Pole dance is the best
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Where pole dancing comes from
Crimson Misty and AM Davies trace the origins of stripping (and therefore modern pole dance) in Canada, and particularly in Vancouver. Because of its lax liqueur licenses and laws at the time, 1980s Vancouver was a haven for strip clubs, where strippers were not only treated as workers – they had agents setting them up for specific club nights. It was in this environment that club owners realised having good dancers paid off, so the best strippers were hired to teach others the tricks of the trade inside clubs in the 1980s and 1990s. Realising that women outside strip clubs found learning pole tricks appealing, many of these strippers branched out and began teaching from home, or opened their own pole studios.
- Reasons to try pole dancing:
- It's super fun
- To become stronger and more flexible
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- To become more coordinated
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- Increased body confidence
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Contrary to ‘pole lore’, Fawnia Mondey wasn’t the first stripper to open a pole dance studio, although she was one of the first high-profile strippers to teach in Canadian strip clubs in 1994. According to Crimson Misty and AM Davies, Fawnia only stripped for a year or so, and then taught out of a shoe shop in Vancouver in 1998. She then moved to Nassau and stopped teaching for a while but she was, PolePedia writes, the first person to launch pole dance tutorials to learn at home in 2001. Crimson Misty and AM Davies credit Pole Junkies in Edmonton, by Alena Downs, as the first ever pole studio, opened in 2004 in her basement. One of the best entertainers in Canada, Alena had been teaching bar classes since 2002, winning a set of pole dance titles as well. Pole Junkies then expanded with three more branches and became one of the largest online pole communities, too.