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Some media works feature people dancing. This makes a whole lot of sense when the scene is set in a nightclub, a prom, or even a concert. Other times, however, there is an elaborate plot going on upon which the story is concentrating, and there's no time for frivolity because serious business is afoot. And yet dancing has been shoved in there somewhere, even when it feels (or at least should feel) out of place. Very common in music videos and in films that are about dancing. This trope does not generally apply to musicals (see the Musical World Hypotheses), but it could do if the dancing is diegetic and the plot revolves around it. Naturally a Sub-Trope of Serious Business. May feature an Angry Dance. |
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C Me Dance is about a girl whose faith in God is apparently dependent on her ability to dance. When she can't dance due to some rare blood disease, she loses faith. Her father prays that she returns to Christianity and regains the strength to fulfill her dream of dancing. God apparently not only obliges by making her better, He makes her gift of dance so great that people who see her dance apparently have religious epiphanies and convert to Christianity instantly! Satan, upset by her ability to bring people to God that easily, then aims all his evil energy at preventing her from dancing. It should be noted that this film is not a parody or a comedy; they were trying to be serious. Quite clearly, Dancing Is Serious Business. | |
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Miss Price saves the children in Bedknob and Broomstick from a Cannibal Tribe by having a magic-infused dance-off against the tribe's shaman. | |
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In Sid Meier's Pirates!, formal balls are an integral component of the Romance Sidequest with Governors' daughters, and the player character needs to perform adequately on the dance floor in order to impress the daughter enough to develop their relationship. | |
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In the middle of Footloose, Ren McCormick invades a train-yard just so he can work his dancing Angst out. And impress the girl, apparently. | |
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Another Cinderella Story. It's a modern version of Cinderella (see above), so it actually makes sense to be about a dancer. | |
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The We Bare Bears short "Panda's Dream" features a series of increasingly bizarre daydreams by Panda about dealing with a guy who cut in line at the game store, which culminates in a K-Pop dance-off. | |
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If the Investigation Team in Persona 4: Dancing All Night does not express their emotions through dance adequately, they will be defenseless against the Shadows. | |
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Princess Tutu is made of this. Angry wili ghosts trying to take your boyfriend with them into death? Monster crows trying to destroy the city? Helpless baby birds falling out of their nests? Then it's time to dance your goddamn heart out. | |
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White Nights has a serious setting, a USSR prison during the Cold War. A famous Russian ballet dancer who defected is in a terrible situation when he is recaptured by Soviets during a plane crash. The Soviets bring a supposedly loyal tap dancer to help teach this defector the error of his ways while pressuring him. These two dancers express their angst and conflict while dancing. | |
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The documentary Pina is about the late choreographer, Pina Bausch, and her dancers speak about her in awe as an artist the way a sculptor would speak about Michelangelo as they perform the dances she developed. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: The Vanu Vanu Bird People treat dance as a sacred matter of life and death. Their trademark dance in particular, the Sundrop Dance, is treated with with the utmost importance. The Sundrop Dance is a dance performed before battle that is a measure of the dancer's strength and can cow weaker opponents without any violence. To that end, the Vanu Vanu Beast Tribe questline involves getting the two tribes you're working with to do a Sundrop Dance against the more powerful and hostile Vundu tribe. It almost fails until the Warrior of Light steps in and joins in the dance, at which point the dancers develop a Battle Aura and send the Vundu scurrying for their lives. The Allied Beast Tribe quest has one Linu Vali developing a new dance, later named the Moonlift Dance, that gets used against opponents who have been forced into an Unstoppable Rage. It stops their enraged charge in its tracks with an even stronger Battle Aura. | |
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In The Game Plan, Monique takes Joe through a series of ballet exercises to show him that ballet takes as much athletic ability as football. | |
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In Dirty Dancing, much more is riding on Baby learning to dance than Johnny not being able to do a dance exhibition at another resort and thus suffering professional embarrassment. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), with the fate of an entire planet at stake, Quill challenges Ronan the Accuser to a dance-off. It is a distraction. Ronan is extremely confused and temporarily stops his attempt to destroy the planet while he tries to figure out what is going on. This gives Rocket time to fix his BFG and destroy the source of Ronan's power. | |
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On Becca’s romantic path in Melody, the protagonist takes Becca on a date to an Italian restaurant that (a pizza parlor, not a really nice place), he and Becca are having serious rapport-building talk, and he invites Becca to dance to a song that just came on. | |
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ECW had a lot of dancing. The 1998 feud between the team of The Blue Meanie/Super Nova vs. the FBI (Tracy Smothers, Little Guido Maritato and "The Big Don" Tommy Rich) was centered around it. A typical match between the two teams would start like this: Smothers would "dance" poorly and get booed. Meanie would dance and get cheered. Repeat until the FBI attacks. | |
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Before she managed to score victory in WSU, it was suggested Athena hadn't won yet because she wasn't doing spinaroonies like her school's namesake. | |
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Exalted: Some Solar Exalted can dance so well that onlookers are brainwashed. Ligier, the monstrous Green Sun who rules the realm of demons, loves to dance. (The many demons whose houses are crushed by the power of his dancing are less enthused.) One of the best ways to negotiate with him is to offer him a dance; the process will be extremely exhausting and difficult for whoever his partner is, but if Ligier is satisfied, he will grant almost any request they make. There is a species of demon who exist solely to dance when called upon. Presumably their creators were into Conspicuous Consumption. |
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After a terrible Philadelphia Eagles game, a Facebook member snidely commented that "the Eagles played like they were wearing tutus." Incensed at this, a member of the Pennsylvania Ballet offered up a blistering editorial that described how difficult the life of a ballerina was and suggested that the comment was an insult to the dancers rather than the football players, capping it off with this gem: "So no, the Eagles have not played like they were wearing tutus. If they had, Chip Kelly would still be a head coach and we'd all be looking forward to the playoffs." | |
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Cool Cool Town, the setting of Cool Cool Toon, is a place where a person's worth is decided based on how well they can flitz. | |
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In Never Say Never Again, James Bond (Sean Connery) turns Domino (Kim Basinger) away from Maximillian Largo in an elaborate tango. The right to which he won by defeating Largo in a game. | |
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a Deconstruction based on actual exploitative dance contests during the Great Depression. Dancing is serious business, but it's also not fun or quirky; it's brutal, gruelling, emotional and physical labor to the point where death is better. | |
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In Cultist Simulator, Heart-aspect cults are all about dancing. Dancing to the eldritch, unceasing, sanity-destroying rhythm of the Thunderheart, to be precise. Even moreso in the Dancer DLC and its "Change" desire, which sets the player on the path to becoming an immortal Humanoid Abomination via a path of ancient, mystic dances. | |
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In Bronze Skin Inc. the client Dandara starts dancing wildly while listening to the legendary playlist while being tanned by Dante and Julia. It wouldn't be a problem if Dandara wasn't a giantess. | |
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Forgotten Realms has the spelldancers, who use dance-based magic rituals. In the 2nd Edition AD&D version, they are variant wizards unable to use Invocation/Evocation or Necromancy spells, but who are not bound by the Vancian rules that control all other magic in D&D. (This means such characters aren't much use in a dungeon crawl, but otherwise tend to be overpowered). In 3rd Edition, any spellcaster (arcane or divine) can become one, and they only use the dance to amplify the spells they can cast normally. | |
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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses practically revolves around this trope. Genevieve dances across the tiles in the princess' room to unlock the entrance to a secret pavilion. When Rowena has the tiles destroyed to trap Genevieve and her sisters in the pavilion forever, Genevieve and her Love Interest Derek (who she knows because he makes the dancing shoes for her and her sisters) have to dance together to get out. At the end of the movie, Genevieve vanquishes Rowena once and for all by fanning back towards Rowena a spell the latter cast to make one dance for eternity. | |
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Flashdance has Alex (played by Jennifer Beals) pining her own entire future on her audition for the Pittsburgh Conservatory. | |
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Space Channel 5 is all about a reporter fighting aliens with the power of dance. In fact, the entire galaxy is powered by dance. | |
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In Brave10, for the fourth of the Ueda Castle 10 Matches, reputed shrine maidens Isanami and Izumo no Okuni get into a dance-off before their fight as Isanami is absolutely determined to prove the latter is a pretender to the Izumo name. | |
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Parodied by The Onion: "Dancer Risks Everything" | |
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Ghost Trick: When trouble strikes (such as a prison-wide blackout), prison guard Bailey is compelled to do the Panic Dance as passed down in his family for generations. Why? Because someone has to. Inspector Cabanela also has a fondness for dancing everywhere, including up and down stairs. One of the officers is shown in the credits trying to copy that dance, in an attempt to get his power. |
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Billy Elliot qualifies as this at the point where the striking miner father almost becomes a scab for the money to send Billy to ballet school so the kid can have a better chance at life. | |
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In Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero (played by John Travolta) basically pins his entire future on winning a dance contest. Justified as Tony is from a poor, slightly abusive family, is stuck in a dead-end job, and is affected by gang violence. He has nothing else to enjoy and pin his hopes on nothing but dancing. | |
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Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and its American counterpart Elite Beat Agents. In EBA, only dancing can cure a sick athlete and stop an alien invasion. | |
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In Midsommar, the cult/group the Harga choose the May Queen via a dance, which many young women are seen preparing for, as it is a highly honored position. | |
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Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to this trope by having everyone treat a professional dancing competition with the same level of seriousness most people reserve for wars, deaths in the family, and epidemics. | |
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Cinderella: Cinderella's salvation more or less comes from dancing at a ball. | |
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Playing DanceDanceRevolution might make you feel this way, especially with its oh-so-enthusiastic announcer. | |
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Black Swan is a Deconstruction of this, following a ballerina who basically destroys her life, body, and sanity in an obsessive quest to give the perfect performance in Swan Lake. The insanity of treating dancing so seriously is called out, as is the fact that doing so looks rather pathetic when seen from an outside view; at one point, Nina rambles about Swan Lake and ballet to two guys with her typical obsessiveness, and the two can’t even pretend to find it interesting. | |
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Home Improvement. After Tim takes one of the boys to both the ballet and a basketball game, he later admits to Jill that he was genuinely impressed by the skill and athleticism demonstrated by the dancers. | |
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Parodied in a Robot Chicken sketch that was a pastiche of "dance movies". | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has Eldar Harlequins that use acrobatic dances amplified by mystical technology. They use this during wars as well. | |
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Happy Feet pegs the survival of every Emperor Penguin on Earth on the penguin's ability to impress humans with their tap-dancing skills. | |
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Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield." Pat and the other taxi-dancers horse the sleazy pimp-like Guido who runs the dance hall to back off through the power of dance. Or something... | |
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The Doctor Who episode named, appropriately, The Doctor Dances. In this case, the dancing subplot seems to be a veiled reference to sexuality. | |
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At the unauthorized ROH A Night Of Hoopla, Davey Richards expressed his frustration with a "pants off dance off" being held between the "Hoopla Hotties" Scarlett Bordeaux, Seleziya Sparx and Val Malone, talking about the promotion's efforts to present a quality wrestling product, before concluding the only proper way to defend the honor of all the great wrestlers that came before him was to enter the contest himself and out dance the House Of Truth's minions while leaving his pants on! | |
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Dance Central 3's plot is to save the world through dancing. There's even DCI, a CIA-esque agency to protect the world from dance crimes. | |
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Flight of the Conchords parodies Footloose with "Bret's Angry Dance." When the band breaks up, the only way to vent his frustrations is by dancing masculinely in a warehouse. Unlike Bacon, Bret McKenzie is a trained dancer, so he did the heavy lifting and heavier dancing himself. | |
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In Brain Dead 13, Lance has to do this to "stay alive" while dodging a hail of bullets that Trigger-Happy Fritz shoots at both our hero and Neurosis. And it all takes place entirely in the darkness, where the only tiny pillars of light are used as a disco dance floor. | |
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Abdul's salvation in The Kid. His interest in dance seems to be the only thing keeping him from spiraling into violence, mental illness, and addiction. | |
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Both seasons of Fi feature significant subplots related to Duru's dancing career and Deniz's work as a composer, director, and teacher. Season one focuses on Duru's ambitions as a lead performer and Deniz's struggle to open a performing arts center for his students. The second season brings Duru and Deniz together again for the production of Afife, a new musical. |
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South Park parodied this in "You got F'd in the A!". The adults act like "getting served" by a dance crew like is a horribly traumatic event or a serious injury while the boys are just confused as to what everyone's talking about. | |
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The basic premise of A Chorus Line is dancers auditioning to be in the chorus of a new Broadway musical, so dancing is key to the livelihoods of all the characters. As we later find out dance was also the way many of the characters were able to cope with or leave their dysfunctional home lives. | |
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In Bunheads dance, particularly ballet, is treated extremely seriously. Any of the main teenage girls possibly developing interests or friends outside of ballet is always treated as a major shock and betrayal. One of Michelle's major regrets is not having the discipline to continue her studies at American Ballet Theatre as a teenager. | |
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Seen in Showgirls, as much of the film revolves around dancing (albeit much of it is related to or akin to stripping or prostitution due to all the nudity and sexuality in it). Specifically, Nomi and James take it very seriously, to the point that it's their primary means of supporting themselves. | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Party Animal", Emperor Awesome tries to literally party a planet to pieces, but gives up on his scheme when he's bested in a dance-off by Wander. | |
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In Octopath Traveler, Primrose's attack spells are named things like "Moonlight Waltz" or "Night Ode". Apparently in Orsterra you can summon darkness to kill your enemies just by dancing real good. | |
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The movie Breakin featured the classic "pinning of all hopes and dreams on a dance routine," but its strangely-titled sequel Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo ratcheted up the crazy by not only using breakdancing as a means to save the perpetually-imperiled youth center, but also as a form of combat. No, not like a Dance Battler, but rather two teams of enemies facing off, breakdancing, and then deciding — as a group — who won the battle. What, do you think we're kidding? | |
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Cited in the Cold Case episode "Shuffle, Ball Change'', about the murder of a young man who aspired to be a dancer. When Vera makes disparaging remarks about the profession to one of the suspects (the kid's rival), the guy hits back with a blistering description of how difficult dance is and the commitment it requires. Later, when they are interviewing another suspect (the kid's teacher), he gives a similar speech and a flashback shows that he gave yet another similar speech to the kid himself. | |
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