Top 50 Greatest Movie Dance Scenes of All Time

[@trinaq]

It's true dedication that Gene Kelly performed that famous rain dance when he was sick with a temperature. More proof that he was one of the best dancers of his generation.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

Wow, talk about commitment!

[@cajayson8301]

I'm shocked that was not number one. Still a great list.

[@KrittersCorner56]

How is it not # 1?

[@cajayson8301]

@@KrittersCorner56 I'm surprised at the top choice. Not that it's a bad dance number...just surprised (I guess because it's not from a noteworthy film, such as West Side Story or Grease), especially as MsMojo seems to love Singin in the Rain in her other lists.

[@IOAFan]

Finally, Eleanor Powell gets the credit she deserves in one of your dance lists. She was the best!

[@bricktam]

Knowing that the Nicholas brothers were self-taught dancers made their number even better.

[@CVET1111]

Yes,but making conversation,love mojo.

[@cpma5094]

Thank you for including some of the less known, deserving dance scenes.

[@jeromebrown857]

Thanks for including Kid n Play in the top 50. Part of my childhood (and several of my friends!)

[@jp3813]

Airplane, Beetlejuice, Coming to America, Beauty and the Beast, Scent of a Woman, The Mask, The Mask of Zorro.

[@chelseacanales8763]

Jumping Jive is truly a great dance scene along with Prove Me Wrong in White Lights and You Can’t Stop the Beat in Hairspray

[@joycediggs4617]

The stairwork of the Nicholas Brothers was one of the most iconic dance scenes of all time! 😊😊😊

[@puguita]

Just recently started watching Gene Kelly’s movies, thanks to another list in this channel, and I am so grateful. Big fan now! Great list, can’t disagree with any of them!

[@cijmo]

Don't miss Summer Stock where he takes on another great inanimate dance partner!

[@puguita]

@@cijmo Thank you so much! I saw it during the weekend and it was a fantastic!!! The dancing with the paper was sooo cool!

[@Zyryne1]

Danny Kaye was so handsome. 😊❤

[@marshaprice8226]

So glad to see Cyd Charisse! She was so tall, elegant and lovely!

[@slystone4892]

Just for one moment I thought number one wouldn’t be included which would have been a crime. What an amazing scene, it’s just unbelievable.

[@CVET1111]

Love,mojo,the comments and quick count down. Love this channel.

[@rhondachapman3688]

Great video. Very glad Strictly Ballroom made it on your list 🇦🇺💜💜

[@cajayson8301]

I LOVE that you put What a Feeling from Flashdance at #16! That was the number one song on Billboard the day I was born (hence the "83" in my user name)

[@cookieguygaming]

I think the dance scenes from Last Night In Soho are incredibly underrated. The editing and the practical effects letting characters weave in and out of their respective time periods is one of the most striking visuals I've ever seen. If there's a top 100 list made, it at least has to crack that.

[@trippyboi91]

That House Party scene is so beautiful to me…. It’s an era that I wanted to be apart of SO BAD.

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

Great dance scenes!

[@thedriveinmoviehistory5327]

Thank you, nice list

[@Lilmovieman27]

Not having anything from swing time is no bueno…even so, you can’t argue number one

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Definitely "Step in time" from Mary Poppins. Have a happy saturday night, Emely, take care and God bless you, greetings from Colombia to you as well.

[@cajayson8301]

I love Mary Poppins! What's great with MP Is, while it may come off as a simplified sugary children's musical, it's actually rather deep

[@samuelcollantes1175]

@@cajayson8301 You're right!

[@zenfrodo]

8:27 for anyone interested: the real-life band Gaelic Storm are in this scene and playing their hearts out. They are just as awesome IRL and in their albums as Titanic suggests. Whenever they played at the Dublin Irish Festival (er, Dublin OH), they always got most of the crowd to their feet.

[@robertfallin2359]

I have been watching movies for 71 years (when I saw the rerelease of WAR OF THE WORLDS with Gene Barry, I realized I must have been taken to the movies in 1953 to see it. Several brilliant ensemble sequences are missing, including the PRELUDE in WEST SIDE STORY, The COTILLIAN SCENE FROM MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, the amazing scene with Van Johnson and the citizens of BRIGADOON, The CIRCUS PERFORMANCE scene FROM BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO (the last film on which the legendary Busby Berkely worked), the GARDEN SCENE with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth from YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER, the scene in which Fred Astaire dances with Jane Powell in ROYAL WEDDING, THE "love look away" ballet from FLOWER DRUM SONG, the "A Couple of Swells" scene with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland from EASTER PARADE, The "trolly scene" with Judy Garland from MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS and, more recently, the incredibly choreographed STEP UP: REVOLUTION, without which LA LA LAND would NEVER have been made. Let's face it, Michael Jackson videos and live performances brought back the movie musical. I seriously doubt Chicago would have been made without the influence of Michael Jackson. I even enjoyed the Patrick Swayze/Lisa Niemi-produced ONE LAST DANCE, the Chinese import HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and the magical SUCKER PUNCH. Just like the Sergio Leone DOLLARS TRILOGY, traditional Hollywood was never the same after Leone showed HE knew more about the history of the 19th century West and our War Between The States than ANY Hollywood filmmaker, including John Ford.

[@11cabadger]

Not going to argue, you put together a great list. (That LaLa Land opener really does make you homesick for the LA in your heart and besides Rita's purple dress, don't forget George Chakiris danced as Riff (London stage) and Bernardo (Best Supporting Actor, movie). One teensy comment tho', it would have been nice to show Fred Astaire dancing with -- mop, hat rack, golf club, rain coat, etc. -- in response to the crack, "Who do you think you are, Fred Astaire?!" After years of being a gentleman, didn't Fred say he had the most fun dancing with Rita Hayworth? A great dancer in her own right.

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, MsMojo..!! Goldwyn Follies (1938) also had good dance scenes. One of them was Vera Zorina in Balanchine's (Undine) Water Nymph Ballet. The actress was born in Germany, so in 1940, Fantasia did a parody of the first scene by using Hyacinth.

[@robb_johnson]

Surprised a dance number from “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” didn’t make the list

[@corvus1374]

Don't forget that Ryan Gosling was a Mouseketeer, and did a lot of dancing when he was a kid.

[@TheMangoMan99]

This is the greatest damn video ever. Can't stop watching it. I never knew she could move like that. Now I know why so many men had crushes on her.

[@whittni1]

agree with the list with one exception, the twist and shout scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it should be somewhere on the list

[@Heavilybrokn]

I strongly recommend those who made this list to watch the 1985 movie “Fast Forward”!!!

[@pwarriorninja]

Loved the list, especially #1!! But, I would have added "Got a lot of Livin to Do" from "Bye Bye Birdie"!

[@janedevine1451]

I still cannot comprehend why all the wonderful and intriguing dances in Oliver ! do not get mentioned ! 😰 From Ompahpah and Consider yourself and I'd do anything to food glorious food, almost every ensemble song has amazing chorography as well !

[@blackoutcoasters]

I mean Matilda’s Revolting Children is ICONIC!

[@Phelie315]

A lot of these I expected, some I had never heard of, so nice to discover these :) I'm missing both the tango scene from Moulin Rouge and the 96000 scene from in the heights though. They are some of my personal favourites :)

[@LaLayla99]

No "Get Happy" by Judy Garland in Summer Stock?

[@ansiaaa]

the dance off in Earth Girls are Easy should have made the list. it's obv not choreographed as a Gene Kelly's movie, but it was really well made and showed the dance moves of that era

[@laurellane1721]

No Cagney as Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy?

[@julianaylor4351]

Gotta dance...🎶❤️ ( Lyrics from Broadway Melody from Singing In The Rain ).

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

Well, actions DO speak louder than words, and dancing involves a lot of action!

[@waheedabdullah6371]

Nothing on: We're All in This Together dance Dr. Robotnik's dance Joker stair dance

[@farlleyrodrigues9430]

How could you forget Rita Hayworth?

[@barbararoden2757]

I get the love for 'Step in Time' from 'Mary Poppins', which regularly turns up on these lists, but another Dick Van Dyke number that is at least its equal is 'Me Ol' Bamboo' from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.

[@samanthaweis3228]

How do you make a list of iconic dance numbers in film and NOT have Donald O Connor there? Make em Laugh? You Can Bounce Right Back?

[@mariahyldahl6662]

I know!!!!!

[@tammylynnbeatricedoyle4500]

Cell Block Tango ❤ and all things Gene Kelly 🎉

[@colleenross8752]

You pop that gum one more time....!

[@tammylynnbeatricedoyle4500]

@colleenross8752 then he ran into my knife 🔪 he ran into my knife 10x

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

The Company had a lot of awesome dancing in it. :) as does Malcolms Dsnce in A Clockwork Orange. 😊😊😊😊

[@hakase8381]

It's sad to see not a single the greatest showman songs. I mean, Come Alive? The Other Side? From Now On?

[@ajpat9620]

There's nothing good nor special of all the songs from The Greatest Showman, as its songs and the movie overall, are absolute trash. A pure absolute woke trash, nothing more. Furthermore, The Greatest Showman is a disgrace and a travesty to all musical genre (alongside 2019's Cats), and has no business of being a part of the list of best musical films, ever.

[@hakase8381]

@@ajpat9620 Damn, my whole life was lie. I was so young when i watched it and i actually enjoyed it. Never to realize it was THAT BAD. I liked the songs, i thought the choreo was good especially From Now On i liked it. Now that i know what it actually is, it seems like my life was ruined.

[@ajpat9620]

@@hakase8381 Come on. That movie was that bad. It was downright awful. Both The Greatest Showman and 2019's Cats nearly ruined the reputation of musical film genre, and that's a fact there.

[@hakase8381]

@@ajpat9620 yeah, now that i realized that my whole perception of this movie has changed. Knowing that i have watched an actual good musical film like Tick.. Tick.. Boom. Compared to that, the greatest showman was nothing.

[@Phelie315]

​@@ajpat9620I didn't like the greatest showman either, but it didn't ruin the reputation of the musical genre, it was in fact quite successful and people seemed to generally enjoy it, unlike Cats. Also I don't know how it was woke? If anything it was the opposite.

[@user-PuppyDan]

In one of the interviews about Titanic Kate Winslet let on that Leo was nervous about the dance scene asa he'd never done an irsh jig. Kate said it's ok I'll show you as she has irish family and the line he used about not knowing the steps was correct.

[@kindface]

For grace, I'd have to take the tap dance routine with Astaire in white coattails with his lady partner (can't remember the partner's or the movie's name). Between Astaire and Kelly, I will always pick Astaire.

[@isabelled.7732]

Where are Shirley Temple and Bojangles?

[@LadyMul]

I was about to pen a complaint letter thinking they’d forgotten about the Nicolas brother 😅🙏🏾

[@cathyriedl5651]

Wow, in both your top 30 and top 50 you didn't include a fabulous dance scene by a song actually called, "Shall we Dance." The King and I. What on earth?!

[@ILJ68]

Not even a mention for Twyla Tharp’s electrifying Aquarius from Hair? Heck, she even had the actual horses dancing. For shame MzMojo. For shame.

[@deborahhopper4033]

Center Stage. Show Girls was an awful movie but the choreography was good. And Stayin Alive.

[@papadwarf3953]

you can't not include the tango scene from Scent of a Woman and the Mia and Vincent dance from pulp fiction only honorable mention. Actually invalidates the list.

[@slystone4892]

Why not 100 Top?

[@sarahlynne377]

You guys missed some biggies….any dance from best little whorehouse in Texas, the “we got Annie” and hard knock life dance from Annie, the closing dance from girls just want to have fun…the African ant eater ritual from can’t buy me love…

[@henrikechers9995]

Gene Kelly was sick with the flue, when he did Singing in the rain number - in the rain. Must really have mede everything horrible