Defining fitness While fit-ness can be defined in many individual ways, a more modern understanding of fitness looks at this concept across an interconnected web of elements that are relevant to your life and/or training. Some things to consider as…
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.…
Maybe you read my other blog post that was a play-by-play (with emotions!) about my very first audition experience. Well, the selection committee got back to me very expeditiously to tell me they decided to go in a different direction.…
We held the fifth annual Virtual PoleCon just this past Saturday October 26, 2024, to a small but enthusiastic, virtual crowd from all over the world including New Zealand and Europe as well as over the US! This event was…
“You could take pole dancing lessons,” he suggested with a leer. I had recently lost weight and acquired a boyfriend after a really tough year, and I’d been dithering about joining a gym or something similar. As it happened, I…
Tonight, I had my very first audition for a performing arts company. I have some thoughts and feelings about this and instead of keeping it locked away in my Artist Pages journal, I decided on the ride home to share…
I used to travel all around the world (ah, pre-pandemic life!) for my old “day job” and at first, it used to put a huge kink in my poling and conditioning. While it’s hard to pack your pole with you…
This post, originally written and published in 2015, referenced an article written in 2014 about the “Rise of Pole Comedy.” 10 years later, I’m updating the content and resharing since Pole Comedy is DEFINITELY here to stay! What is pole…
Only performers and competitors truly understand the high one gets from coming off stage after a good run. As a competitor I usually work on the same routine for months, even a year putting in hours of training and dumpsters…
The Rut As artists and performers, sometimes we can feel really stuck and creatively burned out. I know I've been there before, especially when I was working long hours at a job I didn't enjoy with a lot of people…