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When Your Only Company Is a Mirror and Music

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Nadia Genois   I had recently promised myself to create more opportunities to dance, improvise, to have these moments that are generally revitalizing but that too often escape me because of fatigue or laziness. Yet it is a pleasure that I have discovered in recent years, to improvise to give yourself permission to be in […]

Gender Fluid Acts

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Learning Strength

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Jenn Pilotti   I recently took up pole dancing. My sister thinks I am having a midlife crisis which, though it may be accurate, isn’t the reason I felt compelled to begin flipping upside down on a solid vertical object. In actuality, the act of learning how to navigate my body around a pole gave […]

Pole Engagement

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Effortlessness

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Horizontality & Core Integrity

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Pokes & Provokes

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Sevinc Gurmen   A Series of Philosophical Posts.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Sevinç Joy G. (@joy_g_wild)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Sevinç Joy G. (@joy_g_wild)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Sevinç Joy G. […]

A Genuis Use of Space

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Krystyle Bryn   This gal needed a place to practice and teach aerial and pole, so she got herself a bus.     View this post on Instagram   Sitting here, staring at myself, thinking back to last well when I wasn’t sick ?? · · · · #fitlife #fitness #fitfam #dancelife #danceislife #snoozeyoulose #buslife […]

Connecting Feldenkrais with Pole

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Nadia Genois   This has been a long time coming. It seemed it should have been easy, connecting two passions together but somehow it just was not happening. To be fair or precise I should say in fact it was happening, in myself, my movement, my body. A transformation and an incarnation of this exploration […]

Finding Your Tribe

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Nadia Genois   “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”― Brené Brown   Last september, I was in Boulder for a Floorflow certified teacher gathering. One day after the training, I was in a car with Marlo (Fisken) who was leading the training, Ken (Kao) her partner […]

A Pole Dancer’s Perspective or is it?

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By Nadia Genois I’m a pole dancer. I also am a lot of other things, especially as identities are fluid and in constant evolution. Through movement you create the form in which you live. A certain quality. Why did I choose pole ? What attracted me to it ? Why am I staying ? As […]