Dance

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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.

/dancenew is only available as Assassin, Ritualist, Dervish and Paragon.

• While in certain forms, the /dance emote will show a line in the chat window, but will have no visible effect.
• 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, and continue to dance, but will disappear once you move.
• Typing /dance * or /dancenew * will allow you to synchronize several dancing people, if all who have typed /dance * or /dancenew * have pressed the Enter button within 5 seconds of each other.
• The Nightfall Collector's Edition dance (/dancenew) emulates the dance from Coming to America.
  
• Typing /dance after typing /dancenew with a Dervish or Paragon will cause the character to keep the animation (Discoball or Lightorb), and dance their original dance.
• Typing /dancenew after typing /dance with an Assassin or Ritualist will cause the character to retain the Divine Aura effect while also displaying the complete special edition dance for that profession.
  • Typing a continuous emote (i.e. /bowhead) after typing /dancenew will also cause the character (Paragon or Dervish) to continue their dance animation, for as long as the character does not move, or end the emote.
• Typing /dancenew without having the collector's edition dance unlocked, or as one of the original 6 professions, will cause the character to dance their original dance, instead of the collector's edition dance.

Profession-dependent

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.

• Male Warrior Dance or click image.

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)
• Female Warrior Dance or click image.

Ranger

Male

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

• Video of locking (YouTube)
• Male Ranger Dance or click image.

Female

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

• Female Ranger Dance or click image.

Monk

Male

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

• Video of tai chi (YouTube)
• Video of capoeira (YouTube)
• Male Monk Dance or click image.

Female

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.

• Video of Changquan (YouTube)
• Female Monk Dance or click image.

Necromancer

Male

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.

• Video of headbanging (YouTube).
• Male Necromancer Dance or click image.

Female

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

• Video of Thriller dance (YouTube).
• Female Necromancer Dance or click image.

Mesmer

Male

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

• Video clips of Riverdance (Youtube)
• Male Mesmer Dance or click image.

Female

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

• Video of flamenco dance (YouTube)
• Female Mesmer Dance or click image.

Elementalist

Male

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.
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).
• Male Elementalist Dance or click image.

Female

This dance emulates a version of the belly dance. One example is the belly dance performed by Shakira during live performances of Ojos Así.

• Female Elementalist Dance or click image.
• Video of Ojos Así belly dance (YouTube).

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 and the robot. The first part of this dance is taken from a dance performed by Will Smith during a Fresh Prince of Bel Air episode.

• Video of robot dance (YouTube)
  
• Video showing use of photons (YouTube)
  

No longer available - Video of robot dance from "Major Payne" (YouTube)

• Video of Will Smith dance (YouTube)
• Male Assassin Dance or click image.

Female

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.

• Female Assassin Dance or click image.

Ritualist

Male

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

• Video of the Napoleon Dynamite Dance Scene (YouTube)
• Male Ritualist Dance or click image.

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.

• Female Ritualist Dance or click image.

Paragon

Male

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

• Video of Beat It (YouTube)
• Male Paragon Dance or click image.

Female

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

• Female Paragon Dance or click image.

Dervish

Male

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

• Video of Weapon of Choice (YouTube)
• Male Dervish Dance or click image.

Female

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

• Video of whirling dervish (YouTube).
• Female Dervish Dance or click image.

Other

Junundu

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

• Junundu Dance or click image.

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)
• Rollerbeetle Dance or click image.

Siege Devourer / Trained Devourer

Siege Devourers and Trained Devourers will just jump, then start side-walking left and right, while snapping its pincers as if it were 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.

• Siege Devourer Dance or click image.

Abaddon

If you do the /dance emote in front of Abaddon, before aggroing his Monoliths, he will do a segment of the Warrior Male dance, shortly before your whole party automatically dies, and a message will show on the screen, saying, "You Got Served."

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