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 | |
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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"[1] | Inspiration video |
- Worgen in their human forms will do the human dance animations instead.
Horde races[]
Race and Gender | Dance Style | Reference | |
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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 | |
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Pandaren male | LMFAO - "Party Rock Anthem" | Inspiration Video | |
Pandaren female | Caramell - "Caramelldansen" | Inspiration Video | |
Dracythr | Possibly Sidebox Shuffling | Not available |
- Dracythr 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 | |
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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 | ||
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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 | 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 | Based on Pee Wee Herman's dance to the Champs' 1958 song "Tequila" in the 1985 movie "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." | [https--://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDb00Mx7D7g Inspiration Video] | ||
Druid | Hibernating Runebear | Based on Pee Wee Herman's dance to the Champs' 1958 song "Tequila" in the 1985 movie "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." | [https--://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDb00Mx7D7g Inspiration Video] |
Other races[]
Race | Dance Style | Reference | |
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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 |
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:
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.