Tedx Talk, Burlesque Dancer

33barbwire started this discussion · 1/30/2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME-c0l8oTkY This is a video I referred to in a comment once and meant to share it. Here I am finally getting to that! This lady's energy is so cool, positive and upbeat. The main takeaways I got from this was about having a varied visual diet (seeking visual representation of as many body types as possible, though I started extending this to seeking as many pole performance styles as possible), and having courage references (when you do something that makes you feel brave, file it away and pull it back out when you're not feeling brave).

5 replies

Arcsis · 1/31/2016
This is an awesome video! But good god, if you want to keep your blood pressure down, don't read the comments. >:|
Arie · 1/31/2016
She was wonderful! Her story about seeing different types of bodies in burlesque and learning to love her own sounds a lot like the experience I've had with pole. Seeing different body shapes look beautiful pole dancing has done wonders for my body image; I'm finally comfortable in my skin. I was heavily involved in another form of dance prior to poling, and although the community would promote loving your body as it is, I couldn't help but notice that I didn't see a variation of body type, which had a terrible effect on me. Well…Thank goodness for pole.
33barbwire · 1/31/2016
Arcsis - you said not to, and I should've listened. I checked the comments because I usually never pay attention to youtube comments. Now I remember why I don't do that. Two comments in I was like, yeeaaaah no.
Veena · 2/2/2016
Thank you for sharing this!!
JarahHunnie9406 · 2/2/2016
Omg I love this!!!