Dance (おどる or ダンス or 踊る, Odoru?) is a recurring ability in the Final Fantasy series, available usually to the Dancer class. Dances are fairly versatile, and can have positive or negative status effects. There is a recurring Dance attack, Sword Dance, that acts as a powerful physical attack.

Appearances

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

Dance is Brina's command ability. Dance has a Charge Time of 3. It casts a random White Magic spell on the entire party for no MP cost. Calca has a similar ability called Jive, which casts random enemy abilities on the enemy party.

Final Fantasy V

!Dance is the level 2 ability for the Dancer job. When used, one of four random abilities triggers with a 25% chance for each. Equipping the Rainbow Dress, Red Slippers, or Lamia's Tiara causes the character to use Sword Dance instead of Tempting Tango, effectively increasing Sword Dance's chances of appearing to 50%.

Much like other physical commands, !Dance prevents other added commands from activating, e.g. !Flee via the Chicken Knife.

!Dance can also be used as a damage-replacing added command by attacking with the Dancing Dagger (50% probability).

Final Fantasy VI

Dance is Mog's main command ability. When Mog ends a battle on a new terrain, he learns the Dance associated with that terrain. When Mog uses a Dance, he has a 50% chance to stumble and lose his turn if the Dance is of a different terrain than the current terrain. Upon Mog Dancing successfully, the battle terrain shifts to the native terrain of that Dance and Mog enters a "Berserker" state, automatically using one of four random attacks each turn, each Dance having a different set of attacks and chance of using them.

The hidden character Gogo may also use the Dance command, but is not capable of learning new Dances, and is only able to use Dances that Mog has learned. Whenever Mog learns a new Dance, Gogo will become able to use that Dance as well.

Final Fantasy X-2

Dance is an ability used by the Songstress dressphere. It grants status buffs to the party and inflicts negative statuses on enemies as long as the Songstress continues dancing.

Final Fantasy XI

Dance abilities make up the moveset of the Dancer class.

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

Penelo's skillset and Quickening are Dances that buff allies and debuff the enemies.

Song	Description
Mystic Dance	Casts Faith on nearby allies.
War Dance	Casts Bravery on nearby allies.
Hypnotic Dance	Inflicts Disable on nearby enemies.
Dance of Rapture	Fully restores HP of all allies and cures status ailments.

Final Fantasy Tactics

Dance is the command ability used by the Dancer class. It is exclusive to female party members and the dances concentrate on debilitating enemy units.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift

Dance is the command ability used by the Dancer class.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

Dance is an ability used by the Dancer job class. Their default command, Dance, lets the party recover AP more quickly than usual and lasts three turns. All of the Dancers consecutive abilities also concentrate on restoring allies' AP.

Final Fantasy Dimensions

The Dancer class can use various Dance attacks.

Pictlogica Final Fantasy

Dance is the job skill for the Dancer Memoria. When the user attacks, it has a 75% chance of using one of the following abilities.

Name	Effect	Notes
Sword Dance	Deals physical damage equal to twice normal strength.	-
Drain Samba	Absorb 5% of total damage dealt to one enemy to heal user.	Decimal points truncated.
Weak Polka	Reduces Attack of one enemy by 5%.	Ineffective against magic. Duration: 1 turn.

Dance is also the Premium Skill for Brina. It randomly uses Cure Dance, Calca and Brina, Shell Dance, and Esuna Dance. It has a high charge speed and is usable during Force Memento.

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade

Ability Cards

Legend Cards

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

One of Mog's cards knows Dance. The player must Dull Mog, pay a Wind CP and discard a Mog card, and Dance lets the player choose a Forward with a cost equal to the number of moogles they control, and destroy it.

One of Bartz's cards can use Tempting Tango for the discard of a Bartz card and one each Wind and Light CP. Tempting Tango chooses one Forward the opponent controls and deals damage to all other Forwards the opponent controls equal to its power.

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