Para para is a Japanese dance style built around synchronized arm and hand movements performed to fast Eurobeat tracks. It grew out of Japan's club scene, where dancers learned set routines and performed them together on the dance floor, and it later spread through dance videos, events and online clips shared by fans around the world. Because the routines are easy to recognise and fun to copy, the music still works as shorthand for retro Japanese pop culture, high energy and unselfconscious group dancing.