“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 ...

“Pole dancers are masochists,” Mr. Kyle said ... from punk-rock defiance to flowing lyricism. “Pole names” like Candy, Magnetic, Apocalyssa and Serpentia reflected the array of personas.

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 ...

"We won the sex war," he says, "after women started doing pole dancing for exercise.” "Traditionally, portrayals of dancers are either women who are drug-addicted, or who obviously have major daddy ...

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 is now serious talk of making pole dance an Olympic sport, so they’ll probably change the name to para-pole," she said. "As for me the name doesn’t matter at all. The chance to ...

“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 ...

It's Friday afternoon, and 12 people are gathered in a pole dancing class in Washington, D.C. They start warming up in front of a wall of mirrors, music at full blast. At first, it looks like any ...