A pole-dancing Queen of the Night

A pole-dancing Queen of the Night

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norman lebrecht

February 03, 2023

There had to be one, right?

Comments

  • Jeff says:

    Ok so I will be the first one to say it, with an exasperated sigh of course. This is not pole dancing. This is a form of acrobatic art that has been around for quite some time and has no sexual history or connotations associated with it whatsoever. I don’t know why I keep coming back to this website.

  • Michal Kaznowski says:

    At last Boris Johnson finds something to watch at the opera 😉

  • Vienna calling says:

    This isn’t pole dancing. She sings Queen of the Night in Berlin, Houston, Köln, Wiesbaden and lots of other places. Why not mention that?

  • Player says:

    If it is LGBT pole-dancing, then it must be ok?

  • Emil says:

    That’s not pole dancing (as indicated by the absence of a pole). It’s aerial silks.

  • Flora says:

    Not wishing to be a pedant, but this is not pole dancing – this Queen of the Night is an aerialist . . .

  • Allen says:

    There is no pole involved here, so technically this is not pole-dancing. Please update the offensive title as soon as we figure out the correct term for what this aerial acrobatics is really called.
    Secondly, why Norman have you posted a link to a YouTube video from a channel that has merely copied the video from the artists’s original channel? Surely there must be some copyright infringement here. At least it would be polite to support the artist by clicking on the original video on her channel:
    https://youtu.be/hOvQ6GlH3Vk

  • Ben Andres says:

    That isn’t pole dancing, it’s aerial silks, which requires some serious athleticism. This is really pretty impressive.

    • Jess says:

      True, though pole artists are equally extremely athletic and most aerialists are familiar with pole dance as well since the technique and poses are very similar. But there is no doubt that there are zero poles in this impressive aerial silks act. For an article that’s only one sentence long, you’d think they’d fact check it before publishing..

      • RPMS says:

        Quite. The one sentence manages to be both inaccurate and sneeringly sexist. Pole-dancing of any variety is a feat of enviable athleticism. I imagine that few aerialists will have the space at home to practise with the hanging props, and the pole’s a good alternative. Sure wish I could do it – though nobody would want to see it, either for artistic or other gratification!

  • jim says:

    Nine comments so far on a *checks notes* music website and nobody seems to have noticed the singing…

  • honesty says:

    The hottest thing I’ve seen since Yuja playing Rachmaninoff.

  • M2N2K says:

    If what we hear is really her singing, then this multitasking feat is very impressive indeed, whatever it’s called.

  • Will says:

    This site calls her “A pole-dancing queen of the night,” but she is an aerialist and opera singer.

    A “pole-dancer”? In a video with no pole? Even Freud would blush.

    You, however, are a cliché older than aerialism. A sad, pervy old man, craving attention online and seeking sexuality in anything he cannot understand.

    Spend less time fantasizing about opera singers as sex workers, and more time examining yourself, and maybe someday you won’t embarrass everyone with your ignorance.

  • RPMS says:

    Six comments to date point out that this is not pole-dancing. Let’s see if the author retracts, amends, or apologises. So far, his only reply suggests that’s unlikely. As does the thinly veiled misogyny scattered through a number of other recent posts (and elsewhere for years). Well, I guess we can’t expect the misogyny to be corrected, but factual errors, surely?

  • Anonymous Bosch says:

    Uh, I always thought that Pole dancing was referred to as the Polka.

  • noteliner says:

    I showed this to a friend and he was like: Does she have to? Good question actually. Anyhow, you can hear where she’s getting into trouble vocally – because of or despite the gymnastics?

  • I SAY says:

    Disgusting. Poor Mozart, dragged through the mud yet again. This Krause woman must be utterly desperate for attention; too bad we’ve given her any here.

  • Potpourri says:

    Cirque du Soleil: The Opera. Will it open in Las Vegas?

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