Spiders and ballet? An unlikely combination, but you never know what you’re getting with these things! After all, spiders are a lot more graceful than they’re given credit for.
It takes some insane balance and precision to spin all those webs and hang by a silk thread, mind you!
Milena Sidorova is on the same page. Our go-to references for graceful animals are swans, cats, horses or deer. The poor arachnids never get the credit they deserve. Hasn’t Spider-Man’s incredible agility and grace made that point well enough?
Hailing from Kiev, Ukraine, Milena made dance her passion from a young age. It was one of those chance realizations where she always knew what she wanted to do.
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There was no doubting or questioning whether this was truly what she wanted.
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Her Spider dance is really something else. It takes an experienced dancer to totally change your perception of something.
Watch her dance, and you’ll start thinking of spiders as elegant and wonderful instead of creepy-crawly nuisances.
Without a second to waste, Milena already adopts the spider-stance. Arms and legs outstretched, bobbing left to right like those very same web-weaving companions that share your home with you.
Then, from sideways bobbing, she goes into a forward walk. It’s every bit as crawly and spider-ey as the real deal. Hats off to Milena for pulling that off!
She’s got half the limbs, but all of the movement.
It’s almost odd and unusual to watch, but that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? The oddly entrancing, itty bitty steps and outstretched limbs. It’s so convincing that I half expected someone to run onto the stage and swat Milena with a newspaper.
With how perfectly she pulled off those moves, it seems clear that she knows this choreography like the back of her head. And that’s exactly what’s going on. She came up with it when she was 13.
“As a kid, I really loved spiders and I used to observe them a lot. They had this particular way of moving and were still very gracious creatures, although a bit weird. When I studied ballet professionally, I once tried to imitate the movements of a spider in the living room — which made my mother laugh a lot. She said: “Hey, why don’t you make that into a dance?”’
Perhaps mom was joking, but Milena saw an opportunity. Thus, the spider dance was born.
Though naturally, you need to be gifted with a bit of that arachnid flexibility to pull it off. When asked if the dance is hard, Milena had this to say :
“Yes. Not necessarily because it requires advanced technical skills, but the spider pose requires a certain flexibility in your hips and lower back that even most professional dancers do not possess.”
Alas, most of our dreams of shedding all our responsibilities and becoming spiders disappeared, just like that.
That stretching and warming up is really important, and getting to it as early on as possible really helps.
But even being blessed with that spidery flexibility, there isn’t any doubting that insane skill and practice is still a huge part of this. Milena has both, and she put them to good use. Quite a lot of people are sharing her itsy bitsy performance on social media.
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