We are sitting down to talk to our new instructors for PoleCon 2026! Learn more…
Interview with New PoleCon Instructor: Marshall
We are sitting down to talk to our new instructors for PoleCon 2026! Learn more about them and then click here to purchase their workshop
1. We’re so excited to have you teach at PoleCon 2026 this year! Can you tell us a little more about what you’re teaching?
My workshop “Art and Sport” is all about taking dynamic skills and tricks and incorporating them organically into dance flows. Often, we place a lot of emphasis on the “trick” and spend less time developing our transitions and our own artistic style. This workshop balances fluidity and dynamics to weave in and out of exciting shapes in a way that feels artful and natural.
Some skills that would be good for attendees to have for my workshop include: aerial inversion to leg hook, shoulder mount or princess grip mount from the floor, brass monkey entry, ayesha
2. Is there something that defines your style of teaching or your content that is unique to you?
My style of movement is heavily based on a contemporary dance and balletic background. My classes move through a progression that starts with isolation of small muscle groups and grows into larger movements. My technique incorporates a lot of weight shifting and momentum catching with the pole, so that the dance can transition effortlessly from fast to slow, big to small, soft to dynamic.
3. What is the one thing you want your students to leave with after taking your workshop?
I want my students to leave with a deeper sense of their own movement quality. Wherever students are at in their pole journey, it’s never too early or too late to start developing your personal movement aesthetic. This unique quality that we all have can be layered onto any movement form and can make students more confident in approaching any technique when it comes from their body’s innate way of moving.
4. What are you most excited about for PoleCon 2026?
I’m very excited to meet new people from different places, all coming with a strong love of pole. I’m excited to share this love with others and see all the amazing talent that is out there.
5. Anything else you want to share with PoleCon attendees?
I’m very excited to meet everyone! I hope you’ll stop by my workshop, and we can have so much fun training, laughing, and dancing this art form together!
Colleen Jolly is an entrepreneur and a pole dance enthusiast. She has been poling for 15 years, is the CEO of PoleCon and the Executive Director of the IPIA. She teaches pole, lyra, floorwork, and mobility online and in-person in the DC metro area. She has been active in leadership roles in several international businesses over the past two decades and is also an award-winning pole dancer, artist, writer, and speaker. She is certified in several movement modalities and wrote the book "Mobility for Pole" to help pole dancers move better.
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