“Curiosity brought me in, confidence and community kept me,” explained an instructor at the Secret who uses the stage name Kam Poles. When most people think of pole dance, their first thought ...

Áine Inkk, who has been teaching pole dance for the last 16 years, started the studio in 2016. Inkk came up with the name for Polemic Dance Studio after recognizing the controversy both within and ...

The Bling is a “high-energy” pole dancing fitness studio, not a “strip club in a strip mall,” although some people had to be convinced, said owner Taylor Franklin, 32. The business opened ...

“There were not a lot of Black male pole dancers before me,” he said over lunch in Hollywood. “I can name them on my hand, barely. It was extremely [challenging] for me to navigate into this ...

A pole-dancing school in Atlanta is offering a "Mommy ... and there are many new names on the sign-up sheet. "We're not going to stop doing this," Harris says. "We actually have a kids-only ...

“Pole dancing grew from the labor of primarily POC ... I want the pole industry to be decolonized,” said Davis (who goes by the stage name Cutie Whippingham) on her website.