MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video was first awarded in 1989 , and it was one of the original four genre categories that were added to the MTV Video Music Awards that year . With a revamp of the awards in 2007 , the category was cut out along with several others , yet it returned for the 2008 awards , where it was given a new name : Best Dancing in a Video . In 2009 the award for Best Dancing was again eliminated from the VMAs , but it was revived again in 2010 as Best Dance Music Video . The following year , though , the award was once again absent from the category list . Once again , the award was revived in 2012 , this time under the name of Best Electronic Dance Music Video , celebrating the rise in popularity of EDM throughout the year . It was again eliminated for the 2013 awards . On July 17 , 2014 , MTV brought the category back , this time renaming it the MTV Clubland Award for the 2014 Awards . The pattern of awarding the moonman every other year continued in 2016 where the award was renamed Best Electronic Video . Finally , in 2017 this award 's name was changed to Best Dance , which it has kept until the present
2014 Awards
2014 MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video