[World_of_Warcraft_List] Gnarly and CowHunah's WoW Dance Lexicon

 

Visuals of the WoW dances here:  http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/dancing.html

What we came up with here on this list!

Human Male - disco dance ala John Travolta
Human Female - the Macarena or the 'Cabbage Patch'

Male Night Elf - definitely Michael Jackson
Female Night Elf - Alizee (see vid link below)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7241005751760048737&q=alizee+warcraft

Male Dwarf - Russian 'Cossack' dance
Female Dwarf - Irish River Dances

Gnome Male - This one remains a total mystery!
Gnome Female - Don'tcha song from the Pussycat Dolls?  Salsa?

Blood Elf Male - Napoleon Dynamite dance.
Blood Elf Female - Brittany Spears hands down

Tauren Female - The Electric Slide or The Hustle
Tauren Male - Peanut Butter Jelly Time Song

Undead Male - Air Guitar to about any hard rock song!
Undead Female - Standard 'Goth Grrl' Sway?

Orc Male - MC Hammer
Orc Female - Toxic fits well to it?

Trolls Male - Jamaican Breakdancing or Brazilian Capoeira, like Eddy from Tekken
Troll Female -Shakira hip shaking to something

Draenei Female -
Draenei Male - Tunak Tunak Tun by Indian star Daler Mehndi  video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo

Where WoW dances came from videos:
        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBxWE_U7x2w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066_q4DIeqk

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1437495403342180406

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIdH5-LCALQ

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clip/world-of-warcraft-dancing-with-source-262312.php

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1760988

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/07/world_of_warcraft_dancing.php

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/62406/detail/

WHAT WOWWIKI CAME UP WITH:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Dancing

Alliance races

• Human male - John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever | Inspiration Video
• 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 - Origin and name unknown, earliest confirmed sighting is also MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" | Inspiration Video. It's the last dance in the video, as he walks up the stairs. (The dance clearly does *not* come from Caddyshack.)
• Gnome female - Salsa
• Dwarf male - Kazatchok, better known as the Cossack Dance (Russian Folkdance), also some Saturday Night Fever moves
• Dwarf female - Irish Step-Dancing | Irish Step-Dancing Example
• Draenei male - Daler Mehndi - "Tunak Tunak Tun" | Video Inspiration Video 2
• Draenei female - Belly dancing based on Colombian singer Shakira | Shakira dancing

Horde races

• Orc male - MC Hammer - "U Can't Touch This" | Inspiration Video
• Orc female - Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up" | Inspiration Video
• Troll male - Capoeira, Brazilian dance of African martial arts inspiration | Inspiration Video
• Troll female - Shakira - " Whenever, Wherever" | Inspiration Video
• Undead male - Mosher/Hardrocker (Headbanging, Pogo and Airguitar) or Death Metal
• Undead female - Goth-style dance (sometimes called the "weeping willow")
• Tauren male - Noodle dance / Raise the Roof / Peanut Butter Jelly Time | Inspiration Video
• Tauren female - The Electric Slide
• 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. More accurately, the dance was taken from a Korean "iDance" video. The dancer seems to take a few moves from Britney, but otherwise it should be stated that the choreography is hers.

Shaman and Druid forms

• Shaman (Ghost Wolf form) - Standing on the hind legs and hopping from one leg to another (The Snoopy dance from the animated Peanuts movies)
• Druid (Moonkin form) - Chris Farley in his famous Chippendale sketch with Patrick Swazye | Inspiration Video
• Druid (Travel form) - Scar's "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" from The Lion King.
• Druid (Bear form) - Stand up on hind legs, dance back and forth from foot to foot, then back down on all fours again.(in patch 1.10) - Bear dance from Dr.Dolittle II.
• Druid (Cat form) - Same as travel form.
• Druid (Tree of Life form) - Does "The Twist", a dance popularized by singer Chubby Checker.

Other races

• Ogre - Chris Farley, Chippendale Dancer Parody, same as Moonkin. (Disguise: [Gordok Ogre Suit])
• Goblin - Crossing legs and putting one hand on the ground, then the same on the other hand. (Disguise: [Hallow's End Candy])
• Fel Reaver - Unknown, involves deep knee bends/squats and touching the opposite foot. Only viewable using a model viewer, not yet known to occur in game. Looks more like an aerobic workout than a dance.^[1]
• Baby Murloc - "The Michigan Rag", 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 merlocs.^[2]
• Broken Male - Same as Tauren Male. During the Black Temple attunement quest, players don a broken disguise.
• Skeleton - Same dance as male forsaken. (Disguise: [Noggenfogger Elixir])
• Snowman - The Twist. (Disguise: [Winter Veil Disguise Kit])
• Arakkoa - Half-hearted The Twist (Disguise: [Shabby Arakkoa Disguise])
• Murloc Costume - Kozo the Sumo Hippo.^{[citation needed]}

Last but not least!

WoW Outlands Dancer Map?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBX5skXI1Lc

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