Basic Trope: A person unskilled in dance, but capable of some other body movement skill like combat, uses that skill to impress people in a dance environment.
- Straight: Alice the martial artist goes through a complex martial arts kata as a performance to win a dance contest.
- Exaggerated: Alice wins the dance contest whilst having armed mooks seriously attack her as part of the routine.
- Downplayed: Alice composes her own dance moves inspired from her martial arts, but the end result is clearly a dance rather than a kata.
- Justified: Alice uses her martial arts skills because she knows that the judges don't have a good understanding of either dance or martial arts and are only looking for energy and precision.
- Inverted: Dance Battler
- Subverted: Alice has excellent kinesthetics in their martial routines but is a very clumsy when it comes to dance.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Somebody suggests that Alice use a martial arts kata instead of dancing normally, but Alice declines saying that it would be obvious that she was just doing air punches.
- Enforced: Alice's actress is known to be a terrible dancer but a good martial artist and lacking the time, her dance number in an episode is recut with martial arts movements that look dance-like.
- Lampshaded: Bob points out that there's no way in which the judges won't notice that Alice is just doing martial arts.
- Invoked: Alice's dance trainer intentionally teaches her martial arts instead of traditional dancing because the dance scene has become stale and needs a new approach.
- Exploited: Alice, is allowed to compete only so that she can be used as an example of why dance training is necessary.
- Defied: Alice knows that she could do quite well in the dance contest using her martial arts skills, but decides to learn a traditional dance style instead to prove she is capable of doing so.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice competes and wins the dance contest on her martial skills alone, but her lack of range and inability to understand the fundamentals of dance relegate her success to a one-hit wonder.
- Reconstructed: Alice competes and wins the dance contest on her martial skills alone, but her lack of range and inability to understand the fundamentals of dance relegate her success to a one-hit wonder. Off of her failure she then reflects and begins to train in both martial arts and dance for their mutual synergies and develops a new dance form inspired by that journey.
- Played For Laughs: Alice accidentally punches somebody during her routine.
