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Toc Toc AI: make the hallway knock dance with you or your pet

The Toc Toc dance from one head-to-toe photo: the moves it does, the photo that works, adding Patrick Sébastien’s song and posting it full screen.

By the Reelfie team · Updated

A man in socks marching toward a low camera in a narrow apartment hallway, one knee high, grinningThe result
An illustration of the finished clip, seen from the floor.

Quick answer

Open Toc Toc AI, choose you or your pet, add a standing head-to-toe photo and press make. You get a 10-second vertical clip in one unbroken take from a phone on a hallway floor: a high-knee march into the lens, a hop back, two knocks on the air, a shrug, a strut and an arms-wide ta-da. It’s 100 credits, and the song is added when you post.

The song is “Toc Toc”, released by the French singer Patrick Sébastien in 2015. A TikTok creator paired it with a one-foot hop and two knocks on an invisible door, and in late September 2026 the dance took off in France, then spread across Europe and to the US, where the song picked up the nickname “Kicékéla”.

Part of the appeal is the camera: a phone propped on the floor at the end of a hallway, so every dancer looms huge as they march in. Toc Toc AI recreates that shot around your photo, which also means your dog can finally learn it.

The routine, in the order the clip does it

  1. 1A march straight at the low phone, knees high, until knees and face fill the lens.
  2. 2A hop backwards down the hallway with a foot kicked out.
  3. 3One-foot hops and two knocks on an invisible door: the “toc toc”.
  4. 4Palms-up shrug, then a side-on strut on the spot with one leg flicking up behind.
  5. 5A spin back to the camera and a proud, arms-wide ta-da.

It’s one take with no cuts, and the camera never moves. A pet does the same routine upright on its hind legs, knocking with a front paw and opening both front legs for the finish.

It’s always the same hallway

Only the dancer comes from your photo. The setting is fixed: a narrow apartment hallway with off-white walls, a white door and a light wood floor. So your own corridor doesn’t need tidying, and your photo’s background doesn’t matter.

Standing, head to toe

Most of this dance is legs, so the photo has to include them. Your clothes and footwear carry over, bare feet included; something that moves when you hop looks better than stiff jeans.

Works

Standing upright, whole body in frame, shoes or feet visible, nobody else in shot.

Struggles

Cropped at the knees, sitting or lying down, a group photo. The tool has to invent the legs it dances with.

For a pet, a photo of it standing on all fours, side-on or facing you, beats a curled-up nap shot. Ears and tail in view help.

Step by step

  1. 1Open the Toc Toc AI page and choose who dances: you or your pet.
  2. 2Add one head-to-toe photo of the dancer standing and facing the camera, shoes or paws in view.
  3. 3The button shows what it costs before anything runs: 100 credits for a 10-second vertical clip.
  4. 4Press make. It takes a few minutes and keeps going if you leave; if the run fails, the credits are returned.
  5. 5Download the MP4 from Assets. It has no music, so add the Toc Toc sound in TikTok or Reels and line the two knocks up with the beat.

Have a photo ready?

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The song, full screen, and posting

In TikTok, upload the MP4, tap Add sound and use a Toc Toc sound from a post you like. Slide it until the two knocks land on the two knocks in the music, then mute the clip’s own audio. Picking the sound in the app is what puts your video on that sound’s page.

Wondering how to make TikTok videos full screen? Shape is the answer: a 9:16 video fills a phone, and this one already is. Upload the downloaded file, not a screen recording, and don’t put it inside another frame in an editor, which is how bars creep in.

  • Use the close-up, knees and face filling the lens, as your cover.
  • Stitch it under a Toc Toc video you love to join the chain.
  • Tag #toctoc and turn on the AI-generated label.

Common problems

  • The legs look invented

    The photo was cut off above the feet. Retake it full length, standing, with some floor visible under you.

  • My pet looks stretched when it stands up

    Use a photo where its whole body is clear and not curled up, standing side-on or facing you.

  • The knocks are off the beat

    Move the song, not the clip: in TikTok’s sound trimmer, shift the start a fraction at a time until the knocks match.

  • TikTok shows black bars

    You uploaded a re-framed or screen-recorded copy. Post the MP4 from Assets as it is.

FAQ

What song is the Toc Toc dance?

“Toc Toc” by Patrick Sébastien, from 2015. In the US it’s often called “Kicékéla”.

Can my dog or cat do it?

Yes. Choose the pet option: it dances on its hind legs, knocks with a front paw and opens both front legs for the ta-da.

Is the hallway my own home?

No. It’s the same plain apartment hallway every time; only the dancer comes from your photo.

Can two people do it together?

Not in this template: it takes one dancer per video. Make one each and post them back to back.

How much is it?

100 credits a clip, about $6.19 on the smallest pack (up to 2 videos for $9.90). Credits come back if a run fails.

Make your first one

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