Shut up and dance.
May 23rd, 2007
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GNOMES?!
WHERE. ARE. THE. GNOMES?!
The injustice.
No video I’ve seen has tracked down the female undead dance, so I’m here to tell you: it’s how goth chicks dance in goth clubs.
Or at least, how they danced back in the mid-90s. After a decade, I can’t even be sure there are goth clubs anymore.
… Awsome. Nice find.
I’m surprised they modeled the Draeni dance they way they did, rather then the Russian dance where they sit-and-kick. The tail would have given them excellent balance, and would have fit better with the accent.
Still funny.
The gopak (the Russian sit-and-kick dance) is already done by male dwarves.
That ROCKED.
“Or at least, how they danced back in the mid-90s. After a decade, I can’t even be sure there are goth clubs anymore.”
They still do, at least on some nights….
http://neo-chicago.com/
Just a reminder of how much work and polish Blizzard puts into even the littlest of things.
Rats, I was hoping from the fuzzy thumbnail pic it was Dahler Mendi.
holy cow club neo is still around? Wait I just looked there, skinny puppy is still around too?
I am old. I live just north of there, and last year I saw some kid with blue hair and thought “doesn’t he care about what he looks like? How’s he going to find a job?” I have become my dad!
Amy, it sort of is as the Draeni dance is modeled after him
tunak tunak tun!
That was just brilliant.
The warcraft guys even have shadows…impressive!
I love Blizzard so much right now for the Ogre dance.
Getting your own ogre illusion is pretty much an exercise in ebay skills, however.
The Moonkin form (druid) – has the same dance
“The gopak (the Russian sit-and-kick dance)”
.. How in the world did you know that’s what it was called? That’s a Jeapordy! question in the making right there.
Incidently, I googled “russian dance sit kick”.. Guess what site came up first? It must be reassuring to know you’ll get traffic for oddly-phrased trivia questions.
“..is already done by male dwarves.”
Gah! Completely forgot about that.. Even after watching it… The mind slips with age and all…
Couple more:
Male troll: Capoeira
Female troll: Shakira in the “Whenever, wherever” video.
For the record:
Human:
Male: John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever
Female: Macarena, while drunk
Night Elf:
Male: Michael Jackson, Bille Jean
Female: Alizee
Dwarf:
Male: traditional Cossack dance (I was wrong, the “Gopak” is Ukrainian and is the one where the dancers do vertical leaps while kicking outward)
Female: Riverdance, traditional Irish dance
Gnome:
Male: modern disco
Female: modern salsa
(no one can find the source videos for these which is probably why it wasn’t in this video)
Draenei:
Male: Daler Mendhi, pure awesomeness
Female: Belly dancing (Wowwiki credits it to Shakira)
Orc:
Male: MC Hammer, “Can’t Touch This”
Female: Modern hiphop (Wowwiki credits it to Juvenile’s backup dancers in “Back that azz up”)
Troll:
Male: Capoeria
Female: Shakira, “Whenever Wherever”
Undead:
Male: Headbanger
Female: Goth
Tauren:
Male: “Raise the Roof”
Female: Electric Slide
Blood Elf:
Male: Napoleon Dynamite
Female: Korean teen imitating Britney Spears (as seen in video)
Wowwiki has some source videos (some of which are out of date) linked here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Dancing
“Gnome:
Male: modern disco
Female: modern salsa
(no one can find the source videos for these which is probably why it wasn’t in this video)”
I always thought these two were sync’d up versions of ‘Doin da butt’ – course I can’t find any source video that’s close
Female undead: Goth?
Although I don’t exactly know what Goth dancing is, I’m pretty sure that the female undead dance was taken from female deadheads dancing at Grateful Dead shows.
Am I the only one who thinks that the dance from Napoleon Dynamite looks much much more…gay, for lack of a better word, with the blood elves?