Nicole The Pole interview
Nicole The Pole is a professional pole dancer with a career to die for: Rhianna made it rain on her in the Pour It Up video, she has appeared on everything from The Ellen Show to Access Hollywood, and has…
Category Pole Dance, Fitness and Wellbeing
Ramblings on pole dance and all types of exercise I do, together with my personal mindfucks on mental health.
Blackstage : Rebellion review
On April 1st Blackstage, a collective of Black excellence in pole dance, brought the United Kingdom’s pole industry together in Clapham, London: it was their second show and, having missed last year’s one due to a friend’s birthday, there was…
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Ultimate Fantasy and the importance of beginner pole shows
Ultimate Fantasy is a pole dance showcase and event centring beginner performers. Organised by my Akila Pole Studio student Rich, it was a wholesome, raucous night of fun showcasing how much beginners have to offer – and the pole industry…
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Interview with Cassie Pickersgill
Cassie Pickersgill is a tall, leggy, box dyed redhead pole dance instructor and performer, the other half of The Pole Nook pole photography and dance studio, as well as a sex worker and a theatre trained dancer with eight years…
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What makes a pole dance studio a safe space?
Pole dancing in a safe space can enhance our experience as dancers beyond the fitness, performance, self-confidence results that are usually linked with taking up pole. But what does ‘safe space’ actually mean, and how does it apply to pole…
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How to choose the right online pole dance class
What makes a good online pole dance class? This post was requested by a few of my followers, since lockdowns may be mostly over, but online pole classes are very much here to stay. The pandemic has massively changed the…
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Interview with Akila Cristiano
Akila Cristiano is the owner of one of London’s newest, most successful pole dance studios. She is also a friend, a fantastic boss, a self-taught pole queen, a neurodivergent instructor and an all-round ray of sunshine. I’m super honoured to…
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Ray Marsh Interview
Here’s my first interview with the iconic pole dance photographer Ray Marsh, who tells me about her photography journey and about her pole and photography studio, The Pole Nook. How I met Ray Marsh Ray Marsh – aka Rachel Marshall…
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Why I stopped teaching regularly
In case you missed it, I have stopped teaching. This month, I’ve made the very difficult and painful decision to not be a regular, weekly pole instructor anymore. I won’t be teaching my Tuesday classes at the lovely Akila Pole…
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When pole dancing takes the back seat
Pole dancing may be your biggest passion or even your job, but all of a sudden it takes the back seat. What happened? Whether it’s because of work, of an injury, of a big life event like grief, a pregnancy…
