resembles the Spanish flamenco. Players with Avatar of Lyssa active will use this dance.
 * Female

Video of flamenco dance (YouTube).

Elementalist
This dance uses moves from two tv series, Seinfeld and Friends. which culminate in Elaine Benes's style of dancing from the episode entitled "The Little Kicks". This dance is unique in that it does not loop from the very beginning; instead, it loops from the start of the "little kicks" segment, as pictured.
 * Male

The other dance moves come from "The Routine", a dance routine danced by Ross and Monica Geller in Friends.

Video of Elaine dancing (YouTube).

Video of "The Routine" (YouTube).

This dance emulates a version of the belly dance performed by Shakira from the song Ojos Asi.
 * Female

Assassin
This type of dance is called Popping. The assassin Divine Aura, in addition to resembling shuriken, resemble photons used in some street dances. The dance also contains the "Moonwalk" as made famous by Michael Jackson and the robot.
 * Male

Video of robot dance (YouTube) Video showing use of photons (YouTube) Video of robot dance from "Major Payne" (YouTube)

This dance appears to have moves from street acrobatic martial art style called "tricking". Also, the beginning of this dance is known as "skanking," a style of dancing known to be seen at punk or ska concerts. This dance is perfectly in time with 'Hello' by Martin Solveig
 * Female

Ritualist
This dance emulates that performed by Jon Heder in the movie Napoleon Dynamite
 * Male

Video of someone imitating the dance from the film (YouTube)

This is a form of interpretive dance, most often done with a ball, but also called balance dancing as seen in Cirque du Soleil.
 * Female

Paragon
This dance emulates the dance performed by Michael Jackson in the music video for "Beat It".
 * Male

Video of Beat It (YouTube)

The Female dance resembles a traditional African tribal dance. A segment can be seen in video for song "Alane" by Wes.
 * Female

Dervish
This dance emulates the dance done by Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice"
 * Male

Video of Weapon of Choice (YouTube)

The female dervish emulates the dance of Sufi whirling dervishes. It also features elements of figure skating and ballet.
 * Female

Video of whirling dervish (YouTube).

Junundu
The junundu will just wiggle its head from side to side.

Rollerbeetle Racer
The animation used for the rollerbeetle racers is a mixture of the popular dance move called "Raise the Roof" where you push your hands up to the ceiling in time with a beat, and the popular breakdancing spin - the back spin.

Video of back spin (YouTube)

Siege Devourer / Trained Devourer
Siege Devourers and Trained Devourers will just jump, then start side-walking left and right, while snapping its pincers like if it where snapping fingers or playing castanets. When Trained Devourers dance, they have the same spotlight and confetti / sparkles effects as Paragons performing the Collector's Edition dance.