Hey Steemers!
Formerly reserved for strippers, "pole dancing" is nowadays a sport discipline in its own right and open to all.
More and more women are practicing this activity which is now called the pole dance fitness, more politically correct than lap dance. There are now twenty schools in France, with an ever greater success!
On stage, the acrobatic figures are linked with a disconcerting natural. No strippers, but real gymnasts. The movements are sensual, but not seductive. The choreographies, rigorous and timed!
The origins of pole dance date back to the early 20th century in Canada. Troops of fairgrounds moved from town to town. In one of the small tents they installed, Hoochie-Coochie dancers, a sensual dance born in North America, made people wait between two numbers.
The central mast of the small tent first constituted a simple support for the dancers, who then integrated it into their dance. In the 50s, pole dance became a striptease in burlesque cabarets.
Discipline had its golden age in the 70s and 80s in the USA and Canada, and then extended to the United Kingdom and Australia. It is this last country that makes it a sport discipline, with the opening of schools and the beginning of the competitions.
It was in the early 90s that women began practicing pole dance. Since the 2000s, a series of associations and competitions have emerged, with a dual objective: to recognize the pole dancing as a sport, and eventually to integrate it into the Olympic Games.
To do this, the International Pole Sports Federation strives to erase the erotic image of pole dance by codifying the discipline and advocating a complete training of teachers.
No doubt, this "acrobatic dance" is above all a sport that requires endurance, agility and strength, two hours of pole dance equivalent to 6 hours of fitness !
Thanks for reading!
