"Native Dancer" (Japanese: ネイティブダンサー, Hepburn: Neitibu Dansā) (Japanese pronunciation: [neitibudansa:]) is a song by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on January 7, 2009 as a digital single from the band's third album Shin-shiro. Its accompanying music video directed by Yuichi Kodama was a critical success, winning the best conceptual video award at the 2010 Space Shower Music Video Awards.

In 2010, the song was remixed by electronic musician Rei Harakami for inclusion on the band's "Aruku Around" single. This would become one of Harakami's final releases before his death in July 2011.

After releasing two albums based in Hokkaido under the BabeStar Label sublabel of Victor Entertainment, Sakanaction signed a contract with management group Hipland Management and joined the main Victor Entertainment band roster, moving from Hokkaido to Tokyo in the spring of 2008. The album was primarily created by band members in vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi's apartment in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. In December, Sakanaction released their first physical single "Sen to Rei", which became the band's first top 40 release.

"Native Dancer" is a song in verse–chorus form, recorded in common time with a major key of D major and a minor key of B minor. The tempo is set at 130BPM, and the song has a length of four minutes and twenty-five seconds. The song opens with a piano instrumental progression of G6-Asus4-Bm7, which remains constant throughout the verses and choruses until the song's end in an instrumental coda. The song additionally features an arrangement of drums, guitar, bass guitar and synths. The song's lyrics feature a protagonist looking back sadly on a relationship, likening painful memories to a winter flower.

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