History Main / AngryDance

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* Website/GoAnimate: Characters tend to do this a '''lot''' when they throw tantrums.

People can dance at anytime with any feeling. Some dance when they are happy. Some dance when they are blue. Some dance when they sleepwalk. Some dance if they can do. Some dance with greed, some dance with please. Some dance with hypnotism. And then there are these.

* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', when having a 50x Combo Peppino's default idle animation becomes a spastic dance based on [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Moe Syzlak's]] "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]].

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

A person gets angry and then dances in order to express that anger. Rarely played seriously, as it's not generally considered a very dignified approach.

* ''Stomp''. [[AngryBlackMan Angry Black Men]] dance about.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': In "Daniel Can't Ride Trolley; Daniel Can't Get What He Wants", the characters use a strategy where they stomp their feed three times when they get angry.

[[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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* ''Sunday School Musical'', where the main character gets bad news and goes to the roof to briefly dance around all mad

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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Wakfu}}''
** In season 1 episode 5, the Bullies ([[ALoadOfBull minotaur-like brutes]]) start a dance clearly reminiscent of a Haka before charging.
** So do the Sadida warriors in season 1 episode 19.

** In "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.

** In "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'' brings us Sev'ral Timez from "Boyz Crazy". They 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.

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* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'s'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc8crnqKEns warehouse sequence]]

* Happens a lot in Myth/HinduMythology. The God Shiva, who is both the God the Destroyer and the God of Dance, danced a spectacularly angry dance, called Rudra Tandava, when his wife Sati immolated herself. It does not end too well for her tormentors.

** In "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 up until he gets a cramp.

* 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 where it originated tried to claim copyright.[[/note]]) and a somewhat longer one that was composed especially for the team.