“Get your spots ready for butterfly,” Barre and Pole owner Tekla Kostek tells her students during a pole tricks class last Wednesday. The eight women stand two-to-a-pole and watch as Kostek ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Body Shop Pole Fitness, a “supportive and empowering community” that teaches pole fitness, dance classes, Burlesque and more, held its first class on Thursday. Mindy ...

This year at the Charlotte Pride Festival, Whitney Ann was more excited than ever to attend. Her pole dancing studio, Pole Body and Arts, was one of the sponsors of the event, and had a booth there.

Skinner felt an immediate connection to pole dancing after taking her first introductory class at Body and Pole in New York City. "I don't know how else to say it, but it's just really amazing," says ...

The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio’s wide, mirrored space is punctuated by gleaming silver poles that extend from floor to ceiling, and the purple walls are ...

My legs are spread open in the instructor’s face as I attempt a basic wrist sit move (where you grip the pole with one hand under your butt, then kick your legs wide open), and she’s telling me off ...

On a breezy autumn night in Spanish Harlem, the art of pole dancing was on full display at the “Body Art” showcase. Pole dancers converged on Camaradas El Barrio on 1st Avenue to celebrate the human ...

Earlier this year, I was reunited with one of my first loves—pole fitness. Back in March, I attended my first pole dancing class since my local studio closed in the fall of 2016, and it felt like a ...

There's a reason pole athletes look so toned. "Pole fitness requires a lot of upper-body strength, core, and abductor muscles," Laura Giromini Arrigoni, an XPOLE group fitness instructor at Crunch, ...

If you've ever searched for "pole dancing classes near me NYC," here are 5 spots around the city where you can find a fun, full-body workout. Even if you have every spin studio and boxing workout in ...