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Natasha Wang on The View
So I haven't seen a post about this yet so I thought I would do the honors. This is a video of Natasha Wang on The View. She did a beautiful performance and represented the pole community SO well. Enjoy 🙂
If the link doesn't work, you can just youtube it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0e4d6AEf9w
xoxoxo
StarLily
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It was a good segment, I thought. Too bad they didn't give any links, tho. 🙂 Thanks for posting this.
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It was a good segment, I thought. Too bad they didn't give any links, tho. 🙂 Thanks for posting this.
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I am so glad Natasha is really getting out there and doing all these shows. I heard some women at my work takling about this show. One lady said," Where did you see this pole stuff?" She said, "On the View!!!!! " Other lady, " Oh wow. On national t.v." "It is really getting bad these days." LOL!!!!! The other lady explained the performance and she got interested. Then they both turn to me. "Lee, don't you do that work out? " I was like yeah. "But I do not look like Natasha when doing it." LOL!
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I always love to see pole getting some positive main stream attention instead of the shows that sneak the "stripper" word in all over the segment for sensation! Does anyone know if Natasha's winning performance at USPDF is on YouTube? I have searched but can't find it.
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she did great, i'm loving the publicity for pole fitness!!
but why did she give sherry that spin to do?? thats difficult! lol. she should have showed her the fireman or something, or a roundabout
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While they didn't throw around the term "stripper" for sensation like some other shows do, I thought it was a little – off? – when they did mention it ("And you've never been a stripper – at all…" "Nooooooooooo…") because I couldn't help but thinking about the other talented women (Karol Helms comes to mind) who have been strippers and yet are also competitive and take the sport very seriously. It's just a shame because while pole dancing has been getting more national media attention lately, I feel like every show segment I've seen has had to make the distinction that no, this girl who is doing all of these amazing tricks on the pole for us is NOT IN ANY WAY affiliated with anything "taboo."
But I guess that's the only way people watching these shows will accept it right now? – it has to be PG…even though plenty of other forms of dance can be just as sensual and yet they don't come with a stigma…shame.
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She is amazing! But.. I didn't like how they were talking about stripping.. I am an exotic dancer and I do all my tricks when I am doing a set and I make damn good money doing it. I have been told that I make it look like an art and have had many women that come in to the club ask me for classes. While yes I take my clothes off for a living I am very clean and do not make it look trashy! Just upset me that's all!
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@danz16- I was thinking the same thing!! Full bracket cradle is hard for a newbie-newbie! I was thinking she might teach her a ballerina spin or simple firemen…lol
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Totally agree with you Holly. I'm not a stripper, but it's frustrating to me sometimes how there is so much emphasis on the 'OMG I'm not a stripper eww I just do this because it's a great workout' etc. etc. etc. Like it or not, there is a sexy side to pole–in fact, that's why I got into it in the first place. I love the sensuality of it, and yes, sometimes when I pole dance, some of my clothes come off, and I love that part of it too. Stripping can be an art just like pole, when done tastefully and well.
Ivy, that's awesome that you actually make money off pole tricks. I get on stripperweb sometimes, and the general idea I get from that forum is that money is not really made in doing pole tricks, so a lot of them don't bother with it unless someone specifically requests and pays for it.
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Very well said HollySatine
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The routine Natasha did was perfect though: showed incredible grace and beauty without being remotely "raunchy". Now, there's nothing wrong whatsoever with pole being raunchy, obviously, but people already know about that side of pole dance, and it would be nice if the general public realised it can also be remarkably similar to ballet, which is a thoroughly accepted form of dance.
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Oh yeah; I definitely agree that her routine was beautiful and that there's nothing wrong with showing people that pole can be similar to ballet–in fact, I think you have to kind of know your audience and anticipate how they'll react before you bust out a raunchy routine, i.e. you wouldn't break out the stripper heels and the heavy grinding for your bible study group. It just kind of bugs me when people act like pole dancing being even remotely associated with stripping and clubs is offensive somehow. Let's face it; a lot of the moves we do are based off ones that were born in the clubs. I guess I just wish there didn't have to be such division–as in pole dancing takes an incredible amount of skill, strength and flexibility, but the sexy side of it is part of the fun and those sexy aspects started in clubs. Not to mention, there are fantastic pro dancers who started off as exotic dancers.
I know people are just trying to legitimize it, but I don't think it's necessary for the attitude some polers adopt toward strippers. (BTW, I'm not accusing anyone here of having that attitude, I'm just speaking in general.)
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Oh yes, you're absolutely right of course. I guess what it'd be really nice if we could "educate" people that:
1) Pole dancing isn't stripping, it doesn't have to be "sexy".
2) However, there's nothing wrong with it being sexy (or part of stripping), when it is!
I guess the polers with the "anti-stripper" attitude are just trying to be respected as athletes, and sometimes it's easier to be taken seriously if you outwardly agree with the masses on the totally set views like "strippers are bad", and push an easier agenda like "ok, but pole isn't stripping".
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Definitely agree–we should be able to have both. The polers who put in purely athletic, gymnastic routines, and those who like to sauce it up a little. And we do, the problem is the two sides can't always live in harmony, unfortunately. I've seen some nasty comments on Alethea Austin's videos along the lines of how unclassy/slutty she is and how she's undoing everything the pole community has strived for along the lines of making people see it as something beyond just stripping. And I think that's unfair, because, aside from being sexy, Alethea is an incredibly strong, fluid dancer, and I don't see why she should be crapped on just because she likes to do her thing in 7 inch heels.
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@jessesgirl96 – there aren't any USPD Comp videos on youtube because they're very strict about recording during the show. i was at the comp and there were security guards strictly enforcing the no recording rule with bright ass flashlights lol…
and i agree. we should be able to have both. i'm a dancer and i pole dance. i see those things as two separate entities. sure, i do pole work at work but not cause it makes me all that much money. i do it cause i like to perform and show off my moves. i take pole lessons and pole for fun. i would be poling even if i didn't dance at a club. there's nothing wrong with dancing sexy anyway. many contempory dance and aerial arts routines are sexy but they don't get criticized because they don't show up in strip clubs. it's an art, even if it is sexual. i hate the animosoty ppl have towards dancers in general. it's just a job and it's not like prostitution.
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