How to make your cat do the crazy Chinese dance with super fast footwork

Updated 2026-11-02 · Shanshenbu Dance

That dance is shan shen bu (闪身步), the "flash step": a dead-serious sideways dodge from Chinese folk dance that went viral in September 2026, and the cats doing it are AI remakes. To make your own cat do it, upload one photo of your cat below: it stands up on its hind legs and does the flash step in a 5, 10 or 15-second video, from ⁠$4.99⁠ for one video, paid once with no sign-in, ready in 2 to 5 minutes.

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What the dance is called

Shan shen bu, also written shanshenbu and called the Chinese flash step. The step comes from the Flower Drum Lantern folk dance of Anhui province; a Beijing Dance Academy tutorial filmed in the 1990s with teachers Zhao Tiechun and Ming Wenjun was posted online in 2018, and Chinese social media turned its moves into a meme in September 2026 (The Star, from the South China Morning Post, 13 October 2026).

AI creators on TikTok then remade it with animals, among them a fluffy white cat dancing in a courtyard. The "super fast footwork" is the flash step itself: a stiff pause, a sudden lunge to one side, a snap back, all with a straight face.

What your cat does in the video

Your pet stands up on its hind legs, stiff and serious
A sudden wide lunge to each side, snapped back
A crouching back kick and a stare into the camera

Make one of your own cat

Choose one photo. One pet, whole body from ears to paws, face clear, in good light; sitting or standing both work.
Upload it above (no sign-in needed) and pick the length (5 to 15 seconds), quality and format. Tapping the button confirms the photo is allowed: photos of your own cat or dog only, one pet per photo.
Pay for just that video (from ⁠$4.99⁠, one payment, no subscription), or use credits: a 10-second 720p video uses 40 credits; credits from ⁠$6.99⁠ for 50, or a monthly plan.
Wait 2 to 5 minutes. The video shows up in My videos when it's ready.
Download the MP4 and post it, labelled as AI-generated. Pick the trend's sound in TikTok when you post if you want it.

What about the CapCut "Shanshenbu Cat Meme" template?

Since 28 October 2026 CapCut and MemeCut have had cat templates for this trend, called "Shanshenbu Cat Meme" and "Shanshen Cat". In their demo videos the same white cat does the same moves over a different background each time (a tea field, a forest), so the template changes the picture behind the cat, not the cat. For your own cat to dance, the video has to start from your cat's photo, which is what the generator here does. We watched the demos on TikTok on 2 November 2026; we didn't use the templates ourselves.

Here or Try a Trend

We opened Try a Trend's Chinese Flash Step template and pricing page on October 29, 2026 and wrote down what they said; we didn't buy a video, so this compares what's offered, not how the videos look.

	Try a Trend (Chinese Flash Step)	Shanshenbu Dance
You upload	One photo of your dog or cat	One photo of your own cat or dog
The moves	A sideways flash-step dodge, a one-leg hop kick and a bear shake	The flash step: lunges left and right, snaps back, a crouching back kick
Length	10 seconds, 720p, vertical	5, 10 or 15 seconds, 480p or 720p, vertical or horizontal
Sound	Silent; add the sound in TikTok	A Chinese folk percussion beat, or off
Price	$4.99 for your first video, then $5.99 each; free still preview first (5 a day)	From ⁠$4.99⁠ for one video; no free preview

What it can't do

Animals don't really stand like this, so the AI invents the pose: legs and paws can look odd in fast moves, and long fur blurs. One pet per photo, your own; no people in the photo.