Dance

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Dance is a continuous emote invoked using the /dance or /dancenew chat command. 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 there place, but will disappear once you move.
• Typing /dance * will allow you to synchronise several dancing people.
• The Nightfall Collector's Edition dance emulates the dance from Coming to America.
  

[edit] Warrior

Male

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.

Female

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. Video of Pulp Fiction Dance (YouTube).

[edit] Ranger

Male

This dance incorporates moves from locking and a power breakdancing move called a windmill.

Video of locking(YouTube).

Video of windmill(YouTube).

Female

Players with Avatar of Melandru active will use this dance.

[edit] Monk

Male

The monks dance possibly emulates Tai chi

Female

The female monk dance appears to derive from a Changquan (or Long Fist) form seen here(YouTube). Players with Avatar of Dwayna active will use this dance.

[edit] Necromancer

Male

This dance is more of a combination between headbanging and moshing rather than an actual dance.

Video of headbanging(YouTube). Players with Avatar of Grenth active will use this dance.

Female

This dance emulates Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Video of Thriller dance(YouTube). Players with Avatar of Sweetness active will use this dance.

[edit] Mesmer

Male

The male mesmer dance resembles Riverdance or Irish stepdance.

Video clips of Riverdance(Riverdance.com). Players with Avatar of Holiday Cheer active will use this dance.

Female

The female mesmer dance resembles the Spanish flamenco.

Video of flamenco dance(YouTube). Players with Avatar of Lyssa active will use this dance.

[edit] Elementalist

Male

This Dance is made up of various dance moves, which culminate in Elaine Benes's style of dancing in an episode of Seinfeld 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.
A YouTube video of Elaine dancing(YouTube), from "The Little Kicks".
This dance also takes some moves from "The Routine", a dance routine danced by Ross and Monica Geller in the TV series Friends.
A video of "The Routine" from the Friends episode "The One With The Routine"(YouTube).

Female

This dance emulates a version of the belly dance performed by Shakira from the song Ojos Asi. Video clip from live concert(YouTube) at around the 4 minute mark.

[edit] Assassin

Male

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. This dance also incorporates the Robot.
Video of Robot Dance(YouTube)
Video showing use of Photons(YouTube)
Video from the Film "Major Pain"(YouTube)

Female

This dance appears to be a style of dance called "tricking", popular in Europe. Also, the beginning of this dance is known as "skanking," a style of dancing known to be seen at punk or ska concerts. It is also the dance from the popular x box video game Jet Set Radio Future,

[edit] Ritualist

Male

This dance emulates that performed by John Heder in the movie "Napoleon Dynamite

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

Female

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

[edit] Paragon

Male

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

Female

The Female dance resembles a traditional African Tribal dance.

[edit] Dervish

Male

This dance emulates the dance done by Christopher Walken in the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice"

Female

The female dervish emulates the dance of Sufi whirling dervishes. An example of a whirling dervish can be found here (YouTube video). It also features elements of figure skating.

[edit] Junundu

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

[edit] 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, seen here (Youtube Video)

[edit] 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.