You can either click your way there or type your way there...can even do a combination.
You can click the button to the right of where you enter text, a menu pops up, click Emotes to pop out the submenu of emotes, and they will be listed there.
You can type out the dance you want to do by doing /e (/emote) and the following:
For the dance contest the best way would be to summon the emote list as described above and then use the pin button to keep it open. Otherwise you have to reopen it for every single emote and start searching again for the right one.
Then you just have to wait for the dance commands and go click, click, click....
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You can click the button to the right of where you enter text, a menu pops up, click Emotes to pop out the submenu of emotes, and they will be listed there.
You can type out the dance you want to do by doing /e (/emote) and the following:
dance
dance_basic
dance_club
dance_legkick
dance_raisetheroof
dance_robot
dance_sidestep
dance_snake
dance_therunningman
dance_wavehands
Or if you type /e dance, it will pop up with the list of dances available to you and you can click on one to do it.
There's also the fan dance from the Nimbus thing you can add to that, don't have it on the toon I'm looking at...
Hope that helps.
Then you just have to wait for the dance commands and go click, click, click....