Dancing

Dancing is an action that characters can do in the game. The dance menu can be brought up by pressing F on a keyboard, or otherwise pressing the directional pad down on a controller while the phone is not open. In the menu, you can select a particular dance, and your current character will dance. If you open the dance menu but then cancel out of it, the character will still do their own idle dance until the player moves them again.
The player can dance at a cypher spot to start a cypher, thus allowing them to switch to other characters. The player can also dance in front of a taxi sign in order to call Benni to pick them up and take them to another taxi stop in New Amsterdam. Note that he will only take the player to stops where they have already interacted with the sign beforehand, thus adding it to the map.
Some side missions to unlock additional character also require dancing with certain dances, specifically for Shine, Coil, and the Flesh Prince.
Toprock is unlocked by default, while the rest are unlocked as you progress through the game. Each of the other unlockable dances are associated with the rival crews that you get them from, after beating them in a crew battle:
* Popping, unlocked after beating the Franks
* Housedance, unlocked after beating Eclipse
* Breaking, unlocked after beating DOT EXE
* Hip-hop, unlocked after beating Devil Theory
* Locking, unlocked after beating FUTURISM
There are other dances seen throughout the game which cannot be selected from the dance menu. Most of these can only be seen at cypher spots.
==Gallery==
File:BRCToprock.gif|Toprock
File:FranksPopping.gif|Popping
File:EclipseHousedance.gif|Housedance
File:DotExeBreaking.gif|Breaking
File:DevilTheoryHipHop.gif|Hip-hop
File:FuturismLocking.gif|Locking
==Trivia==
* Each of the dances were motion captured from different people. The director of the game itself, Dion Koster, did the capture for Toprock and Popping. Meanwhile for the other selectable dances, Housedance was performed by Kim Tawjoeram, Breaking was performed by Mark Hendriks, and both Hip-hop and Locking were performed by Gino Jagessar.
* Additional people are listed in the credits for dancing motion capture, presumably for some of the non-selectable dances seen in the game. The other people credited are Koen Roetman, Lars Bogaers (Snars), Oliver Wagstaff, and Sjoerd Poldermans.
Category:Game Mechanics