The lovely and talented Beth Haney of Los Flamencos
Wasn’t planning on going to Venus Envy this night, but Mallarie called me to tell me that I had to get footage of the “pole-dancers.” For some reason when she said pole-dancers, I pictured chicks dancing on stilts. Now at Venus Envy the night before, I noticed this girl who’s billed as “The Queen of the Pole” at the Hustler Club, but I didn’t put two and two together. It was in fact her and another girl, with a portable stripper pole (who knew they even made those) performing under the name Gravity Plays Favorites; a phrase which applies to them in numerous ways. When I saw this girl at the Hustler Club, I had always wondered what her story was. This chick did not learn all these tricks at the Hustler Club. I swear to God, she has to be an ex figure skater or gymnast, but an athlete no doubt. She can do things on a pole that I’ve never seen done by anyone not trained by Bella Karoly.
The Dadaists believed that found objects put into an artistic context immediately become art. By that same rationale, why can’t pole-dancing taken out of the strip club and placed in a feminist art show become feminist art?
Dude, she is so fired.
What a cunt! Did you stop filming?
Where’s the respect, seriously? That would be the last time I do a favor for someone so inconsiderate.
If you want to see good pole dancers, go to Guam when a carrier is there. Girls come and audition from all over the US and Asia to get into these strip clubs. Some of these girls are able to sustain all year on one work week in Guam if a carrier is there. I’ve never seen a girl climb up a pole while upside down till I was in Guam. Crazy shit.
As far as the camera thing, I feel ya man. Utter bs.
Reminds me of one time you and I were at the Gothic Coffee house………..
No, iI kept shooting.
I don’t know if her request that I stop filming got recorded or how bad the camera moves when she pushed it. I couldn’t even watch the footage, I was so pissed.
Guam, huh?
I’ve never been outside the U.S. I was thinking Paris first, but I could do Guam.
I’ve always wanted to learn how to do pole-dancing (and was never sure where to learn…)…I think in the right context, it could easily be feminist art, as long as womyn being sexy can be feminist art (which I think it can).
What I like about their inclusion was that it showed that Venus Envy is open-minded and feminist in the best sense of the word.
I could have easily seen then saying “Strippers? We don’t want any strippers.”