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Shut up and dance.

May 23rd, 2007

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  1. May 23rd, 2007 at 12:23 | #1

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

  2. Balasarius
    May 23rd, 2007 at 14:42 | #2

    GNOMES?!

    WHERE. ARE. THE. GNOMES?!

    The injustice.

  3. May 23rd, 2007 at 15:04 | #3

    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. Blackblade
    May 23rd, 2007 at 15:04 | #4

    … 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. scottj
    May 23rd, 2007 at 16:09 | #5

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

  6. May 23rd, 2007 at 18:53 | #6

    That ROCKED.

  7. May 23rd, 2007 at 19:25 | #7

    “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. May 23rd, 2007 at 20:41 | #8

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

  9. Amy Sage
    May 24th, 2007 at 00:25 | #9

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

  10. May 24th, 2007 at 10:09 | #10

    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. Mordur/Kwai
    May 24th, 2007 at 11:03 | #11

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

    tunak tunak tun!

  12. May 24th, 2007 at 15:52 | #12

    That was just brilliant. :)

  13. Oz
    May 24th, 2007 at 16:08 | #13

    The warcraft guys even have shadows…impressive!

  14. Xyntar
    May 25th, 2007 at 04:39 | #14

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

  15. Oz
    May 25th, 2007 at 09:39 | #15

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

  16. Walter Yarbrough
    May 25th, 2007 at 10:11 | #16

    The Moonkin form (druid) – has the same dance

  17. Blackblade
    May 25th, 2007 at 12:10 | #17

    “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. Simond
    May 25th, 2007 at 13:04 | #18

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

  19. scottj
    May 26th, 2007 at 00:27 | #19

    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. Walter Yarbrough
    May 27th, 2007 at 23:07 | #20

    “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. Xanthippe
    May 28th, 2007 at 10:58 | #21

    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. KaiTenSatsuma
    August 19th, 2007 at 21:25 | #22

    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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