what style of dance best complements pole?
Athena30 started this discussion ·
Hello everyone, I was considering enrolling in dance classes at some point. What style of dancing aka hip hop, jazz, ballet would most complement or improve pole dancing? A good illustration of this point is a ballet dancer learning to pole dance. A ballet dancer can bring a lot of great skills to pole like balance and posture, fluidity, rhythm and timing. Pole Dancing is more of an athletic or sensual dance style, so ballet dancers can encounter problems too. They are usually not used to being sensual or very athletic, their bodies may be "stiff" as opposed to loose, their weight is often lifted as opposed to grounded, etc. This may result in the dancer looking like they are still dancing ballet while they are trying to pole dance. This makes learning pole challenging, and possibly frustrating (but well worth it!). I read the above somewhere and it inspired me to start this thread
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