Each type has a level of progression.
Pole dance and pole sport are both acrobatics on the vertical pole. Pole dance often emphasizes performance, choreography, and artistic expression and is more musical. Dancers combine dance styles, acrobatics, and storytelling in their routines. Pole sport is more structured, with an emphasis on athleticism and technical skill, as, for example, gymnastics. To maximize grip on the pole, participants wear minimal clothing, such as tops and shorts, allowing skin to stick to the pole, while fabric slips.
Pole Heels is a dance with a pole. The choreography may include tricks and acrobatic elements, but it is primarily a dance and choreography, where musicality and consistency of movements are important. A unique feature of this style is dancing shoes on high heels with a platform, which also makes the performance of many acrobatic elements possible. It is essential to wear kneepads for protection. As for attire, there is flexibility in choice; participants may opt for shorts, leggings, culottes, tops, shirts.
Low Flow is moving around the pole, staying on the ground and avoiding climbing and tricking on the top part of the pole. Dancers learn how to move with elegance grace and fluidity. The goal is to dance smoothly, moving from one transition to another with minimal grip changes and continuous motion.
It is a style that emerged on the basis of strip plastics with elements of many other dance trends. Most of the elements are performed in the parterre on the floor and requires exceptional mastery of the body. Technicality and musicality are the distinctive features: all the movements are arranged to beats and /or vocals.
High heels is a style of dance that is performed in high heels. It combines the movements of popular modern trends and is characterized by sharp, precise movements.
It is a unique, seductive dance that mesmerizes with movements and body plasticity, the hallmark of which is a unique technique of working the hips and abdomen.
This class has an emphasis on our dynamic relation to the floor and how this can form the basis of movement. We work on specific principles such as softening into the floor, dynamics of pushing and falling, and how to transition our weight and find availability in the body. Through these we explore different levels, up and down, finding momentum and some acrobatic elements.
A dance class that explores all kinds of waves and twists. You will learn waving techniques with an emphasis on isolation, smooth transitions and precise control, as well as discover the natural waves of your body and appreciate how each body moves in its own unique way.
A modern, dynamic, expressive and sensual dance characterized by fluid movements combined with acrobatics on the floor and creative improvisation. The classes focus on both technical exercises and choreography.
Sometimes the sexiest dances take place in the bedroom. Sometimes it’s dripping with sweat on the club dance-floor. Sometimes we are on stage and sometimes we are all alone late at night rehearsing in the studio. How do we find this inner sense of juiciness and move like we were born to move. This class focuses on sensation, instant composition and improvisation to develop a way of dancing that feels at home everywhere.
Drawing from Hatha, Vinyasa & Tantra yoga practices this sticky-sweet yoga flow class will have you feeling open, joyful and sexy. The class consists of sequences for developing strength, flexibility on sensation and body-awareness.
Sensual Jazz combines femininity, elegance and sensuality with the pulsating sounds of jazz. In this course, you will learn to express yourself confidently through dance by practicing technique, improvisation and choreography.
This class is open to all levels, with modifications available for both beginners and advanced participants. It focuses on strength training and stretching the entire body. The session includes wide-amplitude strength exercises to build muscle and enhance mobility, along with active and passive isolation exercises to improve flexibility. Regular attendance will help you achieve floor splits, aerial splits, shoulder bridges, needlescales, and chest stands.
The class explores such elements as shoulder and handstands, rolls, tumbles and other elements of dance acrobatics.
Knee-pads and a closed-shoulder T-shirt are compulsory! All new elements are learnt in socks, you can do it in dance shoes afterwards if you wish.
This class is for open level movers who wish to navigate through movement research proposals, explorative insights and performative states with others in space. We will look at movement as a living, changing force that helps us direct our attention inward to ourselves and to our surroundings. This will help to create new ideas and connections. We will be working with qualities such as yielding, pushing, reaching, and pulling to move through space, while being guided by our senses, vision, touch, imagination. We will transfer these qualities into improvisational tasks directed towards building relationships between us and the space in real time, in couple or group dynamics.
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