Most people wouldn’t combine spiders and ballet. But when Milena Sidorova did, she soon went viral.
Do you know the old saying, “As graceful as a spider”? No, you don’t because it isn’t a saying.
Spiders are creepy instead of graceful.
But Milena Sidorova is a ballet dancer who has turned those creepy spider movements into something unusually beautiful.
She practiced her spider routine tirelessly, until it was ready for the world to see.
Her performance began with her moving onto the ground. She stretched her arms and legs out. The sight definitely looked like a spider.
Then she moved her hands and feet to the music, looking around while doing so.
After that, she moved her body around in circles on the spot.
Then she started moving her arms and legs, lifting up her right arm at the same time as her left leg and then vice versa. As she did this, she moved forward.
Next, she lifted her torso off of the ground, moving her arms as if she were a spider climbing.
Soon, she was standing up straight and moving across the floor, continuing to stretch her arms and legs out as she moved.
Then she pirouetted several times. Perhaps this symbolized a spider wrapping a fly with web?
After that, she somersaulted over the stage slowly.
Then she moved across the stage rapidly. She briefly moved back to the ground before forming her final position.
The audience cheered. Luckily, someone was filming this performance.
The video appeared on YouTube. To date, it has gained over 14.2 million views.
It also has more than 97,000 likes and 6,600 comments. People have been saying things like this:
This performance is certainly special.
So many dancers and choreographers have been able to interpret the moves of a swan or a cat on stage. But taking a creepy animal like a spider and making a dance based on its movements that ends up being graceful? That’s an achievement!
In fact, this performance has gone on to become Milena Sidorova’s most popular on YouTube by a significant margin.
Her next most popular video has 3.1 million views.
The video is called the naked truth, but it contains no nudity. Instead, Sidorova and her dance partner wore skin-colored body stockings.
The video began with the two dancers crawling onstage from opposite sides.
They slowly stood, pretending to struggle as they did so, as if they were babies learning to balance themselves.
Then, as Sidorova was about to “fall” her dance partner grabbed her arm.
He pulled her as he walked back, until she lost his grasp and fell forwards.
She started walking away from him, but then he took her hand again.
After this, they both started dancing together, sometimes taking one another’s hands.
Eventually, Sidorova’s dance partner walked off the stage, as if he was rejecting her. Sidorova continued to dance on stage alone.
Then Sidorova fell to the ground in despair and the lights on the stage went dark.
The lights went back up again, and Sidorova stood, hand in hand with her dance partner.
Finally, the dancers bowed to their audience.
Clearly, Milena Sidorova is a highly talented dancer. She deserves the acclaim she’s getting!
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