Dancing Funeral, also known as Dancing Coffin and Coffin Dance, are a Ghanaian group of pallbearers based in the coastal town of Prampram, in southern Ghana's Greater Accra Region. Clips of the pallbearers dancing while carrying a coffin have become one the biggest viral memes of 2020.

Benjamin Aidoo, who started the group as a daily pallbearer service, heads the Dancing Pallbearers. He was the mastermind behind the idea to add choreography to their pallbearing work.^[13]

Coffin dancing is an ancient tradition which is common in Ghana. The country's inhabitants employ special dancers for the funeral to carry the deceased cheerfully to the next world. There have been several videos featuring dancing ghanians that have gained popularity on the internet. The first oneappeared on YouTube in 2015.^[14]

The Dancing Funeral are locally referred to as Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service or Dada awu, which performs throughout the country of Ghana as well as internationally.

Extra fees are paid for dancing during a funeral with the coffin.

In 2017, the Dancing Pallbearers first gained popularity when they were featured in a BBC World News report. ^[14][7]

As the clips are picking up popularity, people have continually compared them to the Danse Macabre genre which became popular in Europe during the Late Middle Ages when artists every depicted death in some form or another coming to claim victims of the plague.

The group went viral as a darkly humorous Internet meme in April 2020 when videos of people experiencing various mishaps were widely posted to YouTube and TikTok, accompanied by clips of the pallbearers dancing with coffins.

The clips are normally paired by Russian recording artist Anton Igumnov with the song "Astronomia," and remixed by the Dutch duo Vicetone. Many uses of this meme are widely associated with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2019–20.

According to Know Your Meme, the clip began it's viral rise on February 26th, 2020 when a TikTok user named @lawyer_ggmu (previously @khvichagogava) posted the first known version of the meme paired with a wipeout clip. The TikTok received over 4.5 million views and 474,700 likes in a single month. Throughout march the clips spread and continued to rack up tens of millions if views. ^[15]

The social media meme was taken to the streets in Brazil, as a billboard picture showing the coffin dancers was seen with the caption:

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