VERTICAL TANGO - CHECK THIS OUT!!

Check out this video, I found it via Facebook and was absolutely amazed!  Tango on the pole!!!

ALESIA VAZMITSEL WORKSHOP

On Saturday I was lucky enough to secure a place on a Masterclass with the World Pole Dancing Number 3, Alesia Vazmitsel.  Alesia is known for her graceful and elegant dance style, and her EXTREME flexibility!  The Masterclass was organised by the London Academy of Poledancing, and consisted of LAPD students, Melissa and Alexe (instructors) and then there was little old me!

We worked for about 5 hours in total, and the second half particularly, was brutal.  I have bruises in places I didn't know I had muscles!!  There's a full photo album of the day on my Facebook, and Alesia's performance is on my youtube channel (www.youtube.com/lucycropper).   Here's a picture or two for now:

CHRISTMAS POLE PARTY!!!!

Just a reminder about the Christmas party.....which I hope ALL of you will be attending!!
The party is being held at the Club (Inspirations Health Club) on Friday 11th December.  Proceedings kick off at 7pm, with an hour of pole play.  Then between 8 and 9pm there will be performances from both students AND instructors!!  Your chance to get your own back after all those assessments!  If you'd like to perform, please do let me know and I'll get your name on the list.  Then finally, between 9 and 10pm, there will be some pole 'Tag Team' - you'll get the chance to show off 3 or 4 of your best moves, then the next person will be up! 

We'll have a few guests at the party - Janette our wonderful Ann Summers representative (with an amazing array of goodies for you to look at), Becky our in-house photographer, hopefully Sarah Clark, a fabulous Rigby and Peller trained bra-fitter, and I'm still working on others.... :)

Tickets are £10 for members and £15 for non-members (ladies only please) and include wine and some buffet nibbles.  Please feel free to bring friends who are polers OR not - anyone is welcome. 

Please do let me know asap if you'd like tickets as, for health and safety reasons, I will have to limit numbers.

Now you just have to worry about what to wear........!!!

MORE STUDENT PICTURES

Hello Polers!  Quick update for you, I just HAD to share some of these amazing pictures with you from last night's lessons - the girls really pushed the boat out and we got some great shots.  You can see all of them on my Facebook pages (just search Lucy Cropper) but here are a few of my favourites:

WEDNESDAY 1
Lucy's Scorpio

Natalie's Backdrop

Justine's Inverted Crucifix

Tanya's Sit

And finally, a totally awesome group shot

WEDNESDAY 2
Jemma and the Birthday Girl being Horizontal...

Alex Nye's first ever Broken Arrow!!

And the girls rock out the group shot the way only they know how!!  What a lesson!

Ones to watch....

We often talk in class about other pole dancers, and videos that we’ve seen, and demonstrations of new moves. I thought it would be good just to direct you to some of the girls that I watch regularly who I think are really superb – if you get a chance to view them, let me know what you think. Hopefully it will give you lots of inspiration and motivation to practice practice practice!!



Karol – This young lady from the US is an amazing trickster. She shows amazing strength and is always coming up with new moves.
http://www.youtube.com/user/REDKE71


Sarah Cretul is one to watch. She doesn’t appear to have her own channel but you can search YouTube on her name and see lots of the work she’s done.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sarah+cretul&search_type=&aq=f

Alethea Austin – amazing dancer. Very flexible, does amazing floor work.

http://www.youtube.com/user/aletheaaustin

Felix Cane. The one and only, my absolute idol. This woman is utterly amazing to watch. 2009 World Championships winner, and an ex-stripper, she typifies what we all love about pole dancing – grace, elegance, strength and definitely the wow factor.
http://www.youtube.com/user/felixpoledancing


Karen Chaundy. We first saw Karen at the British Isles Pole Dancing Championships in Essex. She’s an amazing performance, and worth watching for tips on stage presence and presentation of a dance.
http://www.youtube.com/user/karenBODYBARRE

Student Videos

Hello all ... how are you?  All is back to normal here now after my break, and the last couple of weeks have been full of assessment dances in lessons.  A couple of our students have been kind (and brave!) enough to let us post their assessment videos, so here they are for you.  Both girls are at Level 4, and did a fantastic job.  If anyone else would like their videos posted, please do let me know! 

Jemma Carman's assessment video:



Angela Vaughan's assessment video:

MISS MINNIE'S BURLESQUE WORKSHOP

Hello all!!  I've been on a two week annual leave break, just spending some time at home, catching up with friends and trying to get some pole practice in! 

As some of you may know, in September we ran the first workshop of four of Miss Minnie's Introduction to Burlesque Dancing.  We've done two workshops so far, and it is SO much fun...and much, much harder work than any of us expected!  Here are some pictures for those who didn't manage to attend....

Pictures from Workshop One - Walking and Posing

The warm up:

The amazing Miss Minnie....

Workshop Two - Fans and Gloves

Wooohooo!!!  'Naked' ladies!!

So far, the course has been utterly amazing, but much harder work physically than any of us had imagined!! You can see more of Miss Minnie at her website:  http://www.elegantbellydance.co.uk/ and if you'd like to be included in the next set of workshops, do please let me know!!!  Keep checking back to see the next set of photographs from Workshop Three on 1st November.