Guild Wars 2

Hey;

This one’s got stuck in my noggin recently, with even an incomplete entry in the Wiki regarding the origin of this dance. I’ve been to various other sites and forums over the past couple of days, all claiming that their example is the original dance that inspired the Sylvari dance, but all of which have been wrong.

I remember seeing the original dance shortly after release when someone linked to it. It was two non-Asian kids on a dark stage doing the exact dance, but for the life of me, I can’t find the video again.
Does anyone here have a link, or would even a dev involved in the implementation of the dance animations care to contribute?
If nothing else, it would be nice to have a link to the original on the Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangra_
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qp0RG6ecDs

just a bit of google on the term Bhangra (wich is the name of the dance).

Where e.g. the shuffle, carlton or the Haka are very clear dance with very clear moves, the Bhangra and also the robot (asuran dance) are more a wider style where the origin of the ingame dance is more based on more then just a one vid or dance with a fixed number of dance steps.

You got that first link from the GW2 wiki, which is what I meant by incomplete. Your second link is also completely wrong, and one of the many I’ve watched trying to find the one that I specified quite clearly in my post. I’m getting tired of people reading post titles and not actual posts.

To further clarify, the dance I refer to didn’t simply “influence” the Sylvari dance; it WAS the Syvlari dance, exactly.

May be this one from The Big Bang Theory?, from 0:54 onwards.

Nope, that’s not it either, although I can see where you’re coming from. The one I’m talking about was an amateur video and the moves were exactly the same as the Sylvari dance. I’m positive that the developers must have used it as a reference, it’s that similar.

Every time I see my sylvari dance I always think of some Japanese commercial all girl group