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Rio charme · since October 16, 2026
Baile Charme Dance With Your Own Steps as the Guide
Upload one photo and, if you like, a short clip of you doing the four charme beats; the photo sets your look and the clip sets the moves.
Last checked 2026-10-26
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Your photo sets the look. Your steps set the moves.
Your photo
9:16 vertical · the still is made first, then animated as the first frame
Your step video · optional
Film five to ten seconds of yourself doing the steps, full body, phone held upright. Up to 30 seconds and 200 MB. Your photo sets the look; the clip sets the moves.
Joining the trend is free; making it on Lovart ME uses credits from packs starting at $9.90 for 250 credits. Each button shows its exact cost before you generate.
SAMPLE · INPUT → RESULT
Sample inputs and result from this page. Your result will appear here.
Start with an idea
01 / Samples
Baile charme dance samples cut from 10-second originals
One solo clip and one duo clip were cut from 10-second Seedance 2.0 Fast originals made from original portraits, plus one party-flyer still.
All people are original generated adults. The two clips are Lovart ME cuts of clips made for this trend with Seedance 2.0 Fast from a designed still and a four-beat prompt, not from a step video; the cards show the real portraits and stills behind each one and what moves in the original. Nothing here was made with the workbench above.
Front of the crowd
Photo →Still→StartEnd
Front of the crowd
Remixed from a Seedance 2.0 Fast clip
Input
One original portrait: a man in his late 60s, grey afro, round glasses, cream shirt
Still
GPT Image 2.5 Flare, 9:16: full body at the front of a packed night party in a cobbled square, floodlights and blue market tents behind
Original
Seedance 2.0 Fast · 720p · 10 s, made October 26, 2026
In the clip
He grins at the phone, side-steps with forearms swinging in front of his hips, leans in with his hands at waist height, glances back side-on, then turns back to the camera; the crowd dances behind him
This cut
8.8 s, re-cut, reframed and steel-blue graded; no new AI generation
Two original portraits: a woman with long box braids in a yellow top, a man with a shaved head in a white tee
Still
GPT Image 2.5 Flare with both portraits: side by side under a concrete viaduct, string lights and a DJ booth behind
Original
Seedance 2.0 Fast · 720p · 10 s, made October 26, 2026
In the clip
Arms linked, they side-step in sync with shoulders bouncing, lean forward together, then turn toward each other laughing; she stays left and he stays right
This cut
8.7 s, re-cut, reframed and graded; made from a two-portrait still, not with the Two Photos tab
GPT Image 2.5 Flare image to image, 9:16, made October 26, 2026: a 1980s Rio soul-party poster in cream and burnt orange with BAILE CHARME / SABADO type
Make the baile charme dance from one photo in three steps
Upload a full or three-quarter body photo, design the night-crowd still and check your face, then animate the four beats into a vertical clip.
Pick a photo with room to move
One person, face large and sharp, and as much of the body as you have: full or three-quarter length gives the arms and legs room for the steps.
Design the night-crowd still
Front of the crowd runs Image to Image and puts you, full body, at the front of a packed night party, as if a friend held the phone. Check the face; if it is off, rebuild the still before you animate.
Animate the four beats
Animate it uses the still as the first frame with the four-beat motion prompt: Seedance 2.5, 10 seconds by default, with the credits on the button.
Guide the baile charme dance with your own step video
Film five to ten seconds of yourself doing the side steps, lean and turn, add it as the reference video with your photo, and the clip follows your timing.
Your photo · the look+
Your phone clip side steps · lean · turn 5–10 s, full body
Your step video · the moves→
Your clip you, moving on your timing
The result
Diagram only: the samples above were not made with a step video, so no result clip is shown here.
Film the steps on your phone
Phone upright, full body in frame from head to feet, plain background, good light. Do one groove, one lean and one turn in five to ten seconds; Seedance 2.5 accepts a step video of up to 30 seconds and 200 MB.
Add photo and step video
In the Charme tab, upload your photo, open Your step video and add the clip. The slot works with Seedance 2.5 (the default) and Seedance 2.0 Mini; with another model the tab tells you to switch. Press Animate my photo.
Why not the original clip
The Seu Zé clip and the dancer it copies belong to their creators. Your own steps are free to use, and the clip will move the way you actually dance.
Open the Two Photos tab, put yourself in Photo 1 and your friend in Photo 2, keep the viaduct preset, and you dance side by side in one clip.
Photo 1 · leftPhoto 2 · right→StartEnd
Who goes in which photo
Photo 1 stands on the left and Photo 2 on the right for the whole clip. Use one person per photo, each face large and sharp, ideally both in similar light.
The viaduct preset
Duo under the viaduct lights puts you both full body at the front of a Saturday-night charme party under a concrete viaduct, then runs the steps in sync, a lean together and a half turn toward each other. It uses the same two-photo workbench as Zombie Couple, with Seedance 2.5 and sound in one step.
Write the moves as four beats: glance back at the phone, side steps with bouncing shoulders, lean and slide the hands, then turn back to the camera.
Frames come from the Front of the crowd sample; each card pairs the move with the line of the motion prompt behind it. Start the prompt with “Use the photo as the first frame. One continuous handheld phone shot with slight natural shake, the phone held by a friend in the crowd.” and keep it to one groove, one lean and one turn in about 10 seconds.
Beat 1: the glance back
Side-on to the phone, he looks back over his shoulder with a grin.
He turns from the glance back to face the phone.
Beat 2: steps and shoulders
Small side steps on the beat, shoulders bouncing, forearms loose in front of the hips.
Small side steps on the beat, shoulders bouncing, forearms swinging loose in front of his hips.
Beat 3: lean and slide
A forward lean with the hands passing each other at waist height.
He leans forward and slides his hands past each other at waist height.
Beat 4: the turn
A side step and a turn back to the camera.
A small side step and a turn back to the camera with a grin.
Seu Zé and the real party behind the baile charme dance
Seu Zé is an AI grandpa posted by @seuzerj on October 16, 2026; the Pedra do Sal crowd and the dancer he copies are real, and charme is Rio's R&B party dance, not baile funk.
The source post
@seuzerj on TikTok, October 16, 2026: a 27-second, one-take handheld clip of Seu Zé de Madureira, an AI-made grandpa in round glasses and a red shirt, dancing charme at the front of a packed night crowd. 139,400 plays on October 26.
An AI grandpa in a real square
Pedra do Sal is a real square in Rio’s Saúde neighborhood. The real dancer Zenegão filmed himself leading that crowd in August 2026; the AI versions copy the opening of his take.
Charme versus baile funk
Charme began in early-1980s Rio with smooth R&B and love songs, danced in synchronized group steps (passinhos); DJ Corello is credited with the name. Baile funk took the fast Miami-bass beats. The best-known baile charme runs on Saturday nights under the Madureira viaduct, Rio cultural heritage since 2013.
The song people ask about
TikTok labels the sound “som original - seuzerj”. Trend pages name the party track as Nelly Furtado’s “Say It Right”; CapCut reposts often carry “Ice Ice Baby”.
Aug 2026Zenegão films himself leading the crowd at Pedra do Sal.
Oct 13, 2026The first AI remake of his opening appears.
Oct 16@seuzerj posts the Seu Zé de Madureira clip.
Oct 18The one-slot CapCut template “Ty” goes up; 271,560 uses by October 20.
Oct 26A Portuguese tutorial passes 428,100 plays; commenters report a missing button or a paywall in CapCut.
Use the CapCut template if it opens on your phone; use your photo with your own step video or the four-beat prompt here when you want the moves to fit you.
Route
What you bring
What moves you
Best when
CapCut “Ty” template
One photo
The template’s fixed clip
The template opens for you on your phone
Edit of the original clip
One photo + the source footage
The original take
You have rights to that footage
Photo + your step video
One photo + a phone clip of you doing the steps
Your own steps
You want the timing to match how you dance
Photo, still, then prompt
One photo
The four beats written as a prompt
You have no step video
The CapCut "Ty" template
One photo slot, a fixed clip. Some people find the template button missing or behind a paywall.
An edit of the original
Swaps you into the source footage. Only worth it when you have rights to that footage.
Photo plus your step video
The Charme tab with Your step video added: one step, your timing, on Seedance 2.5 or Seedance 2.0 Mini.
Photo, still, then prompt
The Charme tab without a step video: design the night-crowd still, check the face, then animate the four beats.
Turn the still into a party flyer in PhotoCraft, or take the same photo to Swing Dance or the two-photo story.
The Charme flyer sample: a still only, made from the Front of the crowd portrait.
Charme flyer in PhotoCraft
Pick Charme flyer in the Charme tab and design the still. Download it, or open it in PhotoCraft, the free browser editor, to add your own date, place and DJ names before you post.
The first AI remake appeared on October 13, 2026. The Seu Zé de Madureira clip went up on October 16, and the one-slot CapCut template “Ty” followed on October 18 with 271,560 uses by October 20.
Can I use a video of my own steps as the motion guide?
Yes. In the Charme tab, keep Seedance 2.5 (or switch to Seedance 2.0 Mini), open Your step video and add a short phone clip of you doing the four beats. Your photo sets the look; the clip sets the moves.
Can I use the original Seu Zé clip as the reference video?
Use footage you filmed yourself or have rights to. The steps are simple: a friend can film you doing them in a minute, and the timing will match how you move.
Where is the baile charme party in real life?
The trend clip is set at Pedra do Sal, a real square in Rio’s Saúde neighborhood. Rio’s best-known baile charme runs on Saturday nights under the Madureira viaduct, Viaduto Negrão de Lima.
Is baile charme the same as baile funk?
No. Both grew out of Rio’s 1970s black music parties. Charme kept the smooth R&B and love songs and danced them in group steps; baile funk took the fast Miami-bass beats.
Where do the sample clips on this page come from?
They are remixes of Seedance 2.0 Fast clips made for this trend on October 26, 2026: re-cut, reframed and color graded, with no new AI generation. Each card shows the original portraits and the still behind it. None of them used a reference video.
Lovart ME is an independent site and is not affiliated with TikTok, CapCut, @seuzerj or any baile charme party. Sample people are original generated adults.
