Plenty of dancers have done their take on Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams dance, but many fans are calling Kamila Valieva’s figure skating version the best of the lot! Jenna Ortega famously danced in an ‘80s goth style to The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” during the school dance scene in the Wednesday Netflix series. Valieva took this to the next level by integrating the dance into a graceful figure skating routine, blowing up YouTube in the process.
Valieva is a Russian figure skater who is the current world record holder in free skating. Her take on the Wednesday dance took off like a rocket on YouTube, attracting 33 million views. In a full goth Wednesday outfit, Valieva initially danced in a somewhat more traditional figure skating style to an orchestral piece, before the music changed to The Cramps. She then changed tack big time and started doing the strange moves of Ortega’s Wednesday school dance scene.
Valieva really nailed the look and vibe of Wednesday, and performing a regular dance routine while on ice skates was an impressive touch. The audience were loving it and quickly began clapping along to the beat of the psychobilly tune. She then melded the two styles, combining figure skating jumps and spins along with the novelty dances from the Wednesday scene. The routine was super inventive and fun, and no doubt introduced her to a whole new audience outside of the figure skating crowd.
Fans watching online loved Valieva’s routine and added comments such as “By far the best remake of the Wednesday dance. She even managed to completely nail the character’s stoic face as well as Jenna while doing all that” and “What a phenomenon. An incredible interpretation that only Kamila is able to do.” You can watch Ortega’s original Wednesday dance from the Netflix series below, which drew 66 million views on YouTube.
Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday dance scene caused quite the stir online and created a dance craze where many fans imitated or reinterpreted the dance. The scene features various novelty dances in a way that is reminiscent of John Travolta and Uma Thurman’s famous twist dance scene in Pulp Fiction.
As we’ve covered here on The Music Man, Travolta himself suggested including the novelty dances in the Pulp Fiction scene, which he drew from dance crazes he recalled from his youth. The development of the Wednesday dance was similar, as Ortega choreographed the routine herself, explaining that she took inspiration from goth dance club moves from the 1980s as well as Siouxsie Sioux and Bob Fosse.
If you would like to see more of Kamila Valieva’s incredible figure skating routines, you can follow her on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kamilavalieva26).
