Turn one photo of your cat, dog or yourself into an AI belly dance video that copies a built-in routine's hip sways and arm waves move for move, right in the room from your photo.
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One cat, dog or person per photo, whole body or at least to the knees, facing the camera with paws or arms in view. Pets can stand or sit.
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No prompt needed. Only upload photos of yourself or people who agreed to be featured; celebrity photos and film stills aren't allowed.
The AI belly dancing cat trend is short vertical videos of a cat up on its hind legs doing a belly dance: hips swaying, front paws held out, usually in a coin belt and long skirt on a candlelit or stage set. Most are AI-made, either drawn whole by a video model or made by moving one pet photo with a real belly dance clip, which is how this page works.
It works because the dancer is the last one you'd expect: the cat that ignores everyone, or the big serious dog, suddenly upright and shimmying. Captions such as “belly full of milk but she still got the moves” and “POV: You catch your British cat belly dancing for the first time” carry it from there.
Real cats came first, swaying on two legs to drum music, and a search for belly dancing cat still mixes in GIFs, memes and the Belly Dancer Cat from the game The Battle Cats. The AI version turned it into a template: any pet photo, the same dance.
@chesteraddam posts a real cat belly dancing on TikTok, about 3 million views.
@kitten__paradise posts “Kitten Belly Dances While Puppy Drops the Beat!”, a white AI kitten in a coin belt beside a drumming puppy, made with Hailuo: about 26.3 million views and 329,000 shares on TikTok.
Vidu publishes a Pet Belly Dance template: one pet photo in, a belly dance video out.
@kittiesssworld posts a ginger cat belly dancing in a red skirt by candlelight, about 769,000 views.
A January post in @funworldai's numbered Cat Belly Dance series reaches about 708,000 views; the series runs past #41.
Sources: view and share counts as shown on TikTok on November 6, 2026; the template date from Vidu's Pet Belly Dance page.
Both routines take the same single photo, and either one works with a cat, a dog or a person. The dancer and the room come from your photo; the moves, the camera and the sound come from the routine. Photo-to-video templates guess the dance from a prompt and change it each run; here every run follows the same routine.
Cat routine · 10s
Danced by a cat on its hind legs. The front paws stay out at chest height from start to finish while the hips sway, push to one side and swing wider and wider. Nothing goes above the head, so it is the routine to pick for a cat, dog or rabbit; on a person it reads as a light, playful sway.
Use the cat routine
Dancer routine · 12s
Danced by a woman against a plain wall. Her forearms cross in front of her chin and unfold, both hands go up into her hair, the hips circle and sway for most of the clip, and it ends with a hair flip and arms thrown wide. It is made for a person's arms; a pet can take it too, but the hands-in-hair moves suit people best.
Use the dancer routineTo make your cat dance with AI, pick a routine and add one photo: whoever is in it becomes the dancer.
Photo 1Cat, dog or you
Plays the one dancer in the routine you picked, from the first sway to the last.
Works well
A cat sitting upright, whole body, facing you
A dog sitting tall with its front legs in view
You standing, head to toeAvoid
A pet curled up or lying down
Only the pet's face
Two pets in one photo
A close selfie with no bodyAdd the photo
Choose the cat or dancer routine, then upload one photo of your cat, dog or yourself.
Click Generate
The button shows the exact credit price before the run starts.
Post it
Download the MP4 and post it to TikTok, Reels or Shorts with your own POV caption.
Leave some floor and space around your pet in the photo: the wide hip swings need room.
The cat routine is one 10-second take from a fixed front camera, with no cuts. These are its five moves, in the order your photo dances them.
10:00–0:01Up on its hind legs, the cat lifts its chin toward the ceiling and holds both front paws out at chest height, swaying gently.
20:01–0:02Eyes back on the camera, it pushes its hips to one side and the skirt kicks out after them.
30:02–0:04Small steps in place while the hips swing left and right, so the skirt flares wide around its feet.
40:04–0:07Facing the camera with the paws still out, it keeps a quick, small sway; the coins on the belt swing and the tail flicks out to one side.
50:07–0:10The swings get bigger, the skirt sweeps in wide arcs and the tail flicks to the other side; it finishes still facing the camera, paws out.
One animal or one person per video. Here is who suits each routine, with a line to post it with.
Caption: POV: you catch your British cat belly dancing for the first time
Round, calm cats sell the routine: more belly to sway, and a deadpan face the whole way through.
Caption: He told us he doesn't dance.
Big dogs stand tall in the cat routine, so the paws-out pose reads at a glance on a phone screen.
Caption: Bunny found the belly dance playlist
Rabbits already sit up on their hind legs, which is where the cat routine starts.
Caption: Belly dance class? I skipped straight to the video.
The dancer routine's arm waves, hip circles and closing hair flip land on you, no lessons needed.
Motion Control reads only the photo and the routine, so this page takes no prompt. To run the same dance yourself in a reference-to-video tool such as Kling or Seedance, the words have to say which file gives the moves and which gives the dancer: attach the routine as @Video1 and your photo as @Image1, then copy the prompt for that routine.
Reference clip
Prompt length 1006
Use @Video1 as the motion reference and @Image1 as the dancer. Animate the cat, dog or person in @Image1 performing the belly dance from @Video1. Take only the moves, framing and rhythm from @Video1, not its ginger cat, red skirt, coin belt, candles or curtains. Keep the subject of @Image1 exactly as photographed: face, fur or hair colour, markings, body shape and the room around them. Follow @Video1 in order: stand upright with the chin raised and both front paws or hands held out at chest height; look back at the camera and push the hips to one side; take small steps in place while the hips swing left and right; face the camera with a quick, small sway; finish with wide hip swings, still facing the camera with the paws out. Keep the paws or hands at chest height the whole time and the whole body in frame from ears to feet. Keep the fixed front camera, the timing and the original music of @Video1. Do not add a costume, veil, stage or second dancer, and keep the face steady and recognisable.Follow @Video1 move by move
Listing them as they happen in @Video1 stops the tool from shuffling the hip push and the sways.
Say what not to borrow
“Only the moves, framing and rhythm” keeps the clip's dancer, outfit and set out of your video.
Ask for the whole body
A belly dance lives in the hips and feet; ears-to-feet or head-to-feet framing stops a crop to the chest.
Asking for a costume and a palace
New outfits and scenery pull the tool away from the reference moves and away from your photo's look.
Describing the cat in the clip
“A ginger cat in a red skirt” tells the tool to draw that cat instead of yours.
Leaving out the camera
Without “fixed front camera”, a tool may add a zoom or an orbit the routine never had.
Borrows your room, keeps their cat
Make the ginger cat from @Video1 belly dance in the room from @Image1.
Keeps your cat, borrows the dance
Animate the cat in @Image1 performing the belly dance from @Video1. Take only the moves, framing and rhythm from @Video1, not its ginger cat or costume.
The first prompt asks for the clip's ginger cat, so only your background survives. The second names @Image1 as the dancer and takes nothing from @Video1 but the moves.
Every template works the same way: add your photos, press Generate and get a shareable video without writing a prompt.
View all effectsFAQ
Most of the costumed ones are not. Real cats do sway on their hind legs to music, but a cat in a coin belt dancing a whole routine on a stage was made with AI.
No, each video costs credits. The price depends on the routine and the resolution, and the Generate button shows the exact amount before you start. New accounts get 10 credits when they sign up.
No. Your cat dances in its own fur, in the room from your photo; the template copies the moves and the sound, not the clip's skirt, coin belt or stage.
Yes. Whatever is in the photo is what dances, so a hip scarf or a long skirt in your photo is how you get the belly dance look. Loose veils and long fringe are the hardest parts to move cleanly.
Yes. Both routines take any one animal: dogs, rabbits and other pets work the same way as cats, one per photo.
Usually: the fur colour, markings and face come from your photo. Fast hip swings can smear fine markings or bend the tail for a few frames, and a pet photographed lying down may get odd legs once it stands. A new run comes out differently, and the photo checklist above shows the shots that hold up best.
No. There is no prompt box here: pick a routine and upload a photo. To run the idea in another tool, copy one of the two prompts in the prompt section above.
Yes, in Motion Control: upload your own dance video with the same photo and it follows that routine instead. This page keeps its two routines built in.
Yes. When it finishes, download the MP4 from the result. The video is private to your account, so nobody sees it until you post it.
The download is an MP4 video with sound, not a GIF. Any phone or web converter turns the MP4 into a GIF if you need one.
Not quite. Searches for AI Arabic dance often turn up AI-made songs and music videos. This page makes no music: it moves your photo with one of two belly dance routines and keeps the routine's own sound.
Cat, dog or you
Upload one photo of your cat, dog or yourself, pick a routine and get the belly dance back as a vertical video.