"I Don't Dance" is a song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 performed by actor/singers Lucas Grabeel

Lucas Grabeel

Lucas Stephen Grabeel is an American actor, singer, dancer, songwriter, director and producer. As a performer, he is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in Disney Channel Original Movie's High School Musical and its sequels High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year , and as...

 and Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu Reivers , known professionally as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer, producer, and singer-songwriter. He performed in the High School Musical film series, the Discovery Kids drama series Flight 29 Down, and the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In!...

 in the television movie

Television movie

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 High School Musical 2, released in 2007

2007 in music

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. It is one of seven songs from the soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 High School Musical 2

High School Musical 2 (soundtrack)

High School Musical 2 is the soundtrack album for the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name. It is the third best selling album of 2007, behind Josh Groban's Noël and Daughtry's Daughtry in the U.S....

 to reach the Billboard Hot 100

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. It was also named as the official theme song for the 2007 Little League World Series

2007 Little League World Series

-Pool play:The top two teams in each pool move on to their respective semifinals. The winners of each met on August 26 to play for the Little League World Championship. Teams marked in green qualified to the knockout stage, while teams marked in red were eliminated.Ties are broken based on records...

.

Scene in High School Musical 2

In the film, High School Musical 2, the song is performed on a baseball field. Actor Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu Reivers , known professionally as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer, producer, and singer-songwriter. He performed in the High School Musical film series, the Discovery Kids drama series Flight 29 Down, and the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In!...

 was beaned

Hit by pitch

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 on three different occasions while filming the scene. On the challenges of filming the scene, Bleu stated "It's bad enough that you're mixing acting with dancing and singing all at once. But then you throw sports into it and it's incredibly difficult — especially for me."

Reviews

The Village Voices Tom Breihan called the song "the movie's best dance-number" and commented how the routine managed to "include rapping and swing-dancing, which sort of blew [his] mind." Reviewer Erin Nolan referred to the song as "insanely catchy." Not all reviews were positive though. The reviewer for the Charlotte Observer called the tune "excruciating," The New York Times

The New York Times

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 felt that the "HSM2 was the shallowest movie he had ever seen" was "a superb idea, as it plays off both the Latinization of the major leagues (by letting a little salsa into the hip-hop) and the spectacular pitcher-batter operetta showdowns of recent seasons," but that the camera work let the scene down noting that "viewers never get a sustained look at the choreography ... and for that reason it’s hard to appreciate specific dancers or their clever configuration."

Promotional video

The promotional video for the song blends scenes from the movie's dance sequence with clips of notable Major league baseball

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 players including Ryan Howard

Ryan Howard

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, Cole Hamels

Cole Hamels

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, Jimmy Rollins

Jimmy Rollins

James Calvin "Jimmy" Rollins , nicknamed "J-Roll", is an All-Star and former MVP shortstop, who most recently played for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball's National League....

, Jake Peavy

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Jacob Edward Peavy is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Chicago White Sox. He bats and throws right-handed...

, Justin Verlander

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, Craig Biggio

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Craig Alan Biggio is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, catcher, and outfielder. He played his entire 20-year baseball career with the Houston Astros . He ranks 21st all-time with 3,060 career hits, and is the ninth player in the 3000 hit club to get all his hits with the same team. He...

, David Eckstein

David Eckstein

David Mark Eckstein is a former American professional baseball player who was an infielder in Major League Baseball for ten seasons. He played college baseball for the University of Florida, and has played professionally for the Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona...

, So Taguchi

So Taguchi

is a Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder who is currently playing with the Orix Buffaloes. Previously, he has played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball, and with the Orix BlueWave in Nippon Professional Baseball.Taguchi is the first...

, Bronson Arroyo

Bronson Arroyo

Bronson Anthony Arroyo , is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and an aspiring musician. He has previously played for the Pittsburgh Pirates between 2000 and 2002 and Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2005...

, C. C. Sabathia, Nick Swisher

Nick Swisher

Nicholas Thompson "Nick" Swisher is an outfielder for the New York Yankees. Swisher is a switch hitter who throws left-handed....

, Jeff Francoeur

Jeff Francoeur

Jeffrey Braden Francoeur , nicknamed "Frenchy", is a Major League Baseball right fielder who now plays for the Kansas City Royals. Francoeur is known for a strong throwing arm.-Minor league career:...

, Brian McCann, B.J. Upton, Bill Hall, J. J. Hardy, Luis Gonzalez, Takashi Saito

Takashi Saito

is a Japanese professional baseball player.Saito previously pitched for the Yokohama BayStars in the Japanese Central League, compiling a record of 87–80 over 13 seasons...

, Torii Hunter

Torii Hunter

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, Shane Victorino

Shane Victorino

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, and Nomar Garciaparra

Nomar Garciaparra

Anthony Nomar Garciaparra is a former Major League Baseball player. After playing parts of 9 seasons as an All-Star shortstop for the Boston Red Sox, he played third base, first base, and designated hitter for the Oakland Athletics, first base and third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and...

. The video was shown in Major and Minor League ballparks throughout the country during the summer of 2007

2007 in baseball

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, and it was showcased on The Baseball Youth Road Trip, a summer tour presented by the Major League Baseball Players Association

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 stopping at youth baseball tournaments and Minor League Baseball parks. The I Don't Dance music video shown at over sixty youth baseball events during the Road Trip, culminating at the Little League World Series

Little League World Series

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, where it served as the theme song for the games.

Formats and tracklistings

A promotional CD single for the song was released in Portugal but without an English version of "I Don't Dance" and a music video was also made. The music video can be seen on High School Musical 2 2-Disc Deluxe Dance Edition DVD.

Chart performance

It made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 at number 74 in the chart for September 1, 2007.

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	95
Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...	81
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	70
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...	50