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Pole dancing has been a wonderous gift to me. A beautiful art that I have deep respect for. Although this sentiment will not be too popular with many people, it has been a most satisfying journey for me.
Loosely I would categorise the dynamics of pole dancing into three components.
1- Pole Styling
It is a term that I coined for my students to understand the various aspect of pole dancing. It means moving around a pole, dancing with a pole without having to perform strenuous tricks or even be off ground and still be graceful and sexy around a pole.
2- Pole Tricks (Stunts)
It is the fanciful stuff that you do to a pole. Thats where the fun begins where some dancers. And thats where the terror starts for others. Pole tricks refers to swings, slides, climbs and inverts. Some of the more advanced tricks are practically gymnastics in nature and demand very strong limbs and abdominal muscles to be executed well.
3. Pole Safety
A often neglected component of pole dancing will be pole safety. In our anxiety to learn the advanced tricks, we tend to overlook the safety factor. However, falling off a pole especially when you are practising alone can have serious consequences.
In view of its importance, here are some simple pointers:
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A few years ago, Brook Busey-Hunt was typing copy at a Minneapolis advertising agency and walked by the Skyway Lounge, a skeevy strip bar where desiccated women grind out a living a dollar at a time. Good Catholic girl that she was, Ms. Busey-Hunt saw an ad for amateur night and had a naughty epiphany. And the rest is, well, a stage name, a blog, a book and a screen writing career.
Now named Diablo Cody, she wrote a screenplay that became “Juno,” a film directed by Jason Reitman set for release by Fox Searchlight on Wednesday. The story of a maniacally verbal 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant and decides to give the baby to a childless couple, “Juno” is on most every short list for an Oscar for original screenplay.
Sitting recently at the Rainbow, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles draped in rock history, Ms. Cody, 29, did not pretend that her life was anything other than a fairy tale, albeit one where the role of the glass slippers is played by a pair of stripper’s stilettos.
“You make this really unexpected, half-cocked decision and all of a sudden it creates this weird energy that turns into something else,” she said during lunch. A self-described geek who had led a very insular life, she said that getting naked for strangers was her version of self-improvement, a way of transgressing her upbringing and opening up other doors. Unlike many strippers who resemble balloon smugglers with very large hair, Ms. Cody is a crisscross of tattoos and post-punk fashion, sort of Suicide Girl meets Riot Grrrl.
Those trips down dimly lighted runways, followed by a short stint as a phone-sex worker — “You have to convince them that your parents don’t know you are on the phone and that you are just aching to get with your physics teacher” — became an unmentionable titled blog. Mason Novick, a talent manager from Benderspink, a Los Angeles agency, came across the blog and eventually put her in touch with a New York literary agent, who sold “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper,” which was published in 2005. Mr. Novick suggested she give screen writing a crack, and she bought a copy of the “Ghost World” screenplay so she could correctly format what became “Juno.”
The movie has all the hallmarks of an art-house film — endlessly quirky dialogue with a soundtrack to match — but contains an old-fashioned moral center. At a time when many films about teenagers are a mess of machinations and hookups, “Juno” ends in a very tender hug.
Ellen Page, the young Canadian actress who starred in “Hard Candy,” plays Juno, a teenager who can’t get through a sentence without coining a metaphor. Juno becomes pregnant after a single sexual experiment born of ennui and friendship, and proceeds to waddle her increasing heft through the rest of the film while using her mouth as a plaything and weapon.
In one instance she turns it on Michael Cera (from “Superbad”), who plays her so-geeky-he’s-sweet boyfriend. When she finds out he is going to the prom with a girl he admits “smells like soup,” she is livid and trapped. “I am wearing a fat suit I can’t take off. I am a planet,” Juno says, a huge belly protruding under her vintage T-shirt.
Apart from the pregnancy, the character is heavily autobiographical, with her thrift-store fashions and kitschy taste; Ms. Cody’s beloved hamburger phone gets a cameo. And like Juno, Ms. Cody has an ability to capture the human transaction between genders and generations. In Ms. Cody’s case, she understands the nature of the compact between the demanding lout with a dollar in his hand and his objectified temporary fantasy. Stripping, she wrote in her memoir, required her to “bounce like the phantom cheerleader in the vault of every man’s memory.”
Ms. Cody smiles plenty, but she is all done preening for the benefit of others. She now prefers creating characters on the page as opposed to the stage. Especially after her first script fell into such eager, talented hands.
Her new life may not always be so sweet, but the work is plentiful. Her future includes another book; a pilot for a series about a woman with multiple personalities called “The United States of Tara,” which was conceived by Steven Spielberg for Showtime; and several more features. (The Hollywood writers’ strike, however, has put a temporary hold on her movie and television work.)
“I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating,” she said, her hand absently stroking a Hello Kitty necklace. (“Tarina Tarantino. I bought it for $75 at a trashy mall in the Valley. I bought $220 jeans that same day and my cheeks burned with shame.”)
“I plan on hanging on to my soul, but I am not precious about writing,” she added. “I am here to work and make money.”
Mr. Reitman said Ms. Cody would do just fine in Hollywood.
“Just look at the name she chose for herself,” he said. “Yes, this is a fairy tale, but she is going to jump on every opportunity that comes her way. Her writing is both original and real, which is very rare in Hollywood.”
The blow back from such immediate success did not take long to materialize, including a suggestion by Rob Nelson, a hometown film critic who once edited her newspaper work, that she is a self-conjured confection. “It’s as if the kid wrote her own Wikipedia entry before living it,” he wrote in The Rake, a Minneapolis monthly.
While Ms. Cody said she was enjoying the success of “Juno,” the criticism can sting. “Stripping toughened my hide,” she said, “but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.”
Her hair may be a riot of colors — red is usually featured, but it can change almost depending on her mood — and she may have once made a living letting it fall in the faces of her lap-dance clients. But Ms. Cody has mastered the fan dancer’s art of showing much and revealing little.
“I’m totally a person who hides in plain sight,” she said. “I think there’s a lot written about me being totally candid and outrageous, when I’m actually pretty cagey.”
Part of the mystique came from an appearance promoting her book on “Late Show With David Letterman,” during which she referred to herself as the “naked Margaret Mead.” She went on to assert, “Everything is prostitution in a way.”
As with her history as a do-me feminist, she makes no apologies for what she said. “I actually think everything is prostitution. We’re kind of constantly bartering with our dignity in life,” she wrote in an e-mail message after the lunch, adding that she always thought it was hilarious when strippers would draw the line at certain activities. “Same goes for people’s ideas, talents, emotions, etc. There’s a price on everything.”
Michael Tortorello, who edited her when she brought her blog and writing to City Pages, an alternative paper in Minneapolis, senses a mixture of honesty and artifice in her transformation from Brook to Diablo.
“My impression is that once she started blogging and writing, it was if somebody popped a cork on a Champagne bottle and it has not stopped overflowing since,” Mr. Tortorello said. “She is a sweet and honest person, but there is also a mythology, a kind of self-invention by someone who grew up in suburban Chicago.”
Ms. Cody, who just moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Jonny, a graphic designer, has ambitions beyond writing. She said she would like to direct at some point, partly because she loathes the way women are portrayed in most contemporary films.
“The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating,” she said. “There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trip and falls, the adorable klutz.”
Ms. Cody, who said she was less than graceful when she first went to work as a stripper, has her boots pretty firmly planted on the ineffable terrain of Hollywood.
“Obviously this is a very image-conscious industry, and I have mine to contend with,” she said. “I answer a lot of questions in meetings here other people probably aren’t asked.
“I show a little leg. But of course I am speaking metaphorically.”
Source - David Carr
The New York Time Movies
Joy says - The review totally intrigues me. What a refreshing angle! I can’t wait to watch the movie! 
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Now, before you think I hate Britney Spears, let me tell you upfront how much I adore her. She is bloody hot and sexy as hell. But still, I find her latest Gimme More video leaves so much to be desired. The song however is raunchy and does make me wanna do things to my pole. *ha*
First of all, the video was blur through and through. I’m not sure if it’s because that particular video in Youtube was of inferior quality. There were plenty of repetitive moves. *Yawn* Her hands placement were all wrong for a pole video.
You cannot possibly use your left hand all the time when you are filming a pole shoot standing on the left side of the pole. And show off your armpit. And block your own beautiful face. Duh?
The video comes across as too free and easy. It seems to me there isn’t any choreographed or knocked out moves of any kind. It was a lot of hovering around the pole like a lost and wandering soul. Most of the video was shot in one angle. I pray to God it was not from a fixed tripod!
Many a times the face is partially cut off and you wonder what happened to her forehead. It just doesn’t make any video sense at all. By the time the video is over, your mind just go “huh? That’s it?!” Definitely not what we expect from the one and only Britney Spears.
The black rocker babe outfit was cool by me. And I, for one, thinks she has an awesome body and a gorgeous butt. However, it was tarnished by her *gasp* did you see that protruded tummy?! Overall, a hideous video by Miss “I’m A Slave For You” standards.
What happened to the sizzling seductress that had everyone, including me for the record, eating out of her hands? Yes the poor girl is traumatized with her marital and children custody issues. But hey, Britney, you are dearly missed and please, Hit Me Baby One More Time!
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When I was in Hong Kong, I went to Lan Kwan Fong to catch some of the action. There was this gay club that I remembered visiting last year. On the spur of the moment, I decided that would be a really great place to party!
However, I was saddened by the sight that greeted me. It was like a dead town! Not much action, nobody is dancing, it was heartbreaking! Since we were already there, I decided to take matters into my own hands. No entertainment? No problem, we will create our entertainment!
So I told my friends, I will entertain them with pole dancing provided they would tip me. Haha! It was really funny. I was seriously fooling around the poles. The whole club was watching me. I didn’t care. It was a pain though trying to juggle my footwork since it was not firm ground that the poles were attached on.
Suddenly, a guy’s arms grabbed me from behind and I realized that a guy has started to pole dance with me. I instinctively know he is a dancer (it takes one to know one lah) from the firm way that he was holding me and the confidence vibe I got from him.
So we rocked it! As quickly as he came, he disappeared without any warning. Then came my sweet girlfriend from Thailand. She was happily dancing with me. I guess pole dancing is a good reminder of home for her.
And of course, I got my tips. My real motive was really to earn enough cab fare to go home at the end of the day. NOT! haha
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My Love Challenge. Ah… Makes me smile. The most challenging part of Way Back Into Love (WBIL)# indeed. And because these challenges are ideas and concepts that can be hard to digest, it was difficult for me (yes, even me) to embrace it initially. Because the automatic first reactions in the head were …
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Learning how to do such sexy dance items must have been quite a bumpy ride for the girls. They do not have much of a dance background, hence it will be a challenge to do exotic dance for a competition especially pole dancing!
Well, whatever the case is, the ladies are indeed hard at work to give their best to you on that big day. The first session was a little bewildering because they are still trying to come to terms with performing such items.
Subsequent sessions were very fruitful because they have gotten used to the routine and it is a matter of cleaning up their act and eliminating their small distracting mannerisms. I got stricter as time goes by.
Once they are on stage, they will be truly on their own. They are better off learning it the hard way now then to freeze on stage or make mistakes and being unable to recover from it. That would be a performer’s worst nightmare. Trust me…
Everyone had fun and found out a little more about themselves and their own capabilities through this event. I myself was pleasantly surprised at how fast I came up with the choreography because of the tight timeline. It is good that the production unit is pleased with it because I definitely am!
Always a pleasant to be satisfied with your own work although that is no excuse for not having continuous improvement. Rachelle and Shi Qian deserves your fullest support for their hard work. So make sure you are there for the show and give them your fullest encouragement.
Knock them dead ladies!
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Eleanor Roosevelt once said, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. How easy it is to forget this simple but profound truth. Often, we simply give our power away because we have been conditioned to do so. Especially if you belong to the female species.
There is an unspoken understanding going on. That your parents call the shots before your husband comes along. After which, he sits on the throne of your life. Men is always more …
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SensUal Greetings from SensUal Joy! :o)
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