Pole dancing in India Although the origins of pole dancing can be traced back to the ancient Indian sport of mallakhamb, in which wrestlers train by performing gymnastics on wooden poles, pole dancing in most of the 20th century was associated with seedy night clubs.
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In Sweden, we have a summer festival with group pole dancing.
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Trampolining, meditation, barre classes and pole dancing are fairly well-established.
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Sadly, odds are fame won't last long for little Pole Dancing Rat.
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From her bedroom, she practices and teaches the sport of pole dancing.
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" Despite her current situation, Mason admitted she's "never felt ashamed of pole dancing.
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But, as a famous philosopher once asked: why is this robot pole dancing?
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Pole dancing is gradually becoming more popular among men on the international circuit.
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This August a video went viral of a loris "pole-dancing" in Russia.
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And because who could forget, here's the pole-dancing robot from CES 2018.
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Standaert said there were advertisements around the courtyard for a pole dancing school.
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The Oscars may have snubbed her pole dancing, but the internet still stans.
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Fans joked that her pole dancing routine was revenge for her Oscars snub.
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The crew then went to the bride's activity of choice: a pole-dancing class.
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MacLean drew attention for pole dancing up until a week before her due date.
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I met my wife when she came to the pole dancing lessons I teach.
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She saw an advert for a pole dancing class and decided to try it.
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Bhinderwala says pole dancing has taught her lessons about perseverance, hard work, and forgiveness.
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Lopez didn't use a body double and performed all of the pole dancing herself.
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The trysts, pole-dancing, and cocktail-fueled carnage herein will probably work against you.
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"Literally everyone starts at square one – nobody grew up pole dancing," she points out.
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Fame, that fickle mistress, has turned her eyes on a new lover: Pole Dancing Rat.
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"Y'all know that rat is only pole dancing to get through grad school," someone said.
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A teacher was suspended for posting her pole dancing video on her private Facebook page.
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Lo pole-dancing to Fiona Apple," and several moments involving Dern's character from "Marriage Story.
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A French nightclub featured pole-dancing robots, which were created by British artist Giles Walker.
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Pole dancing is an intense workout, but anyone can learn itRegardless of skill level or background, pole dancing is always a great workout, according to Dalijah Franklin, an award-winning performer and instructor at Body & Pole, as well as the founder of Black Girls Pole.
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I am also a huge physics fan, and pole dancing is chock-full of basic physics.
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Given what we know of the roots of pole dancing, this is a perfect reasonable depiction.
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Roslyn Mays began pole dancing nine years ago when she took a class at her gym.
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Lyn Dellavedova began taking pole dancing classes seven years ago and she's been hooked ever since.
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Pole dancing is both a mental and physical workoutPole dancing isn't just about strong, graceful movement.
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This monthly showcase in the East Village celebrates both stand-up comedy and aerial pole dancing.
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Jennifer Lopez is giving fans a look at her "very difficult" pole dancing training for Hustlers.
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Narrator: Sapakie also emphasized improving Lopez's pole-dancing endurance because she knew Lopez was going to have to do her pole-dancing scenes over, and over, and over again throughout the day when they were filming — especially because her main routine was a full four minutes long.
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There are actually two pole-dancing robots, and a third companion that's supposed to be DJ-ing.
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I began with pole dancing 5 years ago, but I've been doing pole sports professionally for three.
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As any FKA Twigs fan knows, the singer had been honing her pole-dancing skills for months.
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"Pole dancing is quite intense and hard work, and from that, you will use energy," she said.
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The plot, aside from occasional pole dancing interludes, remains generally very faithful to the Brothers Grimm original.
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Mason explained that pole dancing allows her to "express herself" and provides an additional income for her household.
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Guillermo put his pole-dancing lesson to good use, getting on stage and dancing alongside the Chippendales dancers.
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Lai later told Chinese media that she is a fan of pole dancing, and considers it a sport.
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It's true that there is a strong pole dancing contingent among strippers and exotic dancers—hence the stereotype.
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Stringfellows was as expected; a leopardskin mise-en-scene with half-hearted pole dancing in the middle distance.
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Professionals make it look easy, but the reality is that pole dancing requires impressive strength, skill, and confidence.
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And while Lopez was already in fantastic shape, pole dancing requires certain muscle groups to be extraordinarily strong.
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After stretching, Sapakie slowly introduced Lopez to the principles of pole dancing, such as basic spins and climbing.
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Pole dancing is a mental and physical workoutFranklin told Insider confidence is as important as strength and agility.
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Jennifer Lopez showed off her pole dancing skills during her Super Bowl halftime show with Shakira on Sunday.
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Yes, Jennifer Lawrence admits to pole-dancing at her best friend's birthday party — but nope, she doesn't regret it.
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But it's the bachelorette parties — taking classes in pole dancing, "Southern Swagger," and burlesque — that keep the doors open.
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"Think performer in pasties pole dancing on top of a carousel horse while also singing an aria," she said.
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"Think performer in pasties pole dancing on top of a carousel horse while also singing an aria," she said.
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During the segment looking back at the scene, Ryan Seacrest and Kris remembered there was "outrage" over Kylie's pole dancing.
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After some desperate attempts at pretending everything's okay and one seriously ill-advised pole-dancing routine, Rebecca finally comes clean.
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"I thought I would do some pole [dancing], just to show that I still can," she adds in the video.
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In 2006 Tesco, a British supermarket chain, removed a children's pole-dancing kit from the toys section of its website.
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The basics of pole dancing are spinning around the pole (angular momentum) and climbing up the pole (friction and gravity).
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As a first-time CES attendee, the gimmick worked on me: What could be more CES than pole-dancing robots?
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In Mumbai -- a city of at least 18.5 million people -- CNN can only find evidence of two pole dancing studios.
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She says urban Indian women recognize pole dancing as a form of fitness and they are ready to embrace it.
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As Lopez continued to strengthen her body in the gym, she also began her pole-dancing training sessions with Sapakie.
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"If you see pole dancing in a strip club versus a pole performance, they're two completely different things," she noted.
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COSCARELLI FKA twigs learned pole dancing to make her video for "Cellophane," adding it to an already impressive movement vocabulary.
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They harmonized about J.Lo pole dancing to Fiona Apple... ...the title of the film Diane... ...and Renée Zellweger's press tour.
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Watch your mate throw up all his green shots at Platinum Lace, the city's second most popular pole dancing club!
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Check out this training montage from Finnish pole dancer Oona Kivelä (a former gymnast):In recent years, pole dancing has hit the mainstream, with lots of people—men and women of all ages—taking pole dancing classes for health and fitness, precisely because it offers one hell of a workout—and it's fun to boot.
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I've had people say they couldn't take their kids into the carousel [an art installation] where the hybrids are pole dancing.
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As pieces of art that might show up at a tech conference, though, the pole-dancing robots feel dated in 2017.
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On a trip into Brooklyn on the L, she had almost been kicked in the face by a pole-dancing kid.
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As seen in the video above, Tomoko went straight into a truly amazing pole-dancing routine, showing off her impressive strength.
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Just last month, Australian pole-dancing champion Cleo rocked our worlds by talking about her decision to continue dancing while pregnant.
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Surely you remember the pole dancing, the wigs made of large birdcages, and the lithe male bodies dusted with gold. No?
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There were energetic dance moves, surprise performers, some crowd surfing, pole dancing and plenty of hits as the pair co-headlined.
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Jennifer Lopez stunned NFL viewers when she performed a flawless pole dancing routine at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
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The US Pole Dance Federation regularly hosts events and competitions that showcase the athleticism of pole dance as a physical feat, and near the end of last year, the Global Association of International Sports Federation made pole dancing a provisionally recognized sport—the first step of many that could one day help make pole dancing an Olympic sport.
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Earlier this month, Hudson shared posts from her pole dancing workout, as well as a rainy day hike with pal Nicole Richie.
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"Pole dancing is body positive and can be very liberating and empowering, and it can really help you to focus," Gill says.
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Here's the 2009 USPDF champion (and former Cirque du Soleil aerialist), Jenyne Butterfly, performing at a pole dancing convention two years later.
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"It would have been more acceptable to look as if they were being abused at home rather than pole dancing," said Jamieson.
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I am now comfortable, and even excited, to be mainly naked pole-dancing, embracing my curves, my sultry moves, and my femininity.
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Narrator: Once Lopez started to get confident with her pole dancing, the last thing for her to master was flipping upside down.
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While pole dancing attracts mostly women — many of whom describe it as empowering and addictive — its popularity has been growing among men.
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Op-Docs Long before my friend Roslyn Mays became a pole-dancing sensation, we were teammates on our high school's soccer field.
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In addition to teaching and pole dancing, the single mother has a masters in psychology, bachelors in English, and a certificate in phlebotomy.
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Kat Bailey, however, seemed completely unfazed when her water broke — and was even up for a little light pole-dancing in between contractions.
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As we first told you, Genea said her pole-dancing days are over 'cause the fall really scared the crap out of her.
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By the 1980s it was a fixture in striptease routines, and soon there were pole dancing competitions popping up all over the world.
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In addition, the mother of two shows off her pole dancing moves, an act that she's learned for her upcoming stripper drama Hustlers.
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Read more:Jennifer Lopez is back in that green dress after 20 yearsJennifer Lopez did intense training for her pole-dancing scenes in 'Hustlers.
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People were especially into the fact that she was pole dancing (and looking hella good while doing it) at the age of 50.
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" The answer, it turns out, is the school's principal, Lai Rong, who reportedly hired the woman because pole dancing is "international and good exercise.
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A decade ago, the idea that pole dancing could be an Olympic sport would have been as plausible as suggesting gold medals for shopping.
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In November 2012, she posted a YouTube video of herself pole dancing while performing in the History of Pole at the Honolulu Fringe Festival.
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The museum has enlisted roboticist and artist Giles Walker (of pole-dancing robot fame) to head the rebuild, which should take roughly three months.
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She profiled neuroscientist Ashley Baccus-Clark, data journalist Sherrell Dorsey, pole-dancing instructor Mona Marie, artist Christina Long, and gallery director Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels.
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Fetty had been adamant the school district missed the point of his video that features images of weed and pole dancing in a classroom.
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Michael Standaert, an American journalist in Shenzhen who sends his children to the kindergarten, recorded the pole dancing, and his astonished anger, on Twitter.
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In the video, as she reveals her magnificent pole-dancing, her breathy beg of "Didn't I do it for you?" hurts all the more.
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Eight years after her first pole-dancing class, Roz has created an entire career and lifestyle around what was just supposed to be a hobby.
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After training in pole dancing in the US and the UK, she was one of the first women to teach it in Mumbai in 2002.
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Men's role on the pole To help her sport become better recognized and respected, Bhinderwala wants to remove the hyper-sexuality associated with pole dancing.
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"Whenever I get to learn something for a movie, it's always very exciting," Lopez, who trained extensively in pole dancing for her role, told Access.
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In many swaths of the country, Ms. Daniels continues to be written off as a pole-dancing Hester Prynne — a woman not to be trusted.
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However, a video of Mason pole dancing in her home, which was posted to her private Facebook account, was leaked to the Hoke County Public Schools.
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The video, which shows Mason pole dancing to the track "Superman" by the rapper Eminem, was apparently sent to the assistant superintendent by an anonymous tipster.
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Last year Human Rights Watch, an NGO, reported that Alibaba produced a video of female employees who "love tech guys", including one pole-dancing in hotpants.
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Forget Magic Mike—the male pole dancing champions are here to tell you that their sport involves a lot more than just grinding on a pole.
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A Japanese woman, going only by the name Tomoko, stunned on the judges on Italia's Got Talent when she pulled off her latest pole-dancing routine.
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I met Walker in his London studio and followed him as he began working on his latest pole-dancing robot — a bigger, raunchier, and sassier version.
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"Off to the @amberrose #slutwalk with my girls," Wilkinson, 31, wrote in an Instagram post of herself showing off her pole dancing moves aboard the bus.
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Unlike other performative arts like burlesque or pole dancing, there is an element of "having to be sexy" that's missing when it comes to stand-up.
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There was one catch when New York City commuters were treated to an impromptu pole dancing show on the subway this week: the performer was a rat.
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Recreational pole dancing had already spread to urban areas across the country, but, as Hall told me, its sexualized connotation was harder to shake in the South.
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Chances are when you you think of pole dancing, the mental picture you summon is this:Demi Moore trained for months before strutting her stuff in Striptease (1996).
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But Chyna, 27, and Kim Kardashian West used to be friends: She even appeared on KUWTK alongside Kim, 35, during a pole-dancing class in season 9.
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John Legend on The Ellen DeGeneres Show saying he loved Chrissy Teigen's pole dancing in the 'Magic Michelle' skit Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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Today we salute Alex Rodriguez ... for having the presence of mind to pull out his phone and start recording when Jennifer Lopez decided to go pole dancing.
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Some retreat routinely to the reassuring familiarity of fishnet hose, tight T-shirts and pole-dancing shoes, he pointed out, but are rarely aware of their lineage.
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But all had been drawn, in one way or another, into the curious hybrid of art, sport, exotic dance and fitness craze that pole dancing has become.
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She uses dance but not in the form of go-go dancing: It's not pole dancing, and it's not the local men's night, with a stripper there.
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There are a lot of group activities at these parties, such as yoga classes, group tours, pole dancing, and some of them I would never opt into.
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She's a pole-dancing performance artist and world traveler who has been devoted to one of the most controversial figures in America – but just who is Lindsay Mills?
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But, she is a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer and combines pole dancing, total body resistance exercises and core conditioning to make crazy fun workouts.
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It's important to loosen the spine, shoulders, and hips in order to provide a wider range of motion for the undulating movements that are central to pole dancing.
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Narrator: Because Sapakie also choreographed all of the pole-dancing scenes in "Hustlers," she knew exactly what moves Jennifer was going to have to perform for the film.
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The first time we see Constance Wu in the Hustlers trailer, she's staring up at Jennifer Lopez, who's giving her a lesson in the basics of pole dancing.
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Cyrus has always known how to get people talking, starting with her pole-dancing at the VMAs during "Party in the USA" and her twerking on Robin Thicke.
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Mason said that she has been pole dancing in her home for years, to exercise and de-stress, and had already taken steps to make her Facebook more private.
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A message strengthened by the 2015 social media campaign #Notastripper, which saw devotees loudly celebrate pole dancing and encourage more people of all ages – and genders – to try it.
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It also includes goods aimed at children who are seen as trying to make themselves "sexier"—such as padded bras or hot-pants, make-up or pole-dancing toys.
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V Live Detroit's casting call has strippers going all-out to get noticed, and standard pole dancing ain't gonna cut it when the competition has wings ... on her ass!
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We talked to two pole dancing instructors to find out what makes it both difficult and rewarding, and what advice they have for people curious to try it themselves.
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"In our industry, money is a touchy subject so we really don't talk about taxes," Marie, who owns the pole-dancing studio Poletic Justice, told me over the phone.
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The 36-year-old has documented her pregnancy on her blog and Instagram, writing on her blog that she originally intended to stop pole-dancing but changed her mind.
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WWE superstar Lana wasn't satisfied with your average Thursday night out ... so, she hopped on stage at an iconic L.A. gay bar and put on a POLE DANCING CLINIC.
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By seven this whole place will be a seething mass of bodies doing improbably athletic things with one another, and naked girls smoking cigarettes, pole-dancing to Snoop Dogg.
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"The district education bureau believes performing pole dancing for kindergarten children is not appropriate," the statement said, adding the school had been asked to apologize to students and parents.
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It's one thing to decide you want to spend your Tuesday nights learning pole dancing, but it's another to realize that classes will set you back hundreds of dollars.
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It would also have been easy to miss the possible political symbolism in J. Lo and Shakira's halftime show with its explosion of hip gyrations, pole dancing and Latin rhythms.
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Kandice Mason, a North Carolina teacher and part-time pole dancing instructor, was suspended after a Facebook video she posted of her performing in her home was forwarded to administrators.
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Bach Weekend, a planning company which has spawned from the rise in pre-wedding celebrations, organizes entire itineraries, including brewery tours, open bars, and pole dancing classes with matching swag.
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In a statement posted to Weibo on Monday afternoon, the local education bureau said an investigation had found a pole dancing business had been invited into the kindergarten to perform.
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While no one's recommending child pole dancing classes, this could have been a teachable moment for Kylie's parents and a chance for compassion from the Keeping Up With The Kardashians viewers.
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But on Monday, the former baseball star, 43, took his skills to the next level, filming video of Lopez as she rehearsed a pole-dancing scene for her upcoming movie, Hustlers.
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Mason said that she has been pole dancing in her home for four years and uses it as a way to exercise, de-stress, and as a form of creative release.
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Jennifer Lopez's iconic pole-dancing routine in "Hustlers" may have been the talk of Hollywood this awards season, but a very different movie scene also seemed to get people's pulses racing.
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It also called out large technology firms for objectifying women in order to attract new male personnel, sharing a video produced by Alibaba in 2014 that featured pole-dancing female employees.
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"In a bizarre moment when asked by host Piers Morgan whether Johnson had ever used the pole-dancing pole in her flat, she replied "I'm never going to tell you that.
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Wednesday has two strategies for augmenting her bottom line, one of which is to coax the luscious Destiny (Vanessa Morgan), a pole-dancing prostitute, to join her stable of hardworking women.
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And there was a thread in which Snowden wrote that his girlfriend had been invited to a pole dancing competition in China; presumably, he queried security officials about whether they could attend.
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In an effort to build more friends and have a better sense of community, I started taking different classes and workshops that I've always wanted to try, like pole dancing and burlesque.
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She owns Poletic Justice , a pole dancing studio that has become the base for women organizing New York's recent "stripper strike," which protested the colorism and racism that is rampant in strip clubs.
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In 2002, after a stricter pole-dancing law was introduced in Amsterdam, the post of a voluntary "night mayor" was created to lobby on behalf of the night-time club and entertainment industry.
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Wu is set to play up-and-coming stripper Destiny, who learns the ropes of pole dancing from Lopez's Ramona, only to plot ways to get rich by stealing from their rich clients.
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Click through the slideshow to find out how you can recreate Ramona's fur coat look, her pole-dancing-to-Fiona Apple getup, her casually-getting-arrested outfit, and a bodycon dress scamming ensemble.
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She'd made a deliberate decision to not take any of the photos or videos down and instead was using her college business degree to build a career out of her pole-dancing passion.
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Paris got tons of selfies with her girls as she shimmered in a silver jumpsuit, but the big highlight of the night was when Larsa filmed Paris hitting the stage for some pole dancing.
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From her "shattered glass" nails and Hustlers-inspired pole-dancing routine to deeper themes of representation, family, and politics, Jennifer Lopez left no stone unturned in her historic Super Bowl halftime show with Shakira.
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Of course, the rap legend pulled out all the stops for the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team's annual Late Night in the Phog pep rally on Friday ... complete with pole dancing women and money guns.
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Newspapers are enjoying the chance to print stories that combine details of the alleged conflict of interest with snippets about Ms Arcuri's former career as a model and her reported enthusiasm for pole-dancing.
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And yet, this massive mecca of stripping located just off the Las Vegas Strip had somehow become the site of one of the most widely-covered events at this year's CES: Two pole-dancing robots.
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For "conservative feminists who lament recreational pole dancing as evidence of the 'pornification' of culture," the worst thing that could happen to a woman is that she'd be compared to a sex worker, Berg says.
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And while some may have interpreted Lopez's decision to include the pole dancing section after her Oscars snub as an artistic act of defiance, Tabitha insisted the moment had been in the works for months.
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While filming "Hustlers," she was insistent that the director Lorene Scafaria "get a close-up of my face," she said, lest someone think a stunt double jumped in for that film's remarkable pole dancing scene.
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The biggest challenge facing "Hustlers" might have to do with expectations, since the marketing doesn't fully capture the movie's more nuanced aspects, while much of the advance coverage seems enamored with Lopez's pole-dancing workouts.
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It's the king of subway pole dancing, Forty Smooth, performing the US premiere of Gerard & Kelly's State of, which took place at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on February 15.
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In the April 2018 issue of Cosmopolitan, the rapper addressed why she's open to speaking about her pole-dancing days: 'People say, 'Why do you always got to say that you used to be a stripper?
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In the April 2018 issue of Cosmopolitan, the rapper addressed why she's open to speaking about her pole-dancing days: 'People say, 'Why do you always got to say that you used to be a stripper?
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A pole dancing class, a bicycle bar, a pedicure, a wine tasting tour — and, by the end of the night, a trip to the honky-tonks on Broadway, where bachelorettes have become conspicuous, ubiquitous, and unavoidable.
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"Pole-dancing with a baby inside of you is a lot heavier and difficult, and we had to adapt the routine for health and safety reasons," she told local paper The Nottingham Post at the time.
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It's on Saturday, and I'm working 215-210, so I have to miss the pole-dancing class, unfortunately (I probably can't do it with my shoulder anyway?), but I can join for dinner, drinks, and dancing.
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One of Lopez's biggest supporters as she prepared for the role in the film (which she is also co-producing) was fiancé Alex Rodriguez, who shared videos of her rehearsing a pole-dancing scene in February.
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Zamora, who operates a sport pole dancing academy in El Salvador, said she considered herself more of a dancer than an athlete but just the same was happy to bring success to her sometimes troubled country.
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Both Dave and his pole dancing champion wife, Sarah Jade, joined the guys on "TMZ Sports" (airs tonight on FS1) and told us all about the serious strength and athleticism it takes to master the craft.
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"Literally any body can do it, any age, race, ethnicity, weight, height, can take a pole class," Franklin added, saying that she's taught people in their 70s who were trying pole dancing for the first time.
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And there was a thread in which Snowden wrote that his girlfriend, a dancer and acrobat, had been invited to a pole dancing competition in China; presumably, he queried security officials about whether they could attend.
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Last year, visitors could make their way to a separate room to demo virtual and augmented reality porn, and pole-dancing robots were an attraction at a nearby strip club, meant to coincide with the event.
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On Tuesday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel, 51, shared a clip of their wild night in "the penis necklace capital of the planet" — which included a pole-dancing class, a psychic and a Chippendales show.
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The heist film starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart and Lizzo is set in a strip club and the trailer opens with Lopez demonstrating for Wu some impressive pole dancing.
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For the next two-and-a-half years, while she completed her MA in sociology at Mumbai University, Bhinderwala shuttled between India and Australia, where she took pole dancing courses, eventually becoming an advanced-level pole dancer.
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At that point Roz had been teaching pole-dancing classes and participating in amateur pole shows for about five years and had lost three jobs because of the photos and videos of her performances that existed online.
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The three discuss Google's voice-activated assistant, beauty gadgets and pole-dancing robots, as well as the severe shortage of women among CES's keynote speakers (and why its apology for that fact doesn't pass the smell test).
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In one brothel in Bogota's downtown red light district, Maria, a former university student from Venezuela, stands beside a pole dancing area with colored fluorescent lighting, waiting for the first of up to 10 clients of the day.
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In addition to the private and small-group workshops she leads at studios around the country, she has started her own fitness training program and produced Dangerous Curves, the first pole-dancing competition specifically for plus-sized dancers.
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Mr. Snyder was "bringing the craft closer to pole dancing with every season," said a 2009 column in The Washington City Paper, which referred to an advertisement on Mr. Snyder's WTEM-AM sports talk radio station that year.
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You read that headline correctly ... "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Dave Bautista says he got a WHOLE NEW respect for pole dancing -- when he actually tried to do some of the moves himself ... yes, Bautista got on the pole!
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At a sex party they host, Witt watches a "pole dancing instructor perform a poignant dance to the song 'Wildest Moments' by Jessie Ware," and, as often throughout her travels, finds herself in a stance both skeptical and sympathetic.
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"Today whilst dancing with Kelly at the choreography house I felt like my strong self again for the first time in a while and it was magical," she captioned the black and white video of her doing a pole dancing routine.
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Given that she also performed an entire pole-dancing routine while nearly eight months pregnant (a time when many women probably don't feel at their physical peak), it's not surprising that going into labor didn't stop her from having another whirl.
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But this week pole dancing – or pole, as many who practise it would prefer we call it – was officially recognised as a sport and is now able to apply for membership of the International Olympic Committee, as reported in The Times.
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Most alarming of all, I had to explain to my fellow audience members at a role-playing evening based on teen horror-movie conventions why I, just a small-town girl named Lila-Marie, had developed a passion for pole dancing.
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But while pole-dancing robots might have been just a silly side effect of CES a few years ago, tech's recent grappling with the industry's obvious issues of sexism and gender disparity now put stripper robots in a very different light.
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Read more: Here's all the major tech we're expecting at CES 2019, the biggest tech convention of the year Things haven't quite escalated to the degree it hit last year, where a pole-dancing robot performed at a nearby gentleman's club.
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Since starting her own studio, New York Pole Dancing, in 2005, Ms. Traskos has had to contend with the misconception of dancing on a pole as synonymous with stripping — though "if that's what you do for money, no judgment," she said.
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J.Lo's Pole Dancing Pain Lopez had to master the pole for Hustlers, and a YouTube vlog showed the prep was "just as hard as anything I've ever learned," the actress revealed, pointing out the cuts and bruises on her legs.
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"I try to analyze extreme forms of gesture and movement in genres that follow specific codes, such as pole dancing, tecktonik, clubbing, vogueing, R&B, tap dancing, and the languages of everyday movement in different cultures," Bachzetsis told Frieze in 2013.
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In the case of pole dancing, you would measure where the center of mass falls with respect to the pole, then multiply the dancer's weight by whatever that radius is to determine how much total weight they actually have to hold up.
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Then, on the latest episode of King of the Road, our show that follows Thrasher magazine's epic cross-country skateboarding competition, the teams head to Portland and attempt to conquer the flaming rail of doom and show off their moves at a pole dancing competition.
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The competitive pole dancing community emphatically insists that pole is not a synonym for "stripping": In fact, the sport requires the level of training and skill more commonly associated with high-level gymnasts or contemporary dance, neither of which are viewed as sexual pursuits.
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Read these stories next: Why It Matters That Andy Murray Is Continuing To Call Out Sexism In Sports That Mother-Daughter Pole Dancing Controversy Is Just Another Instance Of The Patriarchy At Work There's Actually A Scientific Explanation To Why Certain Men Harass Women On The Street
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In addition to discussing her upcoming performance in Black Panther, Nyong'o revealed to Vogue that she's taken up pole dancing as a fun form of exercise and that there's a chance she'll star alongside Rihanna in a comedy for Netflix (no, this is not a drill).
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In 2008, Dawson decided to launch a YouTube channel called "Shane Dawson TV." However, his YouTube content got him into trouble early on: After recording himself pole dancing while at work, Dawson and six other people (including his mother and brothers) were fired from their jobs.
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With its stigmata and stabbing shock-cuts, "Black Swan" is "Grand Guignol with pretensions to class," and "Flesh and Bone" ups the ante with incest, self-mutilation, Russian mobsters and fancy-ass pole-dancing, reducing the ballerina to a tormented butterfly pinned by the Male Gaze.
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The internet in China lit up with video of the pole dance performance on Monday at the Xinshahui Kindergarten in Shenzhen, accompanied by outrage and wonderment that anyone would think pole dancing was a reassuring way to greet anxious children being dropped off for a new semester.
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Kandice Mason told BuzzFeed News she was preparing to start work as a sixth-grade English and language arts teacher at West Hoke County Middle School in Raeford, North Carolina, when she was suspended because administrators objected to the pole dancing videos she posted on her personal Facebook page.
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Kim could be referencing that time momager Kris Jenner crashed her pole-dancing exercise class with, of all people, BLAC CHYNA (Were we ever so innocent?!) in season 9 … or when a young Kylie Jenner shocked her sister by channeling the Pussycat Dolls on her mother's stripper pole.
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Amidst all the hair and makeup booths, headlined by MySpace celeb turned YouTube vlogger turned cosmetics mogul Jeffree Star, attendees could buy items ranging from Swarovski crystal headpieces to vegan-friendly bondage wear, or get gems put on their teeth decoratively and sign up for pole dancing classes.
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US Defense Secretary Ash Carter recently trumpeted "America's dedication to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Philippines," but it seems several US troops got a little too close to a group of off-duty Filipino cops earlier this month at a pole-dancing club in the city of Puerto Princesa.
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Kink returned in force at the fall 2016 shows this year, with lace-up corsets, wet-look bodysuits and leggings, corsets, fishnet hose and pole-dancing pumps shimmying their way into the collections of Alexander Wang, Hood by Air, Prada, Balmain, Marc Jacobs and Vetements, to name but an influential few.
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A menacing team of chefs flour and stretch her like pizza dough, pelt vegetables at her like a salad, boil her in oil, then serve her as an hors d'ouerves plate before, you know, Perry starts pole dancing and getting ready to chow down on a pie made of human body parts.
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Lopez pulled off four seamless outfit changes onstage during the performance, which won praise from the likes of Lady Gaga and Cardi B. She also showed off the pole-dancing skills she learned for "Hustlers" once again, paid tribute to her Puerto Rican roots, and sang with her 11-year-old daughter Emme.
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Read more:How Jennifer Lopez's infamous 2000 Grammys dress — which was un-retired this week — inspired Google image search'Hustlers' gave Jennifer Lopez the biggest live-action box office opening of her career with $33.2 million7 things you didn't know about Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez did intense training for her pole-dancing scenes in 'Hustlers.
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Read more: I took a pole dancing class, and I have a newfound respect for strippingPole dancing has been gaining popularity, largely thanks to sex workers fighting against stigmaPole dancing is a form of performance art that has been gaining mainstream popularity over the past decade as a fun and empowering fitness routine.
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"If you'd have told me during that first pole-dancing class..." (which, she adds, kicked her ass completely) "...[that] I would eventually be leading classes of my own all around the country, and would have ended up on TV four times doing this, I would have slapped the shit out of you," she laughs.
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While recent research has revealed that exercising during pregnancy brings many benefits, fear and stigma around doing so has lingered — which is one of the reasons we're kvelling over "Cleo The Hurricane," the two-time winner of the Australian Pole Championships, who was still rocking her pole-dancing heels days away from giving birth.
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I needed a break from the monotony of memorization, I wanted to meet people, the gym was cool enough to boast a pole-dancing class I'd never take, and the location (just a half-block from a Tasti-D-Lite) seemed to promise me entrance into the "Sex and the City"-themed life I imagined.
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It can take months to become a pro, but anyone can get a good workout out of pole dancing"I always thought I was very fit, but it was extremely humbling to try pole for the first time," Kiele Jael, an instructor at Incredipole with more than a decade of dance experience, previously told Insider.
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"Cleo also opened up about her pregnancy's impact on her self-image: "I absolutely love being pregnant, for the most part," she wrote, "but I have also never felt so unsexy as I do today, especially in the last trimester... I have been craving and loving that feeling of putting on my heels, a sexy song and pole dancing.
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It was raised by a piece in The Atlantic about a mother and public relations executive, Florie Hutchinson, who discovered that when you type "shoe," the emoji that tends to come up is a red stiletto: a style with, shall we say, certain, very specific associations, which range from the decorative to the pole-dancing-oriented.
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Related: Video Shows US Troops Brawling With Cops at Pole Dancing Club in the Philippines "There is no change to our stance that the shift to Henoko is the only solution when we think about maintaining the deterrence of the US-Japan alliance and removing the risks of the Futenma airbase," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.
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In many ways, Mills and Snowden seem like a case study in opposites attract: While he comes across as a privacy-seeking introvert in Citizenfour, the 2014 Oscar-winning documentary about his decision to leak thousands of classified documents, Mills is much more open, posting scantily-clad photos of herself online, and even a pole-dancing video of herself on YouTube.
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Read more:Jennifer Lopez wore a reversible cape that looked like the American and Puerto Rican flags during her Super Bowl performancePeople are calling Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's performance the best Super Bowl halftime show in yearsJennifer Lopez showed off her pole dancing skills during the Super Bowl halftime show, and fans are joking that it was revenge for her Oscars snub
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"The push to reframe pole dancing as an edgy—but not too edgy—form of exercise is part of a bigger story of non-sex working women appropriating sex workers' cultural and theoretical innovations while at the same time doing all they can to distance themselves from sex workers," says Heather Berg, a lecturer at USC who researches labor, sex work, and public policy.
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The Chinese version used by acrobats features two or more poles, and the acrobats perform tricks while leaping from pole to pole, like this:In the US, pole dancing acts were common in circuses and sideshows during the 1920s, but it's generally accepted that the apparatus didn't make it into actual strip clubs until 1968, when a woman named Belle Jangles took to the pole at the Mugwump Strip Club in Oregon.
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Read more:Fans are raving about Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl halftime show, the best one in years by farJennifer Lopez wore 5 showstopping looks for her Super Bowl performance and pulled off 4 seamless outfit changes onstageJennifer Lopez showed off her pole dancing skills during the Super Bowl halftime show, and fans are joking that it was revenge for her Oscars snubThe best memes from Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl halftime show
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Read more:People are calling Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's performance the best Super Bowl halftime show in yearsJennifer Lopez showed off her pole dancing skills during the Super Bowl halftime show, and fans are joking that it was revenge for her Oscars snubJennifer Lopez's 11-year-old daughter Emme performed with her mom at the Super Bowl and sang her heart outThe best memes from Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl halftime show
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And Jessica Diehl, the Vanity Fair stylist best known for rendering Caitlyn Jenner as a smoldering 1950s-style bombshell, is interrupting a conversation with Bellamy Young, the "Scandal" actress, to explain to this reporter that the most challenging part of dressing the world's most famous transgender person for her debut as a woman was finding a pair of size 14 shoes that did not make Ms. Jenner look as though it were pole dancing for which she won a medal at the 1976 Olympics.
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Read more:Jennifer Lopez shared a behind-the-scenes video of herself training to play a stripper in &aposHustlers,&apos and it shows that stripping is even harder than it looksJennifer Lopez took photos of the bruises she got from pole dancing for &aposHustlers&apos because someone accused her of using body doublesLatinx and Spanish-speaking fans are celebrating Shakira and Jennifer Lopez&aposs Super Bowl halftime show as a triumph of representationPeople are calling Jennifer Lopez and Shakira&aposs performance the best Super Bowl halftime show in years
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