Nicole Kidman Dance: Do the ADÉLA Routine From a Photo
The Nicole Kidman dance is a week of tutorials: the crossed stance, the hands through the hair, the slow arm roll, the hip pop on “I feel like Nicole”. You do not have to learn it. Pick one of the clips below, add a photo, and the AI puts you in that routine — solo, as a duo, or as a trio — with ADÉLA’s sound still on it.
- Fifteen clips to remix
- One photo per dancer
- Solo, duo or trio
- ADÉLA’s original sound
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TL;DR
At its peak · as ofThe Nicole Kidman dance is the fifteen-second routine to ADÉLA’s “Nicole Kidman”: a crossed stance, both hands through the hair, a slow arm roll and a hip pop on the line “baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole”. Choreographer Kyler Irby posted it on 10 September 2026 and it became a solo, duo and trio format — 194,000 posts use the sound — before going mainstream when ADÉLA performed it on The Tonight Show in October. It is at its peak: the biggest clips are weeks old, but new takes still land half a million plays a week later.
- Original post
- Choreographer Kyler Irby’s own post of the routine, 10 September 2026 — the version every cover since credits with “dc: @Kyler F****** Irby” · @ky.manson
- Sound
- Nicole Kidman — ADÉLA — open it in TikTok and tap “Use this sound”.
- Also called
- adela nicole kidman, nicole kidman adela, nicole kidman dance trend, nicole kidman dance challenge, nicole kidman dance tutorial, nicole kidman dance original, nicole kidman dance duo, i feel like nicole, feellikenicole, nicole kidman water dance, #nicolekidmandance, #nicolekidmanchallenge, #adelaprima
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Nicole Kidman Dance Clips to Remix
Fifteen posts of the Nicole Kidman dance plus one clean AI demo, most watched first: the duo in the plaza, the choreographer’s own trio, triplets in a living room, a trio in the street, a solo in a shirt and tie, the water-bottle version, two cats. Pick the one with your number of people and the room you want, and it becomes the reference for your own video, with its own sound.
The plaza duo everyone copied
@rainysannie on TikTokThe choreographer’s own trio
@ky.manson on TikTokFeel like Nicole, times three
@icm_triplets on TikTokEvery single night, in the street
@michaelwroxs on TikTokThree in plaid, under the street lamps
@binnieppang on TikTokThe water-bottle version
@trxineex on TikTokTwo sisters, one routine
@tgeyl123 on TikTokSolo, in the widest jeans he owns
@thansskon_ on TikTokThe whole group, on a night out
@patriciamulyana on TikTokI feel like Nicole, in a bedroom
@layy.exe on TikTokThe whole group does it at the party
@flo.jngg on TikTokWarming up for the VMAs, in suits
@tylerjackson.d on TikTokMe at 5:01 pm on a Friday
@aaron_dodge on TikTokTwo cats do the Nicole Kidman dance
@uni.ebi.ragdolls on TikTokThe clean AI take
View on TikTokA red studio in Paris
@ellsandbells1 on TikTokWhat Is the Nicole Kidman Dance?
The Nicole Kidman dance is the fifteen-second routine to ADÉLA’s single “Nicole Kidman”: a crossed-leg stance, both hands drawn through the hair, a slow arm roll out to the sides, and a hip pop landed on the line “baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole”. Pairs and trios do it in sync, in one take.
“I feel like Nicole” is the line that goes in the caption, and it is why the whole thing reads as a joke about behaving like a diva for fifteen seconds. The song is the fourth single from ADÉLA’s album PRIMA, out at the start of September 2026, and the routine is built for the chorus: four moves anyone can copy, on beats you can hear.
Choreographer Kyler Irby (@ky.manson) posted the routine on 10 September 2026, three dancers in a driveway, and nearly every cover since credits him — “dc: @Kyler F****** Irby” is the most repeated line under these videos after the lyrics. Not everyone uses his steps: dancers also post their own choreography to the same song, and @dancing.with.donovan’s “how i would choreograph nicole kidman” has 3.46M plays of its own. What all the versions share is the staging: two or three people standing side by side in one continuous take, full body in frame, dancing in sync rather than in sequence. That is why the format travels: it needs no cut, no edit and no second camera, only people willing to look serious.
The range of it is the fun part. @rainysannie’s duo in a lit plaza is the most watched version at 10.7M plays; @icm_triplets do it as three sisters; @tylerjackson.d and two friends do it in suits in a hotel lobby as a warm-up for a VMA performance; @trxineex does it holding two open water bottles; @aaron_dodge does it alone on an empty street captioned “Me at 5:01 pm on a Friday”; and @uni.ebi.ragdolls’ two cats do the whole thing on their hind legs. TWICE did it backstage, @charlidamelio did it in October, and ADÉLA performed it on The Tonight Show on 23 October with Nicole Kidman sending in a clip of her own.
The reason a page like this exists is that the routine is easy to watch and annoying to learn: the arm roll and the hip pop have to land on specific beats, and getting them wrong is visible. Here the clip you pick is the reference, not a template. You add one photo per dancer, say who is who, and the AI redraws your people into that clip doing that routine — same room, same camera, same timing, same sound. Nothing to practise, and no tutorial to sit through.
Timeline
ADÉLA’s “Nicole Kidman”, the fourth single from PRIMA, goes up on TikTok as a sound, with the line everyone quotes: “every single night, I pray that my tits are sitting right… baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole”.
@nssmagazine posts a breakdown of the film references in the video — Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut, Practical Magic — and it reaches 9M plays, putting the song in front of an audience that had never heard of ADÉLA.
Choreographer Kyler Irby (@ky.manson) posts the routine with two dancers in a driveway: 2.96M plays, 473K likes. From here on nearly every cover is captioned “dc: @Kyler F****** Irby”, and tutorials, mirrored and slowed copies follow within the week.
@icm_triplets do it as three sisters in a living room and pass 5.8M plays with 884K likes: the trio version, and the first sign the format works with more than two people in it.
@rainysannie’s duo in a lit plaza reaches 10.7M plays and 1.5M likes — the most watched take on the routine, and the one that makes “two of you, at night, outside” the standard staging.
@trxineex opens two water bottles on the first hit and dances the routine inside the spray: 2.3M plays, and the challenge gets a stunt version that other accounts copy for the rest of the month.
ADÉLA performs “Nicole Kidman” on The Tonight Show — 17.9M plays on the show’s own post, 3.4M likes — and Nicole Kidman sends in a clip saying she loves the song. The routine stops being a dance trend and becomes a pop moment.
@ellianawalmsley posts a take in heels and ballet arms and takes 638K plays in four days; the sound is at 194,041 videos. The wave is at its peak rather than past it: new posts still break half a million.
How to Make a Nicole Kidman Dance Video With One Photo
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Pick the take you want to be in
The plaza duo if there are two of you, the choreographer’s driveway trio if there are three, the lit bedroom if you are on your own, the suits if you want the office joke, the cats if the joke is your pet. The clip decides the steps, the room and the sound; your photos only decide who is in it.
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Add one photo per dancer
Image 1 is the dancer on the left, Image 2 the one in the middle, Image 3 the one on the right. Full body beats a portrait here — the routine lives in the stance, the hips and the feet — and a plain background keeps the AI from inventing furniture around you. The prompt is already written and tells the model to keep each face, hair and outfit.
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Create, watch it once, post it
You get the routine at the clip’s own length, with the song already on it. Check the hands through the arm roll and the feet on the hip pop before you post; a second run usually fixes a hand that melts. Post it with #nicolekidmanchallenge and #nicolekidmandance and caption it “i feel like nicole”, the way every other take does.
Tips for a Better Nicole Kidman Dance Video
Count your dancers before you upload
The clip you pick decides how many photos you need: the plaza take has two dancers, the driveway and the suits have three, the water-bottle and the solo takes have one. Missing a photo makes the AI improvise the last dancer, and the empty spot is obvious because they all move in sync.
A full-body photo, feet in shot
This is the rare trend where the face is not the main thing. The crossed stance, the hip pop and the little step make the video read as this routine rather than as someone swaying, and the model needs your legs and shoes in the photo to keep them straight.
Match the room to the joke
The same routine is a different joke in a plaza at night, a hotel lobby, a bedroom with a phone propped on a shelf, or a red-lit studio. Pick the clip with the room that makes your version funny rather than picking the most popular one.
The hands are where these fail
The arm roll takes both hands past the hair and out to the sides, and that is exactly the movement image-to-video models blur. Watch your first render once at half speed; if the hands merge or lose fingers, run it again — the second take usually lands.
Two dancers means two faces to keep
With a duo the model can swap the two people between the first frame and the last. Say in the prompt which photo is the one on the left and which is on the right, and check the last two seconds before you post.
Pets work, and they are a whole corner of the trend
The cats doing this routine convinced people that the format is funnier with an animal in it. Use a full-body photo of the pet on a plain floor, and the same clip: the pet dances upright on its two back legs, in the same room, on the same beat.
Pricing
Each Nicole Kidman dance video is one use (700 credits), whether you pick 13, 14 or 15 seconds. The price is on the button before you start, and nothing else is added.
A single use is $9.90; packs of 4 and 8 uses, or a monthly plan that posts trend videos to your accounts for you, cost less per video. A render that fails is refunded automatically.
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One-time video packs
Pay once and use them on any trend template, at any length. The credits never expire, and the other video tools can spend them too.
Use it responsibly
- Only upload photos of yourself, of people who said yes, or of your own pets.
- Do not use it to make someone look like they did something they did not.
- Label the result as AI when you post it; TikTok and Instagram both have an AI-generated tag.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Nicole Kidman dance?
It is the fifteen-second routine to ADÉLA’s song “Nicole Kidman”: a crossed-leg stance, both hands through the hair, a slow arm roll out to the sides and a hip pop on the line “baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole”. Two or three people do it side by side in one continuous take. Choreographer Kyler Irby posted it on 10 September 2026 and around 194,000 videos now use the sound.
What song is the Nicole Kidman dance to?
“Nicole Kidman” by ADÉLA, the fourth single from her album PRIMA, released at the start of September 2026. The line everyone knows is “every single night, I pray that my tits are sitting right, my corset is so tight, baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole”. On TikTok the sound is titled “Nicole Kidman”, credited to ADÉLA.
Who created the Nicole Kidman dance?
The routine is credited to choreographer Kyler Irby, who posts as @ky.manson and put the dance up on 10 September 2026 with two other dancers — 2.96M plays, 473K likes. Most covers since are captioned “dc: @Kyler F****** Irby”, which is how a dance credit is written on TikTok. ADÉLA performs the routine herself on tour and performed it on The Tonight Show in October.
How do you do the Nicole Kidman dance?
Four moves in order: stand with one leg crossed in front of the other, draw both hands through your hair, roll both arms out and down to the sides, then pop the hip on “I feel like Nicole” and turn to the camera over one shoulder. The timing is what sells it — each move lands on a beat, and the hip pop lands on the word Nicole.
Is this the dance from The Perfect Couple?
No, those are two different things. The Perfect Couple’s title sequence, with the cast dancing to “Murder on the Dancefloor”, is from 2024 and is often described as the Nicole Kidman dance too, because she is in it. The routine on this page is the ADÉLA song from September 2026, choreographed by Kyler Irby.
Do I have to learn the choreography first?
No. The photos only decide who is dancing; the steps come from the reference clip, so the AI does the routine for you. That is the point of this page: the tutorial accounts exist because the timing is fiddly, and you skip all of it by using a clip as the reference instead.
Can I do it with a friend, or as a trio?
Yes, and that is how most of the trend is posted. The plaza and street takes need two photos, the driveway, the suits and the party takes need three. Add one photo per dancer in left-to-right order and the model keeps each person where they were standing.
Can my cat or dog do the Nicole Kidman dance?
Yes. Cats doing this routine on their hind legs are their own corner of the trend, and the pet clip on this page is built for it. A full-body photo of the pet on a plain floor works best, since the pet has to stand up and dance with two free arms for the arm roll.
What does “I feel like Nicole” mean?
It is the last line of the chorus — “baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole” — meaning done up, in control and a bit dramatic, like Nicole Kidman. It became the caption of the trend: “i feel like nicole” goes under a take the way “he’s been practising” goes under a dancing dog.
What else is the Nicole Kidman dance called?
TikTok and Google use Nicole Kidman dance, Nicole Kidman dance trend, Nicole Kidman dance challenge, Nicole Kidman dance tutorial and Nicole Kidman dance original, plus “Adela Nicole Kidman” for the song. The captions are “i feel like nicole”, the hashtags are #nicolekidmanchallenge, #nicolekidmandance and #adelaprima. They all point at the same fifteen-second routine.
Do I keep the song on the video?
Yes. A remix keeps the audio of the reference clip, so your video has “Nicole Kidman” at the same tempo with the steps landing on the same beats. Mute it yourself afterwards if you would rather post it with a different track.
Is the AI version the same as the real dance?
It is the same routine, staged the same way: whatever clip you pick supplies the moves, the room and the timing, and the AI redraws your people into it. It is not a face swap and it is not a template that pastes a photo on a fixed background — so the result reads as your version of that clip. Label it as AI when you post it.
What is the Nicole Kidman Dance AI prompt?
The duo in a lit plaza, after dark prompt is in the AI Prompts section below. It starts: "Image 1 is the first dancer." Paste the rest into any AI video tool that accepts your photos.
Do the Routine Without Learning It
One photo per dancer, the clip you like, and your Nicole Kidman dance video is you and your friends doing ADÉLA’s routine with the song still on it.
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Nicole Kidman Dance AI Prompts
The five prompts behind the versions: the plaza duo, the driveway trio, a solo in a bedroom, three in suits, and the cat. They work in any image-to-video model that takes a reference clip plus your photos, and each one names the moves so the AI does not turn the routine into generic dancing.
Duo in a lit plaza, after dark
Image 1 is the first dancer. Image 2 and Image 3, when there are any, are the other two, left to right as they stand in the clip. The clip is a public plaza at night: paving stones still wet, a lit-up office tower behind, a metal arch on the left, the camera locked at hip height. The two from Image 1 and Image 2 stand shoulder to shoulder in the same routine, half a beat apart, and finish looking at the lens. the crossed-leg stance, both hands through the hair, the slow arm roll out to the sides, the hip pop, and the turn back to the camera over one shoulder. Keep each dancer's face, hair, skin tone, build and outfit exactly as in their photo. Vertical 9:16 phone video, one continuous take, full body in frame with the feet in shot, no text, no captions, no logos, no watermark. Audio: the “Nicole Kidman” chorus with the plaza's night air under it.
Other versions: Trio in a driveway, like the original · Solo, phone propped in a bedroom · Suits, in a hotel lobby · Your cat or dog dancing