Salah Benlemqawanssa
Known as Spider Salah, this French dancer and teacher brings popping, animation, breaking and comic characters to battles, stages and television.
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Known for
MBC
Battle of the Year
YouTube
YouTubeOverview
- Also known as
- Spider Salah; Salah the Entertainer
- From
- Saint-Denis, France
- Work
- Dancer, performer and dance teacher
- Signature style
- P.A.B.E.: Popping, Animation, Boogaloo and Effects
- Breakout
- Winner of the first Incroyable Talent season in 2006
Mini bio
How it started.
Salah grew up in Saint-Denis, France. In his own account of his beginnings, he trained with other dancers in the street and performed street shows before working in studios. His early career included The Family crew, which placed second at Battle of the Year in 1998, and the contemporary company Montalvo-Hervieu, which he joined in 1999.
A style with characters.
He calls his blend of Popping, Animation, Boogaloo and Effects P.A.B.E. His performances also draw on mime and humour. Winning the first season of Incroyable Talent in 2006 brought that approach to a wider television audience. He later won Arabs Got Talent in 2015 and Italy’s Tú sí que vales in 2017.
Beyond the battle.
His work has moved between teaching, film and live performance. Breathe the Beat paired tutorials with an invitation for dancers to create their own routines. He performed with Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, appeared and choreographed in Mad About Dance, and danced alongside B-Boy Junior in Soolking’s Rockstar 2 video.
Still sharing the craft.
Recent workshop programmes show him teaching popping and breaking in France. In his 2026 Skillzoo Nation interview, he also talks about the imagination and drawing that helped him express himself before dance became central to his life.
Creditschronological, newest first
Music videos
- 2020Soolking: Rockstar 2Dancer, alongside B-Boy Junior
Film and television
- 2017Tú sí que vales, ItalyContestant and season four winner
- 2015Arabs Got TalentContestant and season four winner
- 2014Mad About DanceCameo performer and choreographer
- 2006Incroyable TalentContestant and first-season winner
Stage and teaching
- 2011–2012Michael Jackson: The Immortal World TourFeatured dancer with Cirque du Soleil
- 2011Breathe the BeatPerformer and tutorial teacher
- 2006Battle of the YearSpecial showcase performer
Awards
Quotes
ça m’a permis de parler sans parler.Salah, Skillzoo Nation, episode 12
In the interview released on June 4, 2026, he described dance as a way to express himself: it allowed him to speak without speaking.
Trivia
- P.A.B.E., his name for his style, stands for Popping, Animation, Boogaloo and Effects.
- Before dance, drawing was an important outlet for his imagination, as he recalls in his Skillzoo Nation interview.
- He says his first training and shows happened in the street, before he worked in a dance studio.
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