The silhouette illusion depicts a rotating dancer. Published online (Kayahara, 2003) it has since travelled the internet. As any silhouette, the display is depth-ambiguous. Consequently, the direction of rotation is ambiguous as well. The online community has noticed that perceived rotation direction is biased toward one direction, and a number of hypotheses have been provided to explain this. Here, we systematically test the hypothesis that our visual system prefers to see the silhouette from above rather than from below. We varied camera elevation and show that the resulting biases do indeed account for the ones observed in the original illusion.