Thing is, in the text of the article it states: "Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise."
Ah, but we all know that ET is not populated by the most common elements. Tomorrow I will make everyone at work look at this thing. A whole pile of scientists and engineers. It shall be most interesting to see if they all fall within the easy expectation of 'left-brained', or if there are other things afoot, and the kind of work that we do in fact requires/benefits from a large amount of 'right-brain' creativity.