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->''"You're an angry dancer. I'm the same way."''
-->-- '''Creator/FredAstaire''' (to Music/MichaelJackson)

A person gets angry and then dances in order to express that anger. Rarely played seriously, as breakdancing and doing [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir the Carlton]] to show you're angry is not generally considered a very threatening approach.

A DanceBattler takes this trope to a logical conclusion, by beating people to death while grooving. If a sizable number of a ProudWarriorRace are doing this, it is likely a War Dance they're doing to hype themselves up into battle.

See also AngryMobSong, HairMetal, {{Nerdcore}}, RiskyBusinessDance.

Contrast with HappyDance and MatingDance. Compare DanceOfDespair and WorkingOutTheirEmotions.

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!!Examples
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Mashiro in ''Manga/EngagedToTheUnidentified'' does an angry dance [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8MIAW2vYhc here]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''Hate'', Buddy and Valerie are at a party after one of their bigger fights, and the drunker she gets, the more out of control she gets, and eventually she starts dancing:
-->"C'mon, you faggots! I'll dance with anyone who's name isn't Buddy Bradley!"
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'', Mumble angry-dances at Gloria when they have their lover's quarrel. Bonus points for scuffing snow at her.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'s'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc8crnqKEns warehouse sequence]].
* ''Film/HotRod'' parodies the sequence from ''Footloose''.
* ''Theatre/HedwigAndTheAngryInch''. That's enough anger for several inches.
* In ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', Andrew does this. Oddly enough, it's his reaction to getting stoned.
* ''Film/SundaySchoolMusical'', where the main character gets bad news and goes to the roof to briefly dance around all mad.
* In ''Film/DilToPagalHai'', a UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie, the [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]] dances in anger. It was called the "Dance of Envy".
* The ''Film/BringItOn'' series, most specifically, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw6uXYW6f4Q&feature=related "Krumping"]] from ''Bring It On: All or Nothing.''
* ''Film/BillyElliot'' managed to actually pull this trope off well, in the scene where he's angry-tapdancing to "A Town Called Malice" by the Jam.
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'':
** Zac Efron with "Bet on It", from ''High School Musical 2'', one of the most {{Narm}}tastic scenes of all time.
** He may have topped that one with the third movie's absolutely ridiculous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vESiQ201M5U "Scream"]].
* One of the last scenes of ''Film/SwingKids'' has Robert Sean Leonard doing one of these.
* The ''{{Film/Popeye}}'' movie has Bluto doing this, [[VillainSong singing about how mean he is]], and tearing down the Oyl family house [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhp1L9enr4 all at once]].
* In ''Film/OnceWereWarriors'' "Boogie Heke" does a Haka in a very powerful scene.
* In ''Film/BeastsOfNoNation'', the Commandant psyches up his ChildSoldiers to throw themselves into heavy fire by leading then in a war song and dance.
* Tina's [[https://youtu.be/739XYgoA-x8?t=42 dance]] in the opening scene of ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. The sequence is obviously meant to illustrate the anger in the community, the theme of "fighting" in the song, and the racially-motivated hatred on all sides in the neighborhood.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy]]'' books, this happens whenever Noddy gets extremely angry or sad. He would start angrily stamping around his house while singing a song called "Stamp! Stamp! Stamp!". This song was used in the 1950s audio reading by the author and 1971 and 1972 audio adaptation.
-->''Stamp, stamp stamp,''\\
''Stamp, stamp, stamp''\\
''I'm feeling sad today, I can't go out to play!''\\
'' Stamp, stamp, stamp''\\
'' Stamp, stamp, stamp''\\
''Stamp, stamp, stamp''\\
''Stamp, stamp, stamp''\\
''I'm a missy little Noddy, I'm not loved by anybody.''\\
''Stamp, stamp, stamp''\\
''Stamp, stamp, stamp''
* ''Literature/TouchingSpiritBear'': At one point, Cole performs the dance of anger, but not because he was particularly angry. He just had to do a dance every day, and the dance of anger was a very special dance that portrayed how he once felt.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMjgSkfQPSY "Bret's Angry Dance"]] from ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''. This song is instrumental, and is played when Bret starts dancing to vent his anger on being fired from the band. The dance closely follows the style of Kevin Bacon's angry dance in ''Film/{{Footloose}}''.
* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Liz suggests that a former classmate is gay at a class reunion. He replies by saying "I'm so mad all I can do is dance," and begins to do so.
* ''Series/PeepShow'': "Great. Now I'm getting an ''angry'' lap dance."
* ''Series/MadMen'': Ken ([[OnlySaneEmployee of all people]]) [[http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/05/20/itsmyjob.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg does an angry tapdance]] in the "The Crash" episode. He has the cane because he hurt his foot in a car crash caused by SCDP's client, and he's hopped up on some kind of drugs given to the whole office by a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Jacobson Dr. Feelgood]] type of guy, so he is not brimming with the milk of human kindness, but after all, IT'S HIS JOB!
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Bunheads}}''. Sasha has a dream sequence in which she expresses her anger towards her parents constant fighting and their emotional neglect of her in a dark and sensual dance but it's set to the light bouncy tune and silly lyrics of the ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'' version of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".
* Lampshaded in ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' when John gets furious at Nelle for being a snobby RichBitch. He dances frantically in his office and Richard comes in. He points out to John that it's his Angry Dance. John replies that HE'S ANGRY!
* In ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' Hanna pulls off one while prepping for the talent portion of a pagent. She was supposed to demostrate her skill to her coach, but instead she loses it in a {{Narm}} fit of rage crumping. Only barely MakesSenseInContext.
* Mike Chang has one in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' after [[EducationMama his father]] [[FantasyForbiddingFather forbids him]] from participating in the school production of Theatre/WestSideStory, and from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional dancer.
* Barry in ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' suggests that Erica do one like on ''Film/{{Footloose}}'', even though she complains that there's no such thing as angry dancing. He procedes to demonstrate by recreating Kevin Bacon's warehouse dance in the school gym.
* Parodied by Josh Chan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxMBMhCe9kE Angry Mad]] dance (and "song") in ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend''.
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield", starting [[https://youtu.be/IGVZOLV9SPo?t=3m20s here]].
* {{Music/Madonna}}'s video for "Human Nature".
* Music/MichaelJackson: Virtually every music video since ''Billie Jean''.
** The infamous "Panther Ending" from ''Black or White''.
* Played straight in Music/JustinBieber's [[http://vevo.ly/22UN7V "Love Yourself",]] in which a couple's passive-aggressive fighting over tiny things—hogging the blanket, making the bed, one closing the refrigerator just as the other tries to look in it—is elaborately choreographed.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* Happens a lot in Myth/HinduMythology. The God Shiva, who is both the Destroyer God and the God of Dance, danced a spectacularly angry dance, called Rudra Tandava, when his wife Sati immolated herself. It did not end too well for her tormentors.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* Ironically, ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/BillyElliot'' has an Act 1 Finale entitled "Angry Dance".
* In ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'', Buddy goes into an angry dance twice in "The Right Girl."
* The Waltz for Eva and Che in ''Music/{{Evita}}''
* Curiously ''not'' present in ''Theatre/{{Footloose}}''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Music/MichaelJackson seemed to do this a lot, in his music videos mentioned above, but most specifically in his [[VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker video game]], where he can defeat {{Mooks}} with his "Dance Magic".
* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', when having a 50x Combo Peppino's default idle animation becomes a [[https://i.imgur.com/2bpf5oZ.gif spastic dance]] and his walking animation turns into [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Moe Syzlak's]] [[https://i.imgur.com/lzxV8M7.gif "Funk Dancing for Self-Defense"]]. During the final boss, [[spoiler:when the boss forces him to go through a BossRush he becomes [[RageBreakingPoint so utterly furious]] that he's stuck in this animation for the rest of the fight]].
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* Platform/GoAnimate: Characters tend to do this a '''lot''' when they throw tantrums.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': In "[[Recap/WakfuS1E5TheMagnificentFive The Magnificent Five]]", the Bullies ([[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaur-like brutes]]) start a dance clearly reminiscent of a Haka before charging.
%%** So do the Sadida warriors in "[[Recap/WakfuS1E19TheSadidaKingdom The Sadida Kingdom]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'':
** In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E9GodRestYeMerryGentleMannequins God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins]]", Bob freaks out their deranged house guest when he tells him that [[BrutalHonesty he was never a mannequin, and the mannequin he loves is probably in a dump somewhere]]. Linda is furious at Bob.
--->'''Linda''': Oh, I'm so mad I could stomp!\\
'''Gene''': Do it, Mom! Do the stompy dance! She's doing it!
** In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E11EasyCommercialEasyGoMercial Easy Commercial, Easy Go-Mercial]]", the kids start angrily doing the Can-Can to spite their dad for almost completely cutting the rest of the family out of the big Super Bowl commercial they did for the restaurant. Then Linda starts doing it too, and even Bob gets caught up in the moment until he gets a cramp.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]]", the Sev'ral Timez are a batch of genetically engineered clones created for the purpose of being the perfect boy band. When Mabel demands that her friends be removed from the premises, the clones throw them out of her room by [[https://youtu.be/WL-MWPJvoKI?t=442 dancing aggressively]] and causing them to back out of the doorway.
* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': In "Daniel Can't Ride Trolley; Daniel Can't Get What He Wants", the characters use a strategy where they stomp their feet three times when they get angry.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' has one instance where Gir tells Gaz he will only do a favor for her if she dances. She refuses at first, but eventually cracks and does an angry stomp type of dance.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* The Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, have the Haka, famously used by the "All Blacks" rugby union team before each game. Not a literal war dance, as is often supposed: Māori culture has a specific ''haka'' for everything from weddings and funerals to welcoming foreign envoys. The All-Blacks actually have two separate ''hakas'', one traditional one that's much older than the team or even the sport ("Ka Mate," composed around 1820 by Te Rauparaha, chieftain of the Ngāti Toa tribe[[note]]Some Māori traditionalists are not at all happy about it only being known as "the rugby ''haka''", leading to some legal wrangling when the tribe from whom it originated tried to claim copyright.[[/note]]) and a somewhat longer one that was composed especially for the team.
* The Hawaii [Rainbow] Warriors, football team of the University of Hawaii, do a Haka before games, as do several other American college football teams with significant numbers of Pacific Islander players.
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