--- title: 'Oscar Isaac Dances' Shows He Can Dance To Anything description: Oscar Isaac's dancing skills are being put to good use with a new Twitter account that pairs his Ex Machina dancing scene with iconic songs. canonical: https://time.com/4349986/oscar-isaac-dances-twitter/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-26T21:41:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:46.773Z og:title: Watch Oscar Isaac Dance to Drake, Britney Spears and More og:description: A man of many talents og:url: https://time.com/4349986/oscar-isaac-dances-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Oscar Isaac Dance to Drake, Britney Spears and More twitter:description: A man of many talents twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Oscar Isaac Dance Perfectly To Drake, Britney Spears and More > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 26, 2016 9:41 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 26, 2016 9:41 PM UTC You already knew that [Oscar Isaac](http://time.com/4301247/oscar-isaac-2016-time-100/) was the [Internet’s boyfriend](http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/01/oscar-isaac-internet-boyfriend.html), but did you know that he can dance perfectly in sync to any song? We first got a taste of his hot dance moves in the movie[ _Ex Machina_](http://time.com/3789656/ex-machina-review/), when he did an impressively dexterous routine to “Get Down Saturday Night” with robot girlfriend Kiyoko. Now you can relive the glory of that moment by watching Oscar Isaac dance to a myriad of iconic tunes thanks to the Twitter account [@oscardances](https://twitter.com/oscardances). The account posts Isaac’s truly magical dance scene from the movie dubbed with even more magical songs, ranging from The Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” to Drake’s [own parody-spawning “Hotline Bling.”](http://time.com/4204129/drake-hotline-bling-t-mobile-super-bowl-commercial/) See the best of Oscar’s dances below. > [](https://twitter.com/oscardances/status/735784562660237312) The Talking Heads dance routine we never knew we needed, thanks to Oscar Isaac and Kiyoko. > [](https://twitter.com/oscardances/status/735762560356474880) Oscar Isaac is a huge fan of early-aughts Britney, as you can see. > [](https://twitter.com/oscardances/status/735689184233455618) Here’s a tale for all the fellas trying to dance like Oscar. > [](https://twitter.com/oscardances/status/735636157388623872) Oscar even Rick rolls. > [](https://twitter.com/oscardances/status/735690599626510337) Oscar could definitely take on the 6 God with these moves. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4349986/oscar-isaac-dances-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4349986/oscar-isaac-dances-twitter/"},"headline":"Watch Oscar Isaac Dance Perfectly To Drake, Britney Spears and More","datePublished":"2016-05-26T21:41:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:46.773Z","description":"A man of many talents","url":"https://time.com/4349986/oscar-isaac-dances-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Oscar Isaac"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4349986/oscar-isaac-dances-twitter/","name":"Watch Oscar Isaac Dance Perfectly To Drake, Britney Spears and More"}}]}] ```