Mi Chico Dance AI: Dance All Night With Your Own Crew

The Mi Chico dance is the routine that came with DJ Goja’s “Mi Chico”: hands up by the head, arm rolls, a brush down the chest, hip sways, a point, an overhead clap, two boxing punches and the closing finger guns. One person dances it, two trade the front spot, or a crew does it in a line.

The song is “Mi Chico”, by the Romanian producer DJ Goja — he told Kiss FM he wrote it wanting Afrobeats drums under the repetition of a children’s song, and picked a Spanish title because the language sounds like summer. It came out on 27 March 2026 through Gamma. Jason Derulo and the Brazilian singer Melody released their version on 26 June 2026, and the dance teaser before it had already been used in more than 250,000 videos. K-pop did a lot of that: TWICE and Hearts2Hearts pushed the song, ITZY’s Yeji posted the dance on 13 June for 2.1M plays, SHINee’s Minho did it in September for 1.2M.

What kept it alive after the song stopped being new was the stage. Derulo has been pulling people out of the audience to dance it with him, and those clips are the ones non-dancers actually watched: a fan in a leotard under red light at San Hejmo (1.4M plays), a woman in white jeans on a concert stage that TikTok titled “who is this ABSOLUTE DIVA” (745K), a dance teacher in Australia whose version the news picked up (2.4M). That is why “mi chico dance on stage” and “mi chico dance tutorial” sit next to each other in the autocomplete: half the people watching want to learn it in case they get pulled up.

The AI half started quietly. On 2 May @highonbubbles posted an AI pink bunny in rhinestone sunglasses doing the routine in a white studio — the first animal to dance it, weeks before Derulo’s own version came out. On 30 September @jyt, an AI boy band, posted five friends in a huddle over a phone and then dancing the routine on a plaza at dusk; it took 3.3M plays and 487.8K likes, and it is the clip every AI tool now uses as its reference. The same day @humantix answered with five AI kittens (1.3M plays, 147.4K likes), then pups on Venice Beach, then crocodiles. From 22 October the tools sell it as a template: five photos for a crew, one to three for a duo or a pet.

Which is the honest way to say what this page is. The trend’s own versions are already generated, and the templates fix you to one crew on one rooftop. Here you pick which of the sixteen clips you want to be in — Derulo’s supermarket teaser, the hall of fans he teaches it to, Jay Park’s stage, the AI crew’s plaza, a festival stage under red light, a practice room, a living room — and an image-to-video model redraws you (or your friend, or your dog) doing that clip’s routine in that clip’s spot, with the crew and the track still where they were.

One thing to keep straight while searching: “Mi Chico” is Spanish for “my boy”, but the dance is not a Latin dance and not the Mexican folk dancing the question “what is the famous Mexican dance called” is about. And “JYT” in the suggestions is not a step — it is the AI boy band whose clip everyone is copying.