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Opinions!!!
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I thought it was a beautiful performance. My boyfriend would be exactly the same though, they just need a bit of time to come round to the idea that this is art and not "stripperish"
All you can do is continue with your love of pole and he will eventually understand this is what you love and not what you do for mens attention!!!
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Its not stripperish, because of the siple fact, that you are not stripping 🙂 Thats the technical stuff. The feel of your style is sexy and sensual, but I think your husband, maybe confusing your style with stripperish, but really its sexy poledancing. Maybe he doesnt know the many different styles there is in poledancing. Just a few is sexy, ballet and trickster. I think you are a sexy poledancer, because you pay alot of attetion to the flow, slow movements and such, whereas a trickster would be more of showing moves after another, paying most attention to strenght and ballerina style is all about lines. I love your sexy poledance style, and I really dont see the stripper. Even if there was a stripper aspect, I say enjoy it. Strippers are HAWT!
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I actually am adding your vid to my faves because I love it so much. That's your level one graduation? Seriously? You are so awesome for someone at a beginner level; you have a keen sense for dance and timing and lines and style that is more consistent with someone who has been dancing for a few years at least. I'm really impressed with what you put together. That video is absolutely great.
And you know what? It's sexy as hell. No, it's not stripperish. It's sexy pole style, clean simple and strong. Which is awesome, completely acceptable, totally within your right, and not in any way threatening or disrespectful to your husband who needs to control his jealousy and put down the crazy pants crack pipe.
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I also like it a lot!
Doing awesome tricks is one thing, but for me the sexy and sensual dancing and floorwork is also a big part of poledancing!
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What a beautiful performance! Your movement is incredibly polished for someone whos only finishing level one. And you have great toe point!!!!
I'm not a stripper but I've certainly watched enough strippers dancing and I've seen some that trick out like they are in the Pole Olympics and others that use the pole to hold themselves up so that they don't fall off their 8 inch heels!
Your movement is very sensual, even the way you walk…and I think it is lovely! Don't worry about it hurting your chances in a competition…as long as you don't do stripper moves like too much booty clapping, bouncing Cl*ts and queefing dollar bills.. Look at the criteria for the comp and consider the judges and their styles. Talk to the organizer and find out what types of styles have done well or not done well or if she sees a problem with your style. Every comp is different.
Even with eventuyally more advanced skills your movement would not work well in the IPSF (pre-Olympic) comp but with more advanced skills would do just fine in many other comps like USPDF and North American Pole Dance Championships.
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Very lovely! It was sensual, not sexual which I think is the difference. Stripper dancing is more about booty popping and crotch waving. You have good lines and a fluidity to the way you move.
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I think when it comes to the pole any move that is considered sexy will be thought of as "stripperish" by someone. Sometimes just being on a pole is all it takes. If I like what I'm doing call me what you want!
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Well, I’ll be honest and say that I was a little disappointed. Based on your description, I expected to see a lot of crotch-grabbing, clothes being removed and touching all over.
Instead, I saw someone that moved slowly with grace and appeared to be confident in her dancing and movements. I thought you did a great job. Perhaps showing your husband a video of Alethea (or someone else that has a similar style) will help him understand?
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First of all I think it was a beautiful dance and you should be very proud of it! As others said, you had lots of grace and poise in your moves. I found the floorwork to be sexy and sensual, but not trashy (I think there is a difference between the two. I think Alethea does a brilliant job of being super hot without crossing the line.)
Your husband may be saying it was a bit "stripperish" because he didn't know what else to say. Unless you talk about pole dance with him a lot, he may not know what to look for… toe points, execution of tricks, flow, etc. I have danced for my husband before and his comments typically focus primarily on how sexy the movements were. He doesn't care about how extended my leg was in a spin, or how clean my invert was. He cares that his scantily clad wife is dancing for him, and what else is there to say? 🙂
Because the tricks in your routine were beginner level and there was a lot of floorwork, It also looked a bit more like how a stripper might freestyle in a club. Minus the stuff Mary Ellyn and capfeb described, lol. Most strippers aren't champion level pole dancers. Your routine wasn't a highly choreographed and tightly executed routine with handsprings, fonjis and crazy drops – instead it relied on moves that a greater number of people (including strippers) can do. So it will look similar.
I have been to plenty of strip clubs (it's how I got interested in pole, honestly) and the best dancers aren't always the ones getting the most attention. A lot of times it's the girls touching themselves and getting raunchy. But it depends on the club and the type of crowd it has on a given night. I went to a club in Vegas with the hubby and the girls there were outstanding tricksters. Now if I ever go to a strip club, I usually end up chatting with the dancers and talking pole tricks! And of course I will tip someone if she does something cool!)
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Your routine was beautiful and controlled. It is obvious you are talented because you made it look effortless as well as graceful. I have to agree with your husband's opinion that it was stripper-ish. Everything you did in your routine was what i've seen strippers do (and i did as well when i was a stripper). Of course, it was not stripping, but in my opinion, it was stripper-ish. Writhing on the back, pulling at your shorts, the sensual walking, touching your body, caressing the inner thigh, etc- even though you did these things conservatively or modestly, basically strippers do that as well. Strippers are supposed to look sensual (lol… they try), so if your dance style is sensual, it could be seen as stripper-like.
Are you trying to avoid looking like a stripper?
In my opinion, pole dancers that do not have a stripper-ish style would be Pantera, Oona, and Chumpchkin, Blondebird. There are many many others, but those 4 come to mind.
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Mary Ellyn, I about choked on my water when I read that! Loved your take on stripper moves!!
Portabeleninja, I totally agree on the level of the video and that as I progress it will look more towards the competative side than the common dancer side.
I think in a way he coudn;t find the proper wording and used stripperish to explain how he thought it looked. He supports the pole dancing/fitness and encourages me to do amatuer competitions, so I know it is not a jealous theme, just lack of wording. As he further described what he expected, I think he thought that I was learning more difficult moves like the ones I show him in videos. Most of those are championships where they are doing combos and awesome strength moves. I think like with most people, he didn't realize that it takes time to do such moves and you cannot just jump into it.
Poledanceromance, thanks! I worked on that routine for 3 weeks and done the videos on here too. I also have my own pole at home, so I practice a lot. I love dancing and can actually pole dance better than I can out in a club!
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it was more cute than stripperish! great routine
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If anything at all he may have thought the floor work was "extra sexy" or something, I'm not sure. I wouldn't personally think it was stripperish at all. It was marvelous though! Sometimes our men need to take a minute to embrace their woman's sensuality through dance because they get really REALLY good at it. That just means you are workin' it! 😉 😉
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Agreed: very fluid for a beginner!
Hopefully he can appreciate your talent of grace & strength; cos if thesis your beginning we are all in for a treat watching you progress!!
Hopefully you are more proud & forgiving in his lack for better words.
Our warm ups are very similar to what you did; it takes strength for it to be fluidity as you keep going on. Pole is (for me) an outlet to express myself (as a woman, sexual, sensual, emotional, physical being) I try to not get discouraged when I loosen boundaries, or forget others are present. Pole is an art form too! Interpretation is subjective -
By the way..Karol can teach you how to queef a dollar bill…it's a trick, you don't really queef. At least SHE doesn't! LOL….maybe the stripper that CapFeb mentioned does! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif
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