Pole Dance Championship, first held in 2009 at the now-shuttered Bleecker Street Theater, is the federation’s signature event.) A former gymnast and go-go dancer, Ms. Pole Dance Federation (U.S.P.D.F.) in 2008. “It feels extremely mainstream.”Ĭreating a supportive, inviting environment has always been important to Wendy Traskos, the competition’s founder, who established the U.S. “I know straight men that pole dance now, and that’s awesome,” said Blaine Petrovia, 27, also a competitor in the men’s division. While pole dancing attracts mostly women - many of whom describe it as empowering and addictive - its popularity has been growing among men. Kyle, 27, would also be competing in the men’s division, one of just five contestants in that category. Some have backgrounds in gymnastics or ballet others never danced before attending their first pole class. Some, like Cristi, work full-time in other fields, practicing and teaching pole dance on the side others make their living in the growing pole dance industry, as teachers and studio owners. The other competitors at this two-day event - 115 in all - had also, clearly, caught the pole bug. “It’s a great way for me to de-stress, add some creativity, and all those types of things,” she said, explaining why, five years ago, she got hooked on pole dancing.
(To keep her professional life separate, she preferred to use only her first name.) Pole Dance Championship, whipping herself around a steel apparatus to “Cornflake Girl” by Tori Amos.
She would need that limber spine in a few hours, when she took the stage at the U.S. But on a recent Friday afternoon, she could be found at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side, doing a split in the theater aisle as a friend pulled back her arms, assisting her in a deep stretch. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.On most weekdays Cristi, 33, works in marketing for a fashion company, a regular 9-to-5 job. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering.
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