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The pole dancing vaults into a new role
Wearing a gauzy blue two-piece costume that resembles a circus acrobat’s uniform, Laura Martin climbs up an 11-foot steel pole in a move popularly called the “Caterpillar Crawl.”
Aggressive and athletic yet fluid and hyper-flexible, she proceeds to blaze through a pole-dancing routine of inverted suspensions, spins and slides.
Hoots and whistles from the female-dominated crowd compete with the live music provided by the rock band Avowed. One woman screams to a friend, “It’s just like trapeze!”
Martin, a former exotic dancer, appreciates the comparison of what she does to something other than adult entertainment.
“I want to see pole dancing get away from the stripper connotation,” says the 30-year-old San Diego-based performer and personal fitness instructor. “I want people to see it’s like any other dance form.”
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Heather Graham, Pole Dance Advocate
Dancers take pole position on BGT
The four athletic dancers from Stoke-on-Trent assisted gold-toothed rapper DJ Talent, watched by more than 14 million viewers, in the semi-final of the TV talent show.
Dressed in gold bikinis, the girls performed a range of tricks on the poles, while DJ Talent shouted out, “I say Britain, you say talent”.
Despite being championed by former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, the bling-king DJ did not make the cut for the show’s final on Saturday night.
DJ Talent’s pole dancers – instructor Faye Chatterley, who runs Pole Fit, based in Longton, her students Sasha Kavaleva and Becca Edwards, and fellow instructor Deb Riley, of Pole Queens, also based at Longton – enjoyed their big moment.
Faye, aged 31, of Fenton, said: “Through people I know in the pole industry we were asked to come along to auditions. Then we found out we would be supporting DJ Talent.
Diary: Abi’s naked ambition
GLAMOUR girl Abi Titmus is turning her back on the image that found her fame – in a quest to be taken seriously as an actress.
The former nurse was regularly featured in lads’ mags in saucy poses and she became known as a girl who, ahem, certainly dressed down for the cameras.
Yet the newly clean-cut Abi says those days are far behind her.
However, her new theatre role is a little risqué – she plays a pole dancing teacher in comedy The Naked Truth.
But Abi is quick to add there’s no actual nudity in the play, heading to Manchester’s Opera House next week, co-starring Bury’s Lisa Riley and actress Emily Aston.
She tells me she’s spent months rehearsing: “I asked the director how good I needed to be at pole-dancing for this part, and he just looked at me and said: `extraordinary’.
“I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I threw myself into it and spent three months practising, before rehearsals for the play even started. It’s like an athletic sport it’s so tricky, but people just think of it with connotations of being in seedy clubs.
“I thought people might jump to conclusions with me pole dancing, so I was very aware that I needed to make it look as beautiful and graceful as possible.
Six pole dancing queens on stage
A POLE dancing class is the setting that brings six very different women together in a play that is coming to Basingstoke and which features an all-star cast.
The Naked Truth is a girl’s night out coming to The Haymarket next week. It stars Trudie Goodwin – better known to many as June Ackland on ITV’s The Bill – who is thrilled to be back on stage.
“I was last on the stage 12 years ago so it was quite scary getting back up there,” she said.
“I did theatre for ten years before I went into television, but you wonder if you can do still do it. I’m really enjoying it.”
Her co-stars include Lisa Riley – Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale – Julie Buckfield, from Hollyoaks, Abi Titmuss and Emily Aston and Lorraine Hodgson, who both have numerous credits on series’ such as The Bill, EastEnders, Holby City and Heartbeat.
Stage star’s home town pole dance date
Lorraine Hodgson, 38, will tread the boards at Preston’s Charter Theatre alongside ex-Emmerdale star Lisa Riley, who played Mandy Dingle, and lads’ mag favourite Abi Titmuss in The Naked Truth, a comedy about six unlikely women learning to pole-dance in a village hall.
Former Wellfield High School pupil Lorraine said she was looking forward to bringing the play to Preston – but a little worried about pole-dancing in front of her mum, Mary!
Lorraine said: “I’m always more nervous when my family come to watch.
“We had a six-week course of pole-dancing lessons in January which was hard work.
May Pole: Pole Fetish 2009 brings local pole dancers to a dance off
Years of channel surfing have taken me to ESPN to see every kind of fitness and body building competition, my favorite being the aerobics choreography. But I have never had the luxury of watching a pole dance competition outside of YouTube.
It’s no surprise that pole dancers have competitions, but it is a surprise that in Utah we are having our own this weekend. Sexy twirls and tricks that showcase the strength of these ladies who’s skills range from beginners to advanced.
Pole Fetish 2009 has been in the news for several months as Davis County Commissioner Bret Millburn has resisted this dance pole of the devil, but with strict rules forbidding the dancers to sexually arouse the audience, the show will go on.
The battle of the stripper pole kit dancing dancers takes place on Saturday, May 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Davis Conference Center, 800 Heritage Park Blvd. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $50 for VIP seating. For more information call 801-678-0225.
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Britney Spears demands stripper pole
The Britney Spears has requested a stripper pole be installed in her hotel room.‘Toxic’ singer – who is a huge fan of pole dancing as it helps maintain her new slender figure – made the unusual request to staff at London’s Dorchester Hotel, where she will be staying when she performs at the city’s O2 arena in June as part of the UK leg of her ‘Circus’ tour.
A source said: “Britney loves pole dancing, it is her new favourite work out. She gets the toning she needs without having to hit the gym and wants to do it in the privacy of her own hotel room.
“Keeping fit on tour is very important as her show involves lots of rigorous dance routines, so Britney likes to do her pole dancing workout first thing in the morning.”
The mother-of-two has also requested the hotel provide a chef from restaurant chain Nando’s to be on hand to cook her spicy chicken whenever she feels like it.
Britney’s request comes just days after Russell Brand asked for a private pole.
The British comic star – who once gave Britney sex tips – is set to stay at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino when shooting starts on movie ‘Get Him to the Greek’ in Las Vegas.
Russell has requested the famous Apex suite, known as the “ultimate bachelor pad”, and has its own stripper pole.
Celebrity Stripper pole
Paris Hilton parties with her own Portable stripper pole, Kate Hudson had one installed in her bathroom. The hot new Hollywood trend of lately is to have your very own portable pole? Paris has one in her house and she used it often during her birthday bash over the weekend. Britney Spears’ latest Circus Tour featured a not so child friendly Stripper pole.