A place for you and your dance friends to keep all your pole class notes, ideas, inspirations, plans and contacts in one place. Also makes the perfect gift journal for your pole friends, instructors, and pole enthusiasts you meet. Sections include: Climbing, Spins, Levels, Instructor Notes, Challenges & Goals, Practice & Routine Dates, Competing, Achievements & Awards, Music List... and more surprises inside!Sections divided with original artwork pages. Can be used for any sport competition, but is themed toward pole dancers.

This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes.

Pole Dance Fitness is a guide to performing the best pole dance exercises to create one intense workout. The book contains specific information, practical descriptions, and full-color photos designed to help the reader understand the best approach for each exercise, movement, trick, or spin. Included also are detailed exercise sets to create your own best workout as well as information on stretching before and after performing the pole dance tricks. The workouts are designed to progress as your conditioning and fitness progresses to lower the risk of injury. Technical notes for each pole figure and spin relate to its level of difficulty so you do not find yourself performing an exercise that is beyond your ability. Not only a workout, but the unique composition of the pole dance transitions combine to create different dance and acrobatic routines so not only will you improve your body posture and alignment and your overall fitness, you will have a great time doing it!

Pole Dancing Series: Book 2 Are you ready to step up your pole dancing game? Some moves are simple, others are harder. This book will give you the challenge you desire by teaching you some amazing intermediate moves. Here is some of the new things you will master: How to do a shoulder mount How to invert More complex spins to try out Fun inverts you'll enjoy Extra floorwork and slides to add to your routines Going from beginner to intermediate is the hardest jump in pole dancing. This is where most people stop. But not you! Once you get these moves down, you'll soar through the air like never before.

Pole Dancing Series: Book 1 Have you ever imagined yourself pole dancing? Have you ever caught yourself looking at a pole dancer and wishing it was you doing these amazing tricks? Fortunately, there is a way to, and this book will show you just how to get started. You will learn about some amazing and mind-blowing beginner activities to help you with your pole dancing journey, including the following: How to do the basic walk-around the pole easier How to climb the pole and overcoming your fear of it Basic spins to take your pole dancing to the next level Sexy slides to make you look like a superstar Pole dancing combines art and exercise. If you can imagine yourself as a "fit artist" then this sport is for you!

“I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.” So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy’s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women’s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe’s Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this renaissance of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies confounds ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities.

Exploring dance from the rural villages of Africa to the stages of Lincoln Center, Judith Lynne Hanna shows that it is as human to dance as it is to learn, to build, or to fight. Dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the body: it is at once organized physical movement, language, and a system of rules appropriate in different social situations. Hanna offers a theory of dance, drawing on work in anthropology, semiotics, sociology, communications, folklore, political science, religion, and psychology as well as the visual and performing arts. A new preface provides commentary on recent developments in dance research and an updated bibliography.