Pole Dance: Pole Club All Levels Competition @ Pole Dance Academy
Since my last post, Pole Dance Academy opened an amateur competition for their pole students.
I signed up for it and there's 22 days to go. I love the surge of butterflies in my stomach that I get when I see the latest email announcement.
What has happened so far?
Song choice: I'm going for a song that's fun and makes me think "happy and smiles". While I love being sexy, I didn't want to focus on showcasing a sexual confidence on stage. I wanted stage presence to be easy and what's easier than smiling?
It's hard to smile when you're grunting through pole moves, but, it's far easier for me to try and make the crowd smile back, than to look at me with desire, haha. A bubbly, pop song it is.
Theme: Is 85% complete. The main costume has arrived, though I'll have to add a lot of sticky tape so that my bits don't fall out when I do my moves. I'm also planning on buying a new pair of pole shoes to match. It'll only be my second pair! My standard, black 6-inch Pleasers have done me wonders these past couple of years. The patent black is chipped in many places where they've hit floor or slammed into metal pole. I deserve something new when I dance at this competition ;)
Choreography: My favourite part of competition preparation. I think I went through 3 drafts, but everything is now set. I have it memorised and find myself walking around the light poles on station platforms while I wait for the train, humming the song, and counting 5-6-7-8. The moves are pretty basic, but I do execute a move that I haven't been taught yet in my classes. I feel very proud of myself.
Practice: Unfortunately, muttering and memorising the routine is very different to actually dancing it. I don't break a sweat when I think about it, but I grunt and groan when I pull myself up and down the pole, doing my combos. I'm practising tonight and I sure hope my strength and endurance has been building up. The dance isn't flawless yet. While most of flawlessness comes from memorisation of what to do next, it's now the repetition of doing the dance, that will help me figure out when to breathe, when to make sure my toes are pointed and my body has line.
It's so very exciting.
Nicole
I signed up for it and there's 22 days to go. I love the surge of butterflies in my stomach that I get when I see the latest email announcement.
What has happened so far?
Song choice: I'm going for a song that's fun and makes me think "happy and smiles". While I love being sexy, I didn't want to focus on showcasing a sexual confidence on stage. I wanted stage presence to be easy and what's easier than smiling?
It's hard to smile when you're grunting through pole moves, but, it's far easier for me to try and make the crowd smile back, than to look at me with desire, haha. A bubbly, pop song it is.
Click to viewTheme: Is 85% complete. The main costume has arrived, though I'll have to add a lot of sticky tape so that my bits don't fall out when I do my moves. I'm also planning on buying a new pair of pole shoes to match. It'll only be my second pair! My standard, black 6-inch Pleasers have done me wonders these past couple of years. The patent black is chipped in many places where they've hit floor or slammed into metal pole. I deserve something new when I dance at this competition ;)
Choreography: My favourite part of competition preparation. I think I went through 3 drafts, but everything is now set. I have it memorised and find myself walking around the light poles on station platforms while I wait for the train, humming the song, and counting 5-6-7-8. The moves are pretty basic, but I do execute a move that I haven't been taught yet in my classes. I feel very proud of myself.
Practice: Unfortunately, muttering and memorising the routine is very different to actually dancing it. I don't break a sweat when I think about it, but I grunt and groan when I pull myself up and down the pole, doing my combos. I'm practising tonight and I sure hope my strength and endurance has been building up. The dance isn't flawless yet. While most of flawlessness comes from memorisation of what to do next, it's now the repetition of doing the dance, that will help me figure out when to breathe, when to make sure my toes are pointed and my body has line.
It's so very exciting.
Nicole