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Shut up and dance.


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  1. #1 by Jason Ballew on May 23rd, 2007

    A large number of people had much more time than they really needed :)

  2. #2 by Balasarius on May 23rd, 2007

    GNOMES?!

    WHERE. ARE. THE. GNOMES?!

    The injustice.

  3. #3 by isildur on May 23rd, 2007

    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.

  4. #4 by Blackblade on May 23rd, 2007

    … 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.

  5. #5 by scottj on May 23rd, 2007

    The gopak (the Russian sit-and-kick dance) is already done by male dwarves.

  6. #6 by J. on May 23rd, 2007

    That ROCKED.

  7. #7 by CmdrSlack on May 23rd, 2007

    “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/

  8. #8 by Matthew on May 23rd, 2007

    Just a reminder of how much work and polish Blizzard puts into even the littlest of things.

  9. #9 by Amy Sage on May 24th, 2007

    Rats, I was hoping from the fuzzy thumbnail pic it was Dahler Mendi. :)

  10. #10 by yunk on May 24th, 2007

    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!

  11. #11 by Mordur/Kwai on May 24th, 2007

    Amy, it sort of is as the Draeni dance is modeled after him :)

    tunak tunak tun!

  12. #12 by Cameron Sorden on May 24th, 2007

    That was just brilliant. :)

  13. #13 by Oz on May 24th, 2007

    The warcraft guys even have shadows…impressive!

  14. #14 by Xyntar on May 25th, 2007

    I love Blizzard so much right now for the Ogre dance.

  15. #15 by Oz on May 25th, 2007

    Getting your own ogre illusion is pretty much an exercise in ebay skills, however.

  16. #16 by Walter Yarbrough on May 25th, 2007

    The Moonkin form (druid) – has the same dance

  17. #17 by Blackblade on May 25th, 2007

    “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…

  18. #18 by Simond on May 25th, 2007

    Couple more:
    Male troll: Capoeira
    Female troll: Shakira in the “Whenever, wherever” video.

  19. #19 by scottj on May 26th, 2007

    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

  20. #20 by Walter Yarbrough on May 27th, 2007

    “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

  21. #21 by Xanthippe on May 28th, 2007

    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.

  22. #22 by KaiTenSatsuma on August 19th, 2007

    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?

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