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Two-person dance · since October 17, 2026
Puerto Rican Mami Dance Guided by Your Step Video
Upload one photo and, if you have it, a short clip of you doing the moves; the photo sets your look and the clip sets the timing.
Last checked 2026-10-26
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Your photo sets the look. Your step video sets the timing.
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
Puerto Rican mami dance clips remixed for Lovart ME
A solo and a duo clip were cut from 10-second Seedance 2.0 Fast originals made from original portraits, plus one dance-night 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 written move list, 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.
Porch routine
Photo →Still→StartEnd
Porch routine
Remixed from a Seedance 2.0 Fast clip
Input
One original portrait: a woman with long dark curly hair, white tee and light jeans
Still
GPT Image 2.5 Flare, 9:16: head to knees on a warm-lit brick front porch at night, hands together at the chest
Original
Seedance 2.0 Fast · 720p · 10 s, made October 26, 2026
In the clip
From a tripod: hands at the chest, arms out wide with palms up, a shoulder shimmy, arms crossing, a side lean with a knee lift, arms wide again, then hands down to the knees
This cut
8.1 s, re-cut, reframed and steel-blue graded; no new AI generation
GPT Image 2.5 Flare image to image, 9:16 (941 × 1672), made October 26, 2026: a late-1990s block-party poster in coral, teal and cream with PUERTO RICAN MAMI / DANCE NIGHT type
Guide the Puerto Rican mami dance with your step video
Film five to ten seconds of yourself doing the moves, add it as the reference video next to your photo, and the clip follows your timing.
Your photo · the look+
Your phone clip chest · arms wide · shimmy knee lift · 5–10 s
Your step video · the timing→
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.
Add photo and step video
In the Mami tab, upload your photo, open Your step video and add the clip. The button switches to Animate my photo, with the credits for the clip length shown on it.
Pick a model with a video slot
The slot works with Seedance 2.5 (the default, step video up to 30 seconds and 200 MB) and Seedance 2.0 Mini. With Veo 3 or Veo 3 Fast the tab tells you to switch, because those models have no reference video input.
Use footage you filmed
The North Carolina friends who made the routine own their clip. Film yourself or a friend who agrees; it takes a minute, and the timing then matches how you move.
Filming a Puerto Rican mami dance reference that works
Stand head to knees in frame, hold the phone vertical and still, use a plain background, and do each move clearly once; the AI copies mistakes too.
Framing and background
Phone upright on a stand or held by a friend, not moving.
Head to knees in frame, with room for the arms out wide.
Plain wall or door behind you, even light on the face.
One clean take
Hands at the chest, arms wide, shimmy, crossed arms, knee lift, arms wide, hands to the knees, in that order.
Each move once and clearly, five to ten seconds in total.
Face the camera; no sunglasses, masks or filters.
Why mistakes carry over
The model follows the reference clip’s timing and body positions. If you miss the knee slap or step out of frame, the result does too. Watch the take back once and refilm before you spend credits.
No clip? Write one line per move, from hands at the chest to hands on the knees, and animate the still with those seven lines.
Frames come from the 10-second original behind Porch routine; each card pairs the move with its line in the motion prompt. First design the porch still with Image to Image, then start the prompt with “Use the photo as the first frame. Fixed phone on a tripod, head to knees, no cuts.” and add the seven lines in Image to Video or the Mami tab.
Shots 1 to 3
The opening: hands meet at the chest, fling out wide with the palms up, then come up by the shoulders for the shimmy.
Shots 4 and 5
The middle: arms cross in front, then a side lean with a knee lift and a slap on the knee, the move most clips build to.
Shots 6 and 7
The finish: arms wide again, then both hands down to the knees and a laugh at the phone.
Shot 1
Hands together at the chest.
Shot 1: hands together at the chest.
Shot 2
Arms flung out wide, palms up.
Shot 2: arms flung out wide, palms up.
Shot 3
Hands by the shoulders, shoulder shimmy.
Shot 3: hands up by the shoulders with a shoulder shimmy.
Shot 4
Arms crossing in front.
Shot 4: arms crossing in front.
Shot 5
Side lean, knee lift, slap on the knee.
Shot 5: a side lean with a knee lift and a slap on the knee.
Shot 6
Arms wide again.
Shot 6: arms wide again.
Shot 7
Hands down to the knees.
Shot 7: hands down to the knees and a laugh at the phone.
Photo 1 starts on the left and Photo 2 on the right; you change sides on the knee slap and finish swapped. One person per photo, face to the camera, clothes as you want them to stay.
The canopy preset
Canopy pair puts you both head to knees under a white wooden canopy on a plaza at night and runs the moves in sync with the swap in the middle. It uses the same two-photo workbench as Zombie Couple, with Seedance 2.5 and sound in one step.
The hashtag on the sitcom line started on October 13, 2026, the beat came on October 16 and the OUR DC dance on October 17.
The line
“Is that what you tell your little Puerto Rican mami?” comes from the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, where Rochelle says it to Julius (season 2, episode 16, “Everybody Hates Chain Snatching”, aired February 26, 2007). A clip went around TikTok as a sound in early October 2026.
The beat
On October 16 producer Baby On The Track (@babyonthetrack) put the line on a beat, “Keep seeing ts on my fyp”: 2.4 million views by October 25. This is the sound people dance to.
The dance
On October 17 two college friends in North Carolina, @_kenyaad and @brebre, posted the routine they made to the beat, “OUR DC”: 483,700 views by October 25. It spread as a two-person dance; the sound had 8,676 videos on October 25, almost all from the US. Phone-editor AI templates followed from October 20.
What mami means
Everyday Puerto Rican slang for mom, and a warm way to call a girl or woman. Boricua, what Puerto Ricans call themselves, comes from Borikén, the Taíno name of the island.
Feb 26, 2007The Everybody Hates Chris episode with the line airs.
Oct 13, 2026#isthatwhatyoutellyourlittlepuertoricanmami starts on TikTok.
Oct 16Baby On The Track posts the beat.
Oct 17@_kenyaad and @brebre post the OUR DC routine.
Oct 20AI photo templates in phone editors turn photos into the dance.
Puerto Rican mami dance on a template or Lovart ME
Use a phone template for a quick fixed take; use your photo with your own step video or the seven-shot list here when the moves should fit you.
Route
What you bring
What moves you
Best when
Phone-editor template
One photo
The template’s take
You want it quick and fixed
Photo + your step video
One photo + a phone clip of you
Your own timing
You know the moves
Photo, still, then shot list
One photo
The seven moves written out
You have no clip to film
Two Photos
Two photos
The canopy routine preset
There are two of you
Phone template
One photo in a phone-editor AI template and a fixed take. Peer generators also copy a real dance clip onto one photo with motion control, about 15 seconds.
Photo plus step video
The Mami tab with Your step video added: one step, your timing, on Seedance 2.5 or Seedance 2.0 Mini.
Still plus shot list
The Mami tab without a clip: design the porch still, check the face, then animate the seven moves.
Two Photos
Two photos straight to a clip with sound on the canopy preset, swap included.
Puerto Rican mami dance flyer and more video effects
Turn the still into a dance-night flyer in PhotoCraft, or take the same photo to Baile Charme Dance or Swing Dance.
The Mami flyer sample: a still only, made from the Porch routine portrait.
Flyer in PhotoCraft
Pick Mami flyer in the Mami tab and design the still. Download it, or open it in PhotoCraft, the free browser editor, to add your own date, place and names before you post.
Yes. In the Mami tab keep Seedance 2.5 (or pick Seedance 2.0 Mini), open Your step video and add a phone clip of you doing the moves next to your photo. The photo sets your look; the clip sets the timing.
Will it fix my bad dancing?
No. A reference clip passes your timing through, mistakes included. Film one clean take, or skip the clip and let the seven-shot list move the still instead.
Can I use someone else’s TikTok as the reference?
Use footage you filmed yourself or have rights to. The routine is a few arm moves and one knee lift, so a friend can film you doing it in a minute.
What does mami mean in the line?
In Puerto Rican slang mami is an everyday word for mom and also a warm way to call a girl or woman. Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call themselves, from Borikén, the Taíno name of the island. The trend plays on both meanings of mami.
Where do the sample clips 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 step video.
When did the trend start?
The hashtag on the sitcom line started on October 13, 2026. The beat came on October 16 and the OUR DC dance on October 17, 2026.
Lovart ME is an independent site and is not affiliated with TikTok, Everybody Hates Chris, Baby On The Track or the creators of the routine. Sample people are original generated adults.
