We are sitting down to talk to our new instructors for PoleCon 2026! Learn more…
Interview with New PoleCon Instructor: Sunshine Hurricane
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?
At PoleCon 2026, I’ll be teaching a workshop through Xscape Limitations, which is an adaptive pole movement and education approach I created to make pole more accessible and more honest about the bodies that actually show up to it.This workshop is about exploring pole in ways that work for your body. That can include physical limitations, chronic illness, mobility aids, or simply not fitting into what traditional pole spaces are built around. We’ll move through foundational pole concepts and talk about how to adapt them in real, usable ways—whether you’re dancing for yourself or teaching others.
Xscape Limitations isn’t about changing pole. It’s about expanding it.
2. Is there something that defines your style of teaching or your content that is unique to you?
Xscape Limitations comes from lived experience. It wasn’t created from theory or checklists—it came from navigating pole with limitations and realizing how much of the industry wasn’t built with that reality in mind.
What defines my teaching is that I don’t ask people to force their bodies into a mold. I teach people how to meet their bodies where they are and still experience strength, confidence, and joy in pole. The focus is always on possibility, creativity, and finding multiple ways into movement instead of one “right” way.
This work is about reminding people that pole belongs to more than just one type of body.
3. What is the one thing you want your students to leave with after taking your workshop?
I want people to leave knowing that their body is not a limitation—it’s information.
Whether someone is a dancer, an instructor, or both, I want them to walk away feeling more confident in their ability to adapt, explore, and advocate for themselves or their students. Xscape Limitations is about shifting the mindset from “I can’t do this” to “I can do this differently.”
If someone leaves feeling seen and capable, that’s everything to me.
Whether someone is a dancer, an instructor, or both, I want them to walk away feeling more confident in their ability to adapt, explore, and advocate for themselves or their students. Xscape Limitations is about shifting the mindset from “I can’t do this” to “I can do this differently.”
If someone leaves feeling seen and capable, that’s everything to me.
4. What are you most excited about for PoleCon 2026?
I’m most excited about being in a space where these conversations are happening more openly. PoleCon brings together so many different experiences, bodies, and stories, and that makes it the perfect place for Xscape Limitations to exist.
I’m really looking forward to meeting people who may be encountering adaptive pole for the first time, as well as instructors who are ready to expand how they teach. Being able to connect in person, move together, and talk honestly about access and representation means a lot to me.
I’m really looking forward to meeting people who may be encountering adaptive pole for the first time, as well as instructors who are ready to expand how they teach. Being able to connect in person, move together, and talk honestly about access and representation means a lot to me.
5. Anything else you want to share with PoleCon attendees?
If you’ve ever felt like pole wasn’t made for you, I want you to know you’re not alone—and you’re not the problem. There are so many dancers navigating limitations who simply haven’t been shown that there are other ways into movement.
And for instructors, I want to say this too: wanting to support your students but feeling unsure how to do that doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. A lot of us were never taught how to adapt pole in meaningful ways, and that gap in knowledge is real.
Xscape Limitations exists for both of those experiences. It’s about giving dancers permission to move differently and giving instructors tools, language, and confidence so they can better support the students in front of them.
I’ll be at my table throughout the weekend, and I’d love to connect—whether you want to talk, ask questions, or learn more about future Xscape Limitations classes and training opportunities. There is space for all of us here.
And for instructors, I want to say this too: wanting to support your students but feeling unsure how to do that doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. A lot of us were never taught how to adapt pole in meaningful ways, and that gap in knowledge is real.
Xscape Limitations exists for both of those experiences. It’s about giving dancers permission to move differently and giving instructors tools, language, and confidence so they can better support the students in front of them.
I’ll be at my table throughout the weekend, and I’d love to connect—whether you want to talk, ask questions, or learn more about future Xscape Limitations classes and training opportunities. There is space for all of us here.
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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