Don’t Pole on That! A Note About Safety
If you’ve read my other blogs, you know I’m more of an aerialist than a pole dancer, but in the past week or so I’ve seen some horrifying examples of how poles are installed. Now, for these examples, I don’t…
PoleCon presents, IPIA Webinar Recap: Interview with Neola Wilby, Author of “Strength and Conditioning for Pole”
This information is from Neola Wilby’s webinar ”Interview with Neola Wilby, Author of "Strength and Conditioning for Pole” held on April 28, 2022. IPIA Members can view the entire webinar at this link. If you purchased a ticket to PoleCon…
What’s in Your Gig Bag?
We talked about what’s in your pole bag before, today, we are going to talk about what’s in your Gig Bag. I’m primarily an aerialist, but I’ve done my fair share of lollipop lyra gigs. These are the things I…
How Useful are Recovery Wearables When Doing Pole and Aerial?
The year of our lord 2025 has really been a doozy. I’ve been feeling like a corpse lately, and I wanted to figure out: is it post lockdown blues? Turning 35? Have I finally gotten out of the trauma response…
I’m Hypermobile. What Does That Mean for Pole?
The words “hypermobile” and “Ehlers Danlos Syndrome” definitely make their way around the pole and aerial communities. Athletic arts like pole, aerial, and gymnastics often attract folks whose bodies allow greater degrees of freedom—but that doesn’t always mean those bodies…
A Professional Makeup Artist Taught Me This
Y’all. I am the worst at being femme. I have little patience for discomfort these days so most often you’ll find me in 100% cotton loose fitting clothing, braless and shoeless. I have aspirations of doing aerial performance gig work,…
Keep Getting Your Booty to the Poll
Get Your Booty to the Poll (GYBTTP) was a 2020 campaign that used pole dance to encourage Black men in Atlanta who are part of the club culture to get out and vote in 2020. At the time, the ad…
That’s $howbiz, Baby
The past 12 weeks, I’ve had the honor of being part of my studio’s second ever Student Performance Troupe. The Student Performance Troupe is a group of six students, led by one of our circus-school-graduate instructors, who spend 12 weeks…
Are you Overtraining?
Overtraining is defined as: “when the body is subjected to excessive physical stress without adequate time for recovery.” Put simply, training is a stressor to your body (even if it’s fun) and your body needs time to recover. Too much…
What is Circus Pagan?
Circus Pagan is the intersection of neo-Pagan and circus arts. Why am I doing this? Over the years, as I have described the feeling I get when practicing my art, people repeatedly tell me it sounds like a zen experience.…