River has years of experience draining wallets and breaking hearts on stage stripping at the club. This choreo workshop taps into their vault of slutty spins and sassy floorwork for an unapologetically seductive sequence designed to put your audience under your spell! Choreography is geared toward advanced beginner to intermediate dancers with some experience on spin pole and modifications will be available to help students find variations that feel appropriately challenging - no inverting required! At the end of class students will break into two groups to dance the choreo for each other and have the option to film their dance.

Prerequisites: jasmine, wrist seat grab, pole sit, basic and side climb

Bring: heels (boots recommended for extra grip, heels not absolutely required but recommended), pole grip, an outfit that makes you feel slutty

Workshop: Captivate the Camera - Trinity Pole Studio in Kirkland | 105 Min

Description: In this workshop River will teach you how to slay your pole dance videos and work with you to create one! Class starts with a dancey full body warm up. Then we will move into the lesson on how to create engaging pole dance videos with whatever tools you already have, which includes tips and tricks River has learned both dancing in and filming many pole videos covering key tips for lighting, angles, simple editing and dance storytelling. Split into two groups, we will practice each technique using whatever smart phone or camera you bring to class. River will provide a hand out sheet with all the information + bonus tips so you can come back to it later. After the lesson each student will solo freestyle and be professionally filmed by River while the other students watch and cheer them on. All workshop attendees will get the full recording of their freestyle emailed to them after class, there will also be an option to pay an additional $50 to River directly for a package of 3 edited reel style videos as well as the full recording. This class time takes advantage of the beautiful lighting created by the skylights in the studio during the day. If you want to see examples of River’s videography work head over to their media website skycladstudio.com!

What to wear/bring: Smart phone or camera, water bottle, your favorite pole grip if you like to use it, whatever you want to wear for your freestyle video! You are welcome to bring two outfits, one for the warmup and lesson and one for your video and change in between. If you have a tripod for your phone or camera, bring it but not required.

Accessibility: since the dancing in this class is all freestyle based you can accommodate yourself and find dance that feels good for your body! Class will involve some sitting on the floor while other students are dancing but option to sit in the lounge area during this section if needed.