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I am one of the very few male gay pole dancers of colour who regularly competes, performs and runs their own pole business who is of ethnic minority and of colour.
I’m so blessed to be able to do what i love full time teaching and performing pole and aerial all over Europe and have had so many amazing opportunities from performing at super clubs in Ibiza to corporate high society events around the UK as well as providing a fabulous fun fitness outlet in the midlands where previously the once deprived area the studio has become a fantastic outlet for youth and adults in the community and beyond, holding many charity shows and fundraisers for organisations that are close to my heart and I volunteer for regularly such a the Birmingham lgbtq and help Birmingham homeless.
I’m so honoured to be amongst most inspiring instructors.
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Being a male pole dancer in this city carries an additional set of complexities, and it is for this reason that we invited Leon Yee, a local male pole dancing professional, to share with us his experiences.
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Now aged 25, Leon first encountered pole dancing six years ago. Leon was captivated by the strength, precision and sensuality exhibited in the movements.
Each dancer, with their own lived experience at the intersection of queerness, sex work and BIPOC identity, exploring sexuality, gender, the gendered expectations of pole dance, art and community.
The choreography and design of the show has been collaboratively produced by the dancers over five months, who were guided by choreographers Oryx and Sela Vai to question and explore their “genders, sexualities, experiences of desire” and the ways that the dancers move and communicate in their worlds.
“By centering our queer, POC, and sex worker bodies as vessels of our lived experiences, Fxckery has become a joyous celebration of queer sensuality and a call to claim the right to self-representation both individually and collaboratively,” they said.
“We invite you into this intimate space where we explore what it means to be human, to be sexual and to be queer.”
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Hi my name is Jack Scott-Lee my stage name is AERIALJACK and I run my own pole and aerial circus school in the West Midlands AERIAL JACKS POLE AND CIRCUS ACADEMY.
Leon has been invited to perform at concerts for Hong Kong artists including Joyce Cheng and Vincy Chan.“Although our existence is accepted in pop-culture, many guys are still too self-conscious to immerse themselves in our world”. A body of defined, muscular contours. “However, the worst kind of judgement often comes from oneself”.
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Despite having no major dance experience, Leon was hooked after his first class. Characterised by flamboyant high heels and feminine choreography, it’s a risqué style that borrows elements from striptease. “There will always be people who think male pole dancers are inappropriate”, he says. A wonderful sport that requires both strength and coordination from every part of your body”.
We seek to upend these dynamics by platforming POC, visibly queer, and sex worker artists that are usually erased from images of pole dance in studios and in clubs.”
Across three nights, from Thursday March 2 until Saturday March 4, the show will take place at Erskineville’s PACT Centre for Emerging Artists.
Fxckery is unlike any other performance by Club Chrome, who have graced the stage across Sydney’s premier arts and events spaces, including Soft Centre, Vivid Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Queer Art After Hours, House of Mince, Heaps Gay, Sydney Solstice and DEiFY, among others.
“Unlike previous shows we’ve done, where individual dancers come up one after the other to perform, this show has given us the opportunity to experiment and push our art further than we ever have before,” they said.
Over the course of the one-hour show, Club Chrome’s eight dancers – cilla, Eva Berlin, Linhqu, Mutant Dysphoria, Oryx, Sela Vai, Salem Serene and Thurman – will perform onstage across three poles.
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