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Word associations with the labels ‘pole artist’ and ‘social researcher’. So we first invited everyone to write a key word they associate with the labels ‘social researcher’ and ‘pole artist’ and stick them on a wall.
To do this, we needed to involve audience members in the conversation from the moment they walked through the door. Image: Julia OertliĪ key intention for this event was to get people thinking about their implicit assumptions – both in relation to a high-level report such as the one commissioned by the BBC Woman’s Hour as well as the widespread (and often harmful) assumptions about pole dance as an art form. The panel (from left to right): Rachel Tolzman, Julia Griggs, Yasmeen Akhtar, Allison Dunatchik and Ayana Patton. Could we somehow combine the two?ĭesigning this event involved quite a few conversations between the social researchers, pole artists and our wonderful facilitator, Yasmeen Akhtar from TrustLab, to work out how we might navigate a public conversation that engages with both high-level UK-wide data and the lived experiences of female pole artists in Islington – as well as a pole dance performance by Miss Pole Dance UK and Islington resident, Rachel Tolzman. When Ayana Patton from the Persepolis Pole Project got in touch a few weeks later with an idea for an event on the experience of female pole artists in Islington – also on International Women’s Day – we got curious. After reading the report, we contacted the lead authors, Julia Griggs and Allison Dunatchik from NatCen Social Research, to invite them to discuss the findings with us on International Women’s Day 2018. In September 2017, the BBC Woman’s Hour released a report that rated Islington the worst place in Britain to be a woman. In a very small way, this event was an attempt to create a space for dialogue, discovery and connection in Islington. In a time of tense political debate, social divisions and filter bubbles, spaces where we can meet each other in an open way, with compassion and trust can help us heal relationships fraught by judgement, prejudice and ignorance. What happened on the evening of the 8 th March was a uniquely rich conversation between perspectives that may seem very different on the surface but share many similar hopes, concerns, interests – and a genuine curiosity about each other. Sounds unusual? That’s what we thought too, at first. On International Women’s Day 2018 we hosted an event that brought together academic analysis with pole dance. The event, a vaudeville-style show featuring burlesque and aerial performers, has raised over $4,200 to date for conversation between social researchers and pole artists about being a woman in Islington In 2013, she opened up her own pole dance studio, Studio Spin, in Lancaster, PA.įollowing her love for producing events, she wanted to raise money for Breast Cancer and hosted the first Save The Tassels in October of 2015. The show successfully ran for three years. In 2011, Rachel began producing Kinetic Poetry - a theatrical fusion of acrobatic dance and slam poetry that took place at Albright College in her hometown of Reading, PA.
In 2012, she choreographed a burlesque scene for the dark short film, “Princess Dancer.” Rachel is an AFAA certified group fitness instructor, has trained with some of the top pole dancers in the world and continues her training to stay up-to-date on pole safety. She has been featured on VH1, music videos and film and performs regularly for special events, night clubs and fundraisers. When she’s not busy with pole, you can find her working on film sets, both behind and in front of the camera. Rachel began competing and performing in 2011 and has collected a plethora of awards since. Having a passion for dance and adrenaline all her life, pole dancing seemed like the next best thing! And whether it’s jumping out of perfectly good airplanes or flipping upside down on street poles, she loves being up in the air! She took to pole very quickly and started teaching just four months later! She hails from a diverse background of step aerobics, gymnastics, kickboxing and extreme sports.
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She got the idea that pole dancing provided a great workout from a TV show. She began pole dancing in 2009 as a new years resolution.