Dancing
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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. New dance cycles were originally announced for the release of the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and are still being advertised as a new feature thereof on their official website[1].
Here is the official statement from Blizzard:
It has not been dropped. Creating additional dances takes a significant amount of animation work and we want to make sure that when we do put them out, that they meet our standards. We still intend to put them in, but we have no current eta on their addition.
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 |
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Human female | Los del Río - "Macarena" | Inspiration video |
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Night elf male | Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" | Inspiration Video |
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Night elf female | Alizée - "J'en ai marre" | Inspiration Video with French and English Lyrics |
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Gnome male | Various parts of The Bad Touch-Bloodhound Gang | Inspiration Video |
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Gnome female | Presumably salsa, but like the male Gnome, no true version is known. | Not available |
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Dwarf male | Also Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing | Inspiration Video, you can see Dwarf Male dance at 1:46 |
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Dwarf female | Irish River Dance (Step-Dancing) | Irish Step-Dancing Example |
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Draenei male | Daler Mehndi - Modified bhangra from "Tunak Tunak Tun" video | Inspiration Video |
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Draenei female | Belly dancing based on Colombian singer Shakira | Shakira dancing |
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Worgen male | Justin Timberlake - "My Love") | Inspiration video |
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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 |
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Orc female | Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up" | Inspiration Video |
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Troll male | Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts | Inspiration Video |
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Troll female | Shakira - "Whenever, Wherever" | Inspiration Video |
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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 |
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Undead female | The "weeping willow" / Liquid dancing | Reference Video |
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Tauren male | Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Same as broken male. | Inspiration Video |
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Tauren female | The Electric Slide | Inspiration Video |
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Blood elf male | Napoleon Dynamite | Inspiration Video |
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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 |
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Goblin male | Soulja Boy - "Crank That" | Inspiration video |
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Goblin female | Beyonce Knowles - "Single Ladies" | Inspiration video |
Pandaren
| Race and Gender | Dance Style | Reference | |
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Pandaren male | LMFAO - "Party Rock Anthem" | Inspiration Video |
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Pandaren female | Caramell - "Caramelldansen" | Inspiration Video |
Shaman and druid forms
| Class | Form | Dance Style | Reference | ||
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Ghost Wolf | Standing on the hind legs and hopping from one leg to another (The Snoopy dance from the animated Peanuts movies) | Not available |
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Moonkin | Chippendale dancer parody, as seen performed by Chris Farley in his famous Chippendale sketch with Patrick Swazye. Same as Ogre. | Inspiration Video |
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Travel | Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King. Same as Druid Cat Form. | Inspiration Video |
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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 |
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Cat | Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King. Same as Druid Travel Form. | Inspiration Video |
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Tree of Life | Does The Twist, a dance popularized by singer Chubby Checker. Same as Snowman. | 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 |
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Goblin | Crossing legs and putting one hand on the ground, then the same on the other hand. (Disguise: [Hallowed Wand - Pirate]) | Not available |
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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, which uses the Fel Reaver wireframe, can be seen doing this dance. | Not available |
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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 |
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Broken Male | Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Same as tauren male. (Disguise: during the Black Temple attunement quest) | Inspiration Video |
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Skeleton | Metalhead; headbangs, plays air guitar, and jumps around. Same dance as male forsaken and wretched. (Disguise: [Noggenfogger Elixir]) | Not available |
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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 |
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Arakkoa | Half-hearted The Twist (Disguise: [Shabby Arakkoa Disguise], [Time-Lost Figurine], or [Ahuurn's Elixir]) | Not available |
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Murloc Costume | Kozo the Dancing Hippo. | Not available |
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Sprites | Soulja Boy - "Crank That" | Inspiration video |
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Wretched | Metalhead; headbangs, plays air guitar, and jumps around. Same dance as male forsaken and skeleton. | Not available |
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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)
