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*ForcedDancePartner: Being forced/pressured to dance.

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* BellyDancer: Someone dances in a flashy, revealing outfit. If it's a woman, it's played for titillation, and if it's a man, it's played for comedy.


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* SultryBellyDancer: Someone dances in a flashy, revealing outfit. If it's a woman, it's played for titillation, and if it's a man, it's played for comedy.
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* DeathTrapTango: A lot of {{Durable Deathtrap}}s can be overcome with precise movements.
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* AccidentalDanceCraze: Someone is itching themselves, wriggling, etc. and is mistaken for dancing which starts a dance craze.

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* AccidentalDanceCraze: Someone is itching scratching themselves, wriggling, etc. and is mistaken for dancing which starts a dance craze.
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[[caption-width-right:260:''[[Music/SamSmith Look what you made me do\\
I need somebody new\\
Oh, baby, baby, I'm dancing with a stranger]]'']]
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* BonfireDance: A scene involving dancing near a campfire as a celebration.
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* LetsHaveACeilidh: Characters have a ''ceilidh'', which is a party involving Scottish country dancing.
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* ThePromPlot: The high school junior/senior gala where people dance, mingle and are elected prom queen and king.
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* FloorfillingSongAndDance: Everyone gets up to dance along to a song with specific actions.
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+ UsefulNotes.{{Dancers}}
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* DreamBallet: A dance sequence, especially a ballet, that is AllJustADream.
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* TutuFancy: The unrealistic outfit of choice for ballerinas.
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* DerangedDance: Dancing is a sign of mental illness and descents into madness.
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* DerangedDance: A character dances as a sign of failing sanity.
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* BallroomBlitz: When combined with a FightScene.
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* DerangedDance: A character dances as a sign of failing sanity.
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* ActuallyQuiteCatchy: Somebody is shown enjoying a bit of music that you wouldn't expect them to like because they dislike the singer; the music mocks them; or they're the ComicallySerious.


->''"Bacchus, who, clad in fawnskins, leaps and bounds''\\
''With torch and thyrsus in the choral dance Along Parnassus."''
-->-- '''A fragment from the prologue of ''[[{{Creator/Euripides}} Hypsipyle]]''''', as quoted in ''[[{{Creator/Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''
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* EverythingHasRhythm: Dancing with an inanimate object.
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[[quoteright:260:[[Disney/{{Cinderella}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cinderella_and_prince_dancing_through_the_night.jpg]]]]

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* LetsHaveACeilihd: Characters have a ''ceilidh'', which is a party involving Scottish country dancing.

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* LetsHaveACeilihd: LetsHaveACeilidh: Characters have a ''ceilidh'', which is a party involving Scottish country dancing.

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* AccidentalDanceCraze
* AngryDance
* BalletEpisode
* BellyDancer
* BoogieKnights
* BulletDancing
* CharityBall
* ChippendalesDancers
* ChoreographyPorn
* ConvenientSlowDance
* CreepyBallet
* DaintyLittleBalletDancers
* DanceBattler
* DanceLine
* DancesAndBalls
* DanceOfDespair
* DanceOfRomance
* DanceOff
* DancePartyEnding
* DanceSensation
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness
* DancingMookCredits
* DancingOnABus
* DancingRoyalty
* DancingTheme
* DancingWithMyself
* TheDeadCanDance
* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop
* HappyDance
* HighSchoolDance
* ICantDance
* InvoluntaryDance
* LetsHaveACeilidh
* MagicDance
* MasqueradeBall
* MatingDance
* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody
* MoonwalkDance
* TheMusicMeister
* NudeNatureDance
* PelvicThrust
* PromWrecker
* RainDance
* RiskyBusinessDance
* ShakingTheRump
* SpoofingInTheRain
* SquirrelsInMyPants
* StayingAliveDancePose
* StraightToThePointe
* SucksAtDancing
* SummonBackupDancers
* ThatRussianSquatDance
* VampireDance
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn
* YouSaidYouCouldntDance

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* AccidentalDanceCraze
AccidentalDanceCraze: Someone is itching themselves, wriggling, etc. and is mistaken for dancing which starts a dance craze.
* AngryDance
AngryDance: A character dances because they're angry.
* BalletEpisode
BalletEpisode: An episode focusing on ballet.
* BellyDancer
BellyDancer: Someone dances in a flashy, revealing outfit. If it's a woman, it's played for titillation, and if it's a man, it's played for comedy.
* BoogieKnights
BoogieKnights: Dancing in a suit of armour.
* BulletDancing
BulletDancing: A character shoots several times and another character moves in a dance-like way to avoid being shot.
* CharityBall
CharityBall: A dance done to raise money for charity.
* ChippendalesDancers
ChippendalesDancers: Male strippers who dance for women.
* ChoreographyPorn
ChoreographyPorn: An intricately-described dance.
* ConvenientSlowDance
ConvenientSlowDance: A slow dance comes up just as two people are becoming a couple.
* CreepyBallet
CreepyBallet: Ballet is PlayedForHorror.
* DaintyLittleBalletDancers
DaintyLittleBalletDancers: Ballet dances are ethereal and delicate.
* DanceBattler
DanceBattler: A character whose fighting looks like dancing.
* DanceLine
DanceLine: Characters start dancing because they were pulled in.
* DancesAndBalls
DancesAndBalls: A society dance is a plot point.
* DanceOfDespair
DanceOfDespair: A character dances to try to cheer themselves up when they're very sad.
* DanceOfRomance
DanceOfRomance: Characters are friends or even mere acquaintances until they start slow-dancing, whereupon they'll fall in love.
* DanceOff
DanceOff: A character has a dance fight with their rival.
* DancePartyEnding
DancePartyEnding: The work ends with a huge, collective Happy Dance, complete with music.
* DanceSensation
DanceSensation: A song about a dance.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness
DancingIsSeriousBusiness: The plot is serious, there's no musical numbers, and they're not at a ball or anything, yet characters are dancing anyway.
* DancingMookCredits
DancingMookCredits: The ending credits show villains dancing.
* DancingOnABus
DancingOnABus: Singing and dancing on a bus or train.
* DancingRoyalty
DancingRoyalty: Characters who suck at most things but are great dancers.
* DancingTheme
DancingTheme: Random dance sequences in comedies.
* DancingWithMyself
DancingWithMyself: Dancing solo.
* TheDeadCanDance
TheDeadCanDance: Undead characters dancing.
* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop
EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop: Cartoon dancing looks stilted due to either repetition, not following the music, looking like the wrong kind of dance (for instance, a tango looking like a waltz) or a combination.
* HappyDance
FamilyFriendlyStripper: An exotic dancer who always has the important parts covered.
* HighSchoolDance
HappyDance: Dancing out of happiness.
* ICantDance
HighSchoolDance: Plots about high or middle school dances, usually involving romance.
* InvoluntaryDance
ICantDance: A character is required to dance but is embarrassed to and/or doesn't know how.
* LetsHaveACeilidh
InvoluntaryDance: A character is forced to dance.
* MagicDance
LetsHaveACeilihd: Characters have a ''ceilidh'', which is a party involving Scottish country dancing.
* MasqueradeBall
MagicDance: A magic spell that requires certain movements to activate.
* MatingDance
MasqueradeBall: Fancy rich people have masquerade balls.
* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody
MatingDance: A dance that looks sexual.
* MoonwalkDance
MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: A parody of "Thriller" by Music/MichaelJackson.
* TheMusicMeister
MoonwalkDance: Characters dance by moonwalking-- walking backwards but it seems like you're going forwards.
* NudeNatureDance
TheMusicMeister: Characters who cause spontaneous dancing or singing.
* PelvicThrust
NudeNatureDance: A NatureLover dances outside in the buff.
* PromWrecker
PelvicThrust: Thrusting one's pelvis out to be crass or sexual.
* RainDance
PottyDance: A character does dance-like movements because they need to go to the bathroom.
* RiskyBusinessDance
PromWrecker: A character who hates the prom and tries to sabotage it.
* ShakingTheRump
RainDance: One or more characters dance to try to convince God (or whatever gods they worship) to make it rain.
* SpoofingInTheRain
RiskyBusinessDance: A character who is home alone dances like a goof, usually in their underwear.
* SquirrelsInMyPants
ShakingTheRump: Shaking one's butt.
* StayingAliveDancePose
SpoofingInTheRain: A parody of either the movie ''Film/SingingInTheRain'' or the song upon which the movie is based.
* StraightToThePointe
SquirrelsInMyPants: A character moves in a dance-like way to try to get small animals out of their clothes.
* SucksAtDancing
StayingAliveDancePose: Characters dance by pointing at the sky, sometimes paired with the song "Staying Alive".
* SummonBackupDancers
StraightToThePointe: Fictional ballet dancers dance on tiptoe a lot.
* ThatRussianSquatDance
SucksAtDancing: An incompetent dancer who thinks they can dance.
* VampireDance
SummonBackupDancers: Characters who aren't magical, but can still summon backup dancers seemingly out of nowhere.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn
ThatRussianSquatDance: The dance where characters squat down with their arms folded and kick their legs.
* YouSaidYouCouldntDanceVampireDance: Vampires love to dance.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: A character dances and starts to strip.
* YouSaidYouCouldntDance: A character (usually a man) can dance but apparently said they couldn't.
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* CreepyBallet

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