Pole movies, music, and crosstraining
When bae plans like 3 days worth of activities in NYC when it’s 9 degrees and you look at each other like… want to just, like, leave?
Don’t get me wrong–we’re both poor, so we got a really cheap room. But the door on the bathroom was broken, and they upgraded us to the penthouse. Ie. rooftop. Ie. motherfucking jacuzzi, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Back soon 😉 Hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s!
Stupidly beautiful song.
Hey all!
I finally have a month off from school, and I’m on the mend from an illness that took me out of commission for the holidays, but I’m excited to start training again!!
No goals or resolutions as of yet except to get back on the horse. I want to focus more on dancing and quality of movement in general this year, not trying to beat my body into submission to perform tricks like show pony. That way of looking at pole just kind of makes me dread class, ya know?
I want to focus on flexibility and conditioning, and maybe take some modern dance/more ballet to work on that. My gym now has BARRE (did I mention that? I feel like I’ve been prancing around telling everyone who will listen) so it’s been really great to get that kind of conditioning in before and after work with my regular month membership, and without stressing about class packages at the pole studio.
How was everybody’s holidays??? Any pole goals or dope gifts? Tell meeee.
And to prove I’ve been busy, btw, check out the movies I’ve been making! Like seriously. I shot all of this footage and I edited it into videos. I had to buy microphones and shit. This has been so new and seemingly out of my depth, but it somehow got done. You’ll be amazed at what you can do when you have to!
This one’s a “journalism” style piece about a burlesque dancer I had never met until our first interview–and who I had two days only to shoot because my professor made me change topics last minute. Imagine my delight when I got to her rehearsal and realized she’s not a lyra-er trying burlesque for a the first time (a mutual aerial friend told me she was a “hooper”), but rather a long time hula hooper trying burlesque for the first time while incorporating hoop into her routine!
This chick was a total pro and an absolute joy to shoot and watch. Sadly this video captures only an iota of her talent, but still worth looking at!
And again, here’s the final cut of that PSA I made about women walking home at night (based on the true story of that time I got followed home in my neighborhood and my dad’s suggestion that I wear men’s clothes on the street to ensure my late-night safety).
Missed all of y’all, hope everybody’s doing well, in the studio and out!
This is the best part about having a creative major: you get to/are forced to use your personal experiences to make stuff!
The assignment was to make a fake PSA, so naturally, I did one about something I care deeply about: street harassment and safety.
As you guys might remember, I had a close encounter of the pervy kind last year. And my dad (meaning well) suggested that I start packing men’s clothing with me on dates so that I could pretend to be a dude on the way home and thus be left alone.
That struck me as deeply fucked up, because how is it we live in a society where gender=safety privileges, and that’s acceptable? Like, fuck that.
So I made a movie about it.
Anyway, this is my second film ever (!!!) so please excuse any glaring errors. #learning.
I’m in final projects hell at school right now but I plan to fully binge on pole for the entire month of January when I get a break.
Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving!
Re: falling in love with someone you’re not supposed to. Brb weeping.
Just saw this and realized it was totally shot at Body and Pole. (I have burned my ass on that furnace below the window so many times, hot pants and uncovered furnaces do not mix).
Also unrelated, but maybe kind of related: I just found out that not one, but THREE other girls in one of my classes (communications masters program) Â of 9 people do pole. That’s 30% of my classmates, y’all.
Uneducated whores, all of us!!
Final unrelated note in a collection of mishmash: I’m totally incorporating my lucite platforms into a halloween costume this year. I’m going as an Ashley Madison bot. Let your imagination fill in the rest.
Hope everybody’s having a nice fall so far!
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Hey guys!
Just wanted to apologize for going a bit dark lately. I’m a little short on time, but I guess I’d rather be dancing than writing about dancing! (While not actually dancing, haha).
I’ve just started my master’s degree (J school at Syracuse Newhouse, HOLLA), resumed rehearsals with the Fire Blossoms (Maki’s back from Japan, yay!), have been writing several pieces a month that embarrass my parents for Bustle, and am of course still working full time! I’ve also been trying to into the pole studio at least for my flexibility classes if nothing else, but honestly, I have not been on a pole for a while. I can’t even complain though because my lucky ass has a gym attached to my office with great classes around lunch time so I’ve been able to keep my conditioning up regardless of what I have going on after office hours. I guess I just need to worry about losing a few callouses and some grace when it comes to pole, haha.
I love being busy and I feel like I get a lot more done when I have a lot more to do–that’s a thing, right? But check back in with me in a month and I might be on the verge of a breakdown, we’ll have to see, haha.
Oh and also I have a boyfriend and I’ve tricked him into taking a flexibility class with me this week, muhahahahahahahahaha. #lifechanges.
What’s new with y’all?
…So it’s a great time to create that Glass Animals station I told you to make and get some pole inspiration without hearing about Toyota promotions.
Expert tip: whatever you hit “like” on you can find in a list later. This is what I go to when I’m putting together a pole playlist and drawing a blank on what I want to add.
Happy listening!
My search engine terms are the gift that keeps on giving.
Thanks, you guys. You shouldn’t have.
Anybody else think of this?
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