Dance

This page gives a brief explanation of the various dances which can be performed by the /dance emote.


 * In PvP it is possible to hold any item while dancing (such as a Flag)

Male

 * The male warrior dance involves pelvic thrusting, drawing the hands across the eyes, full-body swaying, and spinning.
 * This dance is a mixture of various dances John Travolta has done in his movies, including Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction.

Female

 * The female warrior dance involves swaying, drawing the hands across the eyes, and "swimming" motions.
 * This dance is Uma Thurman's dance from the movie Pulp Fiction.

Male

 * The male ranger dance is a form of breakdancing, involving slight swaying and clapping followed by full body spinning on the ground.

Female

 * This dance could be described as "pole dancing without the pole". It involves a lot of hip gyration and seductive moves.
 * These are actually a series of disco dance moves popular in the 1970's.
 * This dance was performed by Beyonce Knowles in her video "Crazy in Love".

Male

 * The male monk dance is very graceful, resembling yoga, tai-chi or other fluid exercise.
 * More than constant motion, it involves shifting to and from various poses in an extremely fluid manner.

Female

 * The female monk dance is a short section from the Chinese Wushu Chang quan. Which means Long fist.
 * Again, like the male, her dance involves graceful shifting among various poses, but she tends to move more than the male, especially involving spins.

Male

 * The male elementalist starts out slowly, shifting his weight from side to side, then eventually becoming more and more absorbed into the "music," so to speak, eventually doing the "Dry Heave" from Seinfeld: sticking out his thumbs, leaning backwards, and snapping his head around while making little kicks similar to the Rumba train (like in the movie The Mask).
 * The male elementalist dance is unique in that the dance doesn't fully repeat. The beginning sequence of the dance happens once, and then there's a very short section at the end that cycles.  The dances for all other genders and characters repeat the entire dance routine once they get to the end.
 * The Elementalist does a series of dances popular in the 1980's, including one by Bill Cosby in the opening titles to The Cosby Show.

Female

 * The female elementalist dance is a bellydance. It starts with the gyration of the hips accompanied by a wave motion of the arms right and left, then the hands are lifted up and brought down before the chest in concealing move, then the infamous breast shake(shimme), first leaning back, then leaning forward.

Male

 * The male mesmer holds his arms stiff and dances with his feet alone, similar to the style of Riverdance or traditional Irish step dancing.
 * It has been said that there are too many inconsistencies to call this dance a true Irish Step Dance or Riverdance, and more than anything it resembles the mesmer playing Dance Dance Revolution. The jump made at the end of each dance "cycle" is often cited as evidence of this.

Female

 * The female mesmer dance is almost exactly like the male mesmer dance. She holds her upper body in a slightly different position but nonetheless keeps it stiff, dancing with her legs alone.

Male

 * The male necromancer's dance is better described as "rocking out" than actual dancing. While holding up his hand in the shape of "the horns," the necromancer violently headbangs, eventually moving from headbanging with just his neck to his whole upper body, and eventually jumping wildly around.


 * This dance is unique in that the Necromancer is able to hold any weapon or PvE item (such as a gear) while dancing outside an outpost.

Female

 * The female necromancer's dance involves slides and lunges, stylized looking from side to side, a waving of the arms in "claw" position, and stalking around with arms raised in front of one's self.
 * This dance is the same as Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Male

 * The Robot

Female
 
 * This dance begins with Skanking, a form of dance that came about in the 1950's to 1960's in the jamaican dancehall scene, then ends with a high-flying backflip.
 * With the Collector's Edition of Factions, using the /dancenew emote will add two backup dancers in the form of Shadow Assassins

Male

 * Napoleon Dynamite

Female
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 * Bellydance, also some aspects of channeling spirits
 * Dance is more of a mix of Yoga, including some portions of the Sun Salute
 * With the Collector's Edition of Factions, using the /dancenew emote will add two backup dancers in the form of spirits.

Note

 * To access the special dance emotes packaged with the Collector's Edition of Factions, use the /dancenew emote.
 * It's not widely known that /dancenew is a command available to all characters and classes; Prophecies and Factions, with or without the Collector's Edition, however non-assassin or -ritualist characters will resort to their usual /dance routine, and non-Collector's Edition assassins and ritualists will run through their /dancenew routines without the shadow/spirit backing dancers. It is therefore possible to synchronise /dancenew routines even across classes and indeed different Guild Wars products with /dancenew *. /dance * and /dancenew * will not synch.
 * For assassins and ritualists, the /dancenew routine has certain differences to their usual /dance routines, including the "summoning" animation at the start and a few minor in-dance variations. For instance, during the male assassin dance there's a part where the dancer is pulled upright like a puppet on strings and is then "cut" from those strings - In the /dance, the assassin does this himself with his own hands, while in the /dancenew he allows the two shadows to do this; one pulling and one cutting.