Her routine earned her third place, behind second-place winner Shelly Lamb (no relation to Kira) from San Francisco. Las Vegas yoga teacher and silk trapeze dancer Amy Raven, 29, dazzled the crowd with her signature move, "the yogini." Holding onto the pole only by her armpit, she grabbed her ankles in the yoga "bow pose." Top routines ‘Anything’s better than empty’: This store in a struggling California downtown is managing to thrive.Man gets 2 years in prison for stealing plants worth $150,000 from California state parks.Why did everyone in my household get COVID-19 except me?.Boichik Bagels, Manresa Bread and more head to Bay Area Peninsula.49ers star Nick Bosa is the great-grandson of one of history's most feared mobsters.Earth’s tallest mountain is in Hawaii.Wastewater data suggests COVID may not have peaked yet in 3 Bay Area spots.All performers had 90 seconds to perform a minimum number of tricks: two spins, an inversion, a three-second inner thigh hold, three-second splits, and 20 seconds of floor work.ĭancers devised their own routines for the three- to five-minute optional round, and were allowed to go barefoot. The first compulsory round was scored much like ice skating. The competition consisted of two 10-point rounds. "That's what's so great about the pole community, it embraces both being sexy and strong," said Christina Kish, co-owner of Poletential studio in Redwood City. That could be the reason behind the rule that all dancers must wear at least 6-inch heels in the compulsory round. And it wasn't even listed because no one felt the need to say it: Absolutely no passing money to the dancers.īut officials aren't blind to the fact that pole dancing's strength is its sultry style. "A lot of people understand and accept aerial fabric for dancing, and it's pretty much a similar art form but with a pole," she said.īecause pole dancing is still somewhere between cabaret and athleticism, judges came up with some rules of decorum:
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"These competitions open people's eyes to what it is pole dancers do," said judge Kira Lamb, a professional dancer and aerialist who has toured with P. In the past few years, pole dancing has emerged as a popular fitness class, and fans are already studying the YouTube videos of the genre's first pole stars such as the first national champion, Jenyne Butterfly, and Miss Pole Dance Australia Felix Cane.
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